Letting pigeons climb all over you is a popular tourist activity. Is this something that Venetians encourage so that they can laugh at stupid tourists?
The campanile. Normally, you can take an elevator up to the top, but it was closed for repairs.
The gate of the campanile:
There were 3 huge flag poles (woops, Wikipedia tells me that these are ships' masts):
I didn't get many good exterior shots of St. Mark's because a lot of it was covered in scaffolding.
The clocktower:
The Procuratie Vecchie bounds the piazza on the north. Usually, this space is jammed with people. While we were there, it was mostly jammed with empty chairs.
Some shots from inside St. Mark's Basilica:
The mosaics:
The Greek Horses:
The presbytery screen:
The mosaic floor:
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