Basilica Di San Marco

San Marco 328 30124 Venezia - Italy Phone: (+39) 041 2708311 http://www.basilicasanmarco.it/

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Basilica Di San Marco is a  Historic Sites, with Architectural Buildings,Churche and  History Museum.
The church's Treasure  is kept in the ancient rooms between the church and the ducal palace, accessed by means of a door in the south transept embellished with a 13th century mosaic which, in memory of the fire of 1231, depicts two angels bearing the reliquary of the Cross, miraculously left intact. 
The small vestibule leads, on the left, to the sanctuary and, on the right, to the actual Treasure. In eight niches in the sanctuary walls there are numerous precious reliquaries containing the relics of saints that were gathered from Constantinople to the Holy Land and from places outside the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Treasure consists of an overall  283 pieces  in gold, silver, glass and other precious materials. 
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For  €80 gondola ride is totally awesome

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i would suggest to maintain  cleanly  because the building was dusting.

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