San Polo & Santa Croce: the Frari Basilica, Scuola Grande di San Rocco & Campo San Polo

The twin sestieri of San Polo and Santa Croce — the oldest continuously inhabited area of Venice, situated on the western bank of the Grand Canal loop — contain the two most important religious buildings in Venice outside San Marco: the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (the Franciscan Gothic church containing Titian's 'Assumption of the Virgin') and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco (the confraternity building whose walls and ceilings were decorated by Tintoretto in a fifty-year programme beginning in 1564).