Plaza de San Marcos in Venice
The Plaza de San Marcos is located in the heart of Venice. It measures 180 meters long by 70 meters wide and is the only one piazza in Venice, since it is Piazzale rest or fields.
Its construction began in the ninth century by adopting the current size and shape in 1177, 100 years after being paved.
The Plaza de San Marcos is one of the most beautiful places in the world, Napoleon Bonaparte was defined as “the most beautiful room of Europe.”
The square is the lowest place in Venice so that, when there are “aqua high” is the first in flood. When this happens, the authorities placed gateways for transit of citizens and visitors. Depending on the time and, if we’re lucky (or unlucky, depends for whom), we see the square filled with water.
Points of Interest
The most important buildings of the square are St. Mark’s Basilica, Ducal Palace, Museo Correr, the Campanile (the bell tower of the basilica) and the Torre dell’Orologio.
In the upper balcony of the Clock Tower (Torre dell’Orologio), Renaissance style, two bronze Moors play hours. In Epiphany and Ascension leaves every hour a procession of Magi chaired by an angel.
Of note also the Columns of San Marco and San Teodoro by the entrance of the square on the Grand Canal. They were built of granite in 1172 and in that place of public executions were held.
Nightlife