If you look closely at the center gable on the exterior of the basilica, you can even see a statue of St. Mark along with Venice's emblem: a lion with wings. Many consider the basilica to be a ...

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Venice's historic Saint Mark's Basilica will need millions of Euros of restoration work after it was flooded this week for just the sixth time in 1,200 years, leaving its delicate marble mosaics ...

I'm not saying you shouldn't go to Venice, but you have to be a bit strategic about it-both for the city's sake and your own. (Feeling like a sardine crammed into a narrow calle blocked by tour groups ...