St Marks Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Mark with it's gold interior. The remains of Saint Mark who wrote one of the books of the bible and met Jesus is buried here. During the crusades, his body was stolen from Constantinople in a pickled pork barrel and brought here.

The interior has millions of tiny mosaic tiles that are covered in gold leaf.

  These full size bronze horses were part of the booty taken from Constantinople in 1204. They are believed to be 2000 years old and used to be outside St Marks. The replicas can be seen in the top picture at the bottom of the great window.

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