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Located on the sparsely populated island of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, the Church of Santa Maria Assunta (I Gesuiti) is one of the oldest structures in Venice. Originally constructed in the 7th century, what you see now is mostly renovations from the 11th and 12th centuries in the Byzantine style featuring an impressive array of mosaics.