Rarely has the theft of a person’s body produced such magnificent results. An imaginative collaboration between Byzantine artistic excellence and Venetian piety and ambition, the basilica of Saint Mark in Venice is a monument of breathtaking splendour and a golden abode for doges, emperors, saints, and angels.
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A tour by
Leonidas Argyros
A grumpy man with a Ph.D. He is fascinated by words; when he sees them forming beautiful sentences he feels like an apprentice wizard who just produced fancy potions out of cauldrons full of frog legs and tears of bats.
