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The altar is placed in an apse raised by two steps. Its stipes are decorated with inlays of colorful marble. In the central part of the altar is a altar by Girolamo Pellegrini (1624 - after 1700) with a scene of the Annunciation. The altar is flanked by Corinthian columns that support a semicircular pediment with a central protruding console. The rear part of the pediment is built of stone blocks on which there are two donor inscriptions. The inscription on the south side is transcribed here. Kudiš believes that the altar was modeled on the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary from the Paduan church of St. Anthony, made by Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), with which Tulić also agrees. He adds similarities with the main altar of the Franciscan church in Zadar and with the former main altar of the church of San Daniele di Castello in Venice, but also similarities with the altars of Giuseppe Sardi and Alessandro and Paolo Tremignon. From this altar, a marble reliquary containing the remains of Saint Victoria was transferred to the altar of the Holy Sacrament in 1709, and arched passages were added to it in the mid-18th century. This altar is considered to be the most significant 17th-century Actarist work in the Diocese of Poreč and Pula.
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