The Basilica di Santa Giustina, on the south side of the Prato della Valle, is one of the largest churches in Italy by floor area — a long, brick-faced sixteenth-century basilica with eight domes and a quiet, almost austere interior. It is the seat of an ancient Benedictine community and the resting place of several important early Christian relics, including those traditionally identified as St Luke the Evangelist.
The art highlight is Paolo Veronese's enormous altarpiece of the Martyrdom of Santa Giustina, painted in 1575 and one of his most ambitious religious works. Don't miss the small early-Christian Sacello di San Prosdocimo below the main church — a fifth-century funerary chapel preserved as the basilica's crypt.