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Interior view of San Marco Basilica in Venice, Italy, showing ornate gold mosaics on domed ceilings, arched columns, and visitors standing on the patterned marble floor. San Marco Basilica: altar screen Venice Plate 15: Interior mosaics of St. Mark's, Venice, 11th through 13th centuries. Venice Venice, Italy
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Interior view of San Marco Basilica in Venice, Italy, showing ornate gold mosaics on domed ceilings, arched columns, and visitors standing on the patterned marble floor.
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San Marco Basilica

cathedral, Venice, Italy
Also known as: Basilica di San Marco, Saint Mark’s Basilica
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San Marco Basilica, church in Venice that was begun in its original form in 829 (consecrated in 832) as an ecclesiastical structure to house and honour the remains of St. Mark that had been brought from Alexandria. St. Mark thereupon replaced St. Theodore as the patron saint of Venice, and his attribute of a winged lion later became the official symbol of the Venetian Republic. San Marco Basilica, built beside the Palazzo Ducale, or Doges’...

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