Across the Canale di San Marco, where this sailboat is docked, is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. It is built on an island with the same name that was first occupied by the Romans and then a church in the early 9th century before becoming a Benedictine monastery in 982. The current basilica with its distinctive white façade was finished in 1610. Its adjoining bell tower was built in 1467 but after it collapsed the current campanile was constructed in 1791.