![]() Mark’s Basilica towers high above the square The golden mosaics inside St. According to the legend, they snuck them past the (Muslim) guards by hiding them under layers of pork in barrels. Mark the Evangelist, one of the four Apostles, from Alexandria, Egypt. Mark’s Basilica was built on this spot in the 9th century to house very sacred relics-relics that had been stolen! In 828, merchants from Venice stole the body of St. The basilica began with a swashbuckling tale of kidnapping Mark’s Basilica is not the oldest, nor the largest church in Venice
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