The Scuola dei Luganegheri or Luganegeri school is an architecture of Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Giudecca Canal.
The structure dates back to the 17th century; it was acquired by the
Luganegheri confraternity, founded in 1497 and having its liturgical
seat in San Salvador.
The term Luganegheri is the Venetian
equivalent of salumai (whose activity was precisely "slaughter,
packaging and sale of pork; sale of minced meat of bovine origin"), in
1681, who made this building their new headquarters, which until then
she had been in a small school in Rialto. It was restored in 1683.
After the closure, the school underwent interventions that
compromised its original structure.
It is a two-storey building, characterized on the ground floor by
four rectangular entrances surmounted by quadrangular single-lancet
windows; everything has been heavily remodeled and today the entrances
are functional to the catering activity of which the internal rooms on
the ground floor are located, once used to house animals for slaughter.
The elements that make up the façade on the first floor are of
greater importance: two large single-arched single-lancet windows with a
keystone mask placed at the ends, between which, framed by two
tombstones, there is a large niche, designed on the model of the
single-lancet , containing the statue of Sant'Antonio Abate, protector
of the brotherhood.