The Church of San Salvador in Venice was begun around 1508 by Giorgio Spavento, with Tullio Lombardo, Vincenzo Scamozzi and possibly Jacopo Sansovino continuing the work. The infobox credits only Giuseppe Sardi, for the facade, which was added in 1663. The article names no client. Pope Alexander III first consecrated a church on the site in 1177.
The article calls the style Baroque and Renaissance. It is a large hall church made of three Greek crosses in sequence, each with a domed lantern, with a polychrome marble mosaic interior. It holds works by Titian, Francesco Vecellio and Alessandro Vittoria, and a tomb by Sansovino. It gives no materials or dimensions.
A cannonball from an Austrian bombardment in 1849 remains embedded at the base of the facade's left column. The former monastery next door keeps Sansovino's cloisters and now houses telephone company offices. The church is still an active parish. The article gives no hours.
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