Chiesa di San Tommaso Apostolo (San Tomio)

The ancient Benedictine women's monastery of St. Thomas the Apostle is founded on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to the Goddess Vesta.

The first mention of the complex is found in a document from the year 837. The toponym San Tomio is also present in a document from 1409. In the 12th century, the Benedictine nuns leave the monastery of St. Tomio which is assigned to the secular clergy and in 1336, the church appears in the list of city parishes. In the 16th century, following restoration work, the so-called "arch of San Tomio", a Roman partition of the portico of the Forum of Piazza Erbe from the 2nd century AD, was recovered.

In 1748 the building was renovated based on a project by the architect Cristofoli. Due to the Napoleonic suppression, the church was sold to Count Francesco Moscardo.

In 1815 the structure changed its use to become the "Morando" theatre, designed by the architect Luigi Trezza but, at the end of a cholera period, the church was reconsecrated and reopened to the faithful on 23 June 1842. Since 1919 the church has been under the administration of the Missionaries Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Combonians), who sponsored its restructuring after the last war.

The building has a gabled façade and a bell tower next to the southern side of the structure. The interior has a single hall architecture with semi-elliptical barrel vaults and a quadrangular presbytery with a flat apse and four semi-chapels at the sides of the nave. The church no longer preserves its ancient artistic splendour, but it is still possible to admire the altarpiece of the Sacred Heart by Giuseppe Zannoni, in the two side lunettes of the presbytery two canvases by Giovanni Caliari and above the entrance portal a canvas representing San Zeno by Napoleone Razzetti.