In the late XVIII century, in the same period that saw the decline and then the end of the Venetian Republic, the San Salvador Convent faced a similar decline that hampered its own survival and was transformed in a barrack for the Napoleon army. After the First World War it was acquired by the local telecommunications company.

Since those years it has remained the main centre for the North-East Italian telecommunications.
In the middle of the 80ies a substantial restoration started with the goal of restoring the artistic wealth of the place and to accommodate a research centre for advanced studies in Information and Telecommunications Technologies.