The church was built in honor of St. Mark the Evangelist, whose remains were stolen in Alexandria, Egypt, by a couple crafty Venetians, intent on bringing him to rest in Venice. (What made them ...

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The floating city is often regarded as a “city of love” and has a romantic air about it, but you’d be surprised by how many ...

Piazza San Marco is an elegant colonnaded ... green space is in short supply in Venice. If the children need to let off steam, or you do, head for the eastern end of island Venice, where 19th ...

It’s de rigueur to do the crossing standing ... St Roch – the richest of Venice's scuole, or charitable brotherhoods. Tintoretto worked at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco for 27 years ...