Greetings all!
In a word, St. Mark’s was amazing.
I liked it more than St. Peter’s (which we’ll get to later), in part because it has an earlier feel with all the Byzantine influences.
Now, I could say with every batch some form of “amazing,” but that gets pretty boring. So, unless there’s something in particular to note, I plan to not put too many comments.
I start with a bunch of exterior pics made while we were waiting around.
Finally, in the last two, we make it inside. Fittingly, I start with floor pictures. This was definitely my favorite floor of the trip.
And probably my favorite ceiling too, though St. Peter’s will have something to say about that.
Note the cool marble in middle left. They split the marble in half to get the mirrored look that is so cool.
Bottom right, and with some of the pictures in the next group, you can see the opening to the crypt where the bones of St. Mark are kept. They don’t let you go down there (for obvious reasons given what happened to St. Nicholas recently), but I really wanted to see it.
You know how sometimes you’re excited about going to visit a place and it doesn’t live up to your expectations.
That will not be St. Mark’s. It will blow you away far more than these 225 pictures will, but even though I’m not a great photographer, you can easily see it’s something, as I said before, amazing.
Venice is on our repeat list and I want to do St. Mark’s again.