San Marco in Boccalama was an island, now submerged, in the
Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It was located between
Campana
Campana (Italian and Spanish for "bell") may refer to:
Places
* Campana Partido, Argentina, a ''partido'' (administrative subdivision) in Buenos Aires Province
** Campana, Buenos Aires Province, a city in Campana Partido
* Campana Island, Capità ...
,
Sant'Angelo della Polvere and the
motte di Volpego. The name derived from the presence of a church dedicated to
St. Mark, and to its location at the mouth the Lama, an old branch of the river
Brenta's mouth.
An oratory existed here from as early as 1013. After 1328
subsidence and erosion made life impossible for the monks, and from 1348 it was used as a common burial place in the wake of the outbreak of the
Black Death in Venice and its neighborhood. The last mentions of the islands date to the 16th century, after which it is likely it had already disappeared.
In the 1990s two medieval ships were found near the submerged island, a ''rascona'' (a flat transport boat) and a
galley, the first example of this type found so far.
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Islands of the Venetian Lagoon
Former islands of Italy