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2. St Mark's Basilica - Wikipedia

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   The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (Italian: Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (Italian: Basilica di San Marco; Venetian: Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.

3. San Marco, Florence - Wikipedia

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   San Marco is a Catholic religious complex in Florence, Italy. It comprises a church and a convent. The convent, which is now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, has three claims to fame. During the 15th century it was home to two famous Dominicans, the painter Fra Angelico and the preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

4. Horses of Saint Mark - Wikipedia

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   The original Horses inside the St Mark's Basilica The replica Horses of Saint Mark. The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).

5. Pala d'Oro - Wikipedia

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   Pala d'Oro viewed in its altarpiece setting. Pala d'Oro (Italian, "Golden Panel") is the high altar retable of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice.It is universally recognized as one of the most refined and accomplished works of Byzantine enamel, with both front and rear sides decorated.

6. St Mark's Campanile - Wikipedia

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   St Mark's Campanile (Italian: Campanile di San Marco, Venetian: Canpanièl de San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.The current campanile is a reconstruction completed in 1912, the previous tower having collapsed in 1902.

7. Saint Mark's relics - Wikipedia

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   Saint Mark was martyred and initially buried in the Baucalis section of Alexandria in Roman Egypt.Coptic theologian Abu al-Barakat Ibn Kabar wrote that "his martyrdom was at the end of Baramuda, Nisan 27, in the reign of Tiberius, and it is said that [his body] was still buried in the eastern church on the shore of Alexandria up to the time when it was taken by craft by some Franks (al-Farang ...

8. Treasury of St Mark's Basilica - Wikipedia

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   Reliquaries and precious objects used for the liturgical functions in St Mark's Basilica were initially kept in various locations within the church. [3] The creation of the treasury seems to date to the early thirteenth century when many objects were plundered by the Venetians from the churches, monasteries, and palaces of Constantinople during the sack of the city (1204) in the Fourth Crusade ...

9. San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio, Rome - Wikipedia

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   San Marco is a minor basilica in Rome dedicated to Saint Mark the Evangelist located in the small Piazza di San Marco adjoining Piazza Venezia. It was first built in 336 by Pope Mark, whose remains are in an urn located below the main altar. The basilica is the national church of Venice in Rome.