Yourexclusive, customized private visit to the Scuola di San Rocco will leave you withan only-for-few experience in Venice. Your private guide will take you to theScuola without anyone else inside. The Scuola di San Rocco (Confraternity ofSt. Roch, the protector against the plague, which had struck Venice in thatcentury) was established in 1478 by a group of wealthy Venetian citizensnext to the church of SanRocco,from which it takes its name. The design is similar to other “scuole” in Venice, characterized bytwo halls, one at the first and one at the second floor. In 1564 the great Venetianpainter Tintoretto was commissioned to decoratethe Scuola, and the mostrenowned paintings are those in the Saladell'Albergo.
