Venice Train Station
Venice Railway Station is located in the north-east of Italy. He is best known in society as "Venice Santa Lucia". The term "Venice Railway Station" is incorrect because the Municipality of Venice has two main stations: Venice Mestre Station on the Italian mainland and Venice Santa Lucia Station in the historic city center, 6 kilometers from the coast in the Venetian Lagoon.
The old Church
The history of Venice Railway Station is interesting. The old Palladian Church of Santa Lucia on the Grand Canal was demolished in 1863 to make way for the station, so the saint's name is remembered here, although her body was moved to the nearby church of San Geremia. The current Venice Train Station building was built in a modernist fascist style and designed by Virgilio Vallo, who won a design competition in 1934. However, the construction work in collaboration with Angiolo Manzoni continued slowly and was not completed (by Paul Perilli) after World War II.
The Patron Saint
Saint Lucy was martyred in Sicily in 304, and like Saint Mark, the patron saint of Venice, her body was stolen by the Venetian crusaders and brought to Venice as a trophy. She can be seen inside the glass-fronted altar, dressed but with her mummified arms and legs exposed and wearing a silver mask. Saint Lucy herself came from a wealthy family in Syracuse. She refused marriage proposals and gave her possessions to the poor. The prosecutors sent her to a brothel, but she miraculously remained motionless. Then they tried to burn her, also unsuccessfully, and in the end she was killed by a sword.
Architecture of Venice Railway Station
This beautiful low-rise building does not distract at all from the other architecture that surrounds it. The Venice Railway Station has expanded and receives 82,000 passengers daily on 450 trains. The exit from Santa Lucia Station is one of the greatest impressions of the arrival of tourists: the impressive, constantly busy panorama of the Grand Canal.
The facade of the Venice Train Station has recently been renovated and now looks magnificent with its shining white figures on the roof against the blue sky. The station has an impressively dark Baroque interior, richly decorated, and a ceiling that once had a fresco by Tiepolo, but was destroyed by an Austrian bomb in 1915. The elaborate side chapel houses the grave of the last Doge of Venice, Lodovico Manina.
