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Other than the really creep relics, the Santa Maria dei Frari was a really amazing place. It’s a huge church that was built by the Franciscans in 1338 and is probably big enough to hold at least 4000 full grown elephants. Here’s a picture of the interior.

Aside from the size of the place, the most striking thing was the altar, which has an amazing painting by Titian, which Hannah says is his masterpiece. She’s usually right, too.

Some more points of interest… among the monuments in the church was this pyramid sculpture, a monument to a sculptor named Canova. Thanks to wikipedia, I just learned that his heart, but not the rest of him is buried there. There’s a picture of the pyramid, not the heart, below. There was also a strange looking thing attached to one of the walls, and when we looked at the plaque underneath it, we realized that it was a German bomb from World War II that had hit the church and not exploded. Nutty.