Piazza San Marco - details and images
Piazza San Marco is Venice's heart and is considered the reference point for most tourists who visit Venice. Here the most important events take place in Venice. Its origin dates from the ninth century. On the esplanade of San Marco there is a lamp, two small churches and a large orchard that nuns have given a community order in the ninth century to build the seat of government: the Basilica and the Doge's Palace. It was restructured and enhanced to reach today's image in 1177, after a great flood. The square was paved at the end of the thirteenth century with bricks arranged in mosaic form. In 1723 bricks were replaced with a more complex pavement composed of trahite (volcanic rocks) and crossed by dark geometric shapes made of white Istrian stone.
The last paving was done in 1890 due to "degradation and fashion."
The square is surrounded by houses and arcades called "Procuratie" because they lived and worked in these buildings procurators of ancient Venice. Procuratie There are two types: the old and the new. It is worth mentioning the Clock Tower, which dates from the fifteenth century, one of the most famous architectural works in Venice, which locates over an arc that lies at the beginning of one of the liveliest streets full of shops, called Mercer. This astronomical clock shows the gold and enameled metal reliefs and off time also indicates the moon phases and zodiac signs. Above the clock there is a virgin with a baby.
It is also worth to take a walk through the square beneath the arches, to visit luxurious shops and stop for a coffee or chocolate bars in one of the most full of history and Quadri, although prices are high. From a corner of the market, one can admire the bell, which opened in 912, measures 98 meters. It is advisable to climb the bell tower as the top we can enjoy a view of supeba "Bacino de San Marco, a water trough located between Canal Lido, La Giudecca and Grand Canal.
Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco "the most beautiful reception in Europe."
Piazza San Marco is the lowest point in Venice, and because this is the first to be flooded when storms in the Adriatic Sea when it rains or even more.
Address: Piazza San Marco
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