Fall of the Republic of Venice empire. In the Square of St Mark's, a new wing was constructed in what was to be a royal residence for Napoleon: the "Ala Napoleonica", or "Procuratie Nuovissime"; a new avenue was opened in the city, the "Via Eugenia" (renamed "Via Garibaldi" in 1866), named after Napoleon's stepson and viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais. In 1807, the post of Primicerius of St Mark's was suppressed, and the basilica became the cathedral of the Patriarchate of Venice. In 1808, Dalmatia too was annexed to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, and a "Provveditore generale di Dalmazia" was established until 1809, when, following the
San Cassiano, Venice After being removed from Venice the altarpiece was split into a number of fragments. Only three of these were found and these are now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. The church also contains an early 18th-century painting of the "Martyrdom of San Cassiano" by Antonio Balestra. It depicts the saint being attacked by school children, an act which explains why Saint Cassian of Imola is the patron saint of school teachers. San Cassiano, Venice San Cassiano () is a 14th-century Roman Catholic church located in the San Polo "sestiere" of the Italian city of Venice. A church has