Outdoor Pitstop
The story
Audio tour · St Mark's Basilica
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You're standing on Saint Mark's Square, in front of St Mark's Basilica, the cathedral of Venice. Look at the five deep doorways along the bottom of the façade and the domes above them. The church looks more like something from Constantinople than from Italy, and that's no accident: it was modelled on the Church of the Holy Apostles there. The basilica is attached to the Doge's Palace. For centuries it was the Doge's own chapel. It only became the cathedral in 1807.
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