Santa Maria della Celestia

Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo, Santa Maria Celeste or Santa Maria della Celestia was a Roman Catholic church in Venice, facing the Campo de la Celestia in the Castello district, just east of San Francesco della Vigna.

In 1237 it was annexed by a Cistercian nunnery that had moved from Piacenza to Venice, a cell of the Abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba.

In 1581 work began on a rebuild to designs by Vincenzo Scamozzi inspired by Rome's Pantheon.

It housed artworks by Andrea Vicentino, Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Antonio Foler and Domenico Chiesa and the tombs of the humanist Trifone Gabriel, admiral Carlo Zeno and doge Lorenzo Celsi.

[2] The complex was suppressed in 1810 under the Napoleonic regime and transferred to the navy, with the church later demolished and its tombs' remains dispersed at the ossuary of Sant'Ariano.