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ChurchesFrom: Venice's Top 11 Free Sights
ABOVE: St. Mark's Basin and the Grand Canal with the Dogana (on the tip of Dorsoduro) and the Santa Maria della Salute Church. We've already mentioned the Basilica di San Marco, but there are scores of other churches in Venice that are worth your time. Some have modest admission fees (you can save money with the Chorus Pass), but some are free.
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The largest and
most famous of the no-admission churches is another basilica:
Santa Maria della Salute (shown above and at right), which is near the mouth of the Grand
Canal and the 
A
few smaller churches, such as the Carmini church--also known as Santa
Maria del Carmelo--are also free. (The Carmini church is on its own square near
the Campo Santa Margherita. It shouldn't be confused with the Scuola Grande
dei Carmini, which is nearby.)
On
the island of 
At
other churches, admission may be free out of season, when there aren't enough
visitors to justify having a ticket vendor on duty. (We wandered into the
Gesuati church on a weekend in November, and there was nobody around to
collect the admission fee.) Admission is also free during religious services,
but you'll be expected to grab a spot in a pew and worship instead of wandering
around with a guidebook in hand.