Venice & the Veneto - San Marco (PDF Chapter)

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This is the San Marco chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guide-book.

The neighbourhood of San Marco is Venice’s oldest and most famous. With the palace, pris-ons, government offices, mint and library crowding around the basilica, Piazza San Marco was the fulcrum of Venetian power and it attracts the majority of visitors today.

join the chorus of gasps rippling through the crowd as you enter Venice’s magnificent Ba-silica di San Marco, looking up to discover angels dancing across 8500 sq metres of glit-tering golden mosaics
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discover over-the-top state rooms, dark secrets, dingy prisons and blockbuster exhibitions behind the rosy façade of the Palazzo Ducale
transport
shout ‘Brava!’ from one of the boxes at Venice’s jewel-box La Fenice for an encore perfor-mance
restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping.

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