The baroque parish church of St. Euphemia was finished in 1736 after a plan made by the architect Giovanni Dozzi. The sarcophagus of St. Euphemia, which according to legend floated from the distant shores of the Bosporus in the 8th century, is located in the church. The bell-tower of St. Euphemia`s Church, the city`s patron saint, is 59 m high and resembles the campanile of San Marco`s basilica in Venice. A statue of St. Euphemia, several meters high, is placed on the top of the bell-tower, set there in 1758 and restored in 1996.
