Venice, with its blue sky and always crystal clear sea, in olden times when Europe was swallowed by the grey, the dark and the mist of the early Middle Ages. It`s the end of the 9th century, a vessel with a courageous crew brings back the remains of Saint Mark  from Alexandria to Doge Giustiniano Particiaco, with difficulty, thus its adventure coming to an end.
The magic power of the saint`s remains which protected the community of merchants and tradesmen was known and coveted by the most powerful people, and everybody in Venice celebrates and welcomes in triumph the return of the Saint, in the place where he is its spiritual patron saint.
To honour its power and myth, the Doge Giustiniano Particiaco begins to raise a church and a tower.
The years pass, and 2 centuries later, the doge Domenico Contarini decides to build a basilica, on the edifice which had been raised 200 years before, a basilica that would come to dazzle not only the city, but the whole world, a unique, spectacular, brilliant construction like the thin surface of waters exposed to the sun. People call it “the church of gold”(with good reason) and is a remarkable mix of Italian - Byzantine architecture, an exceptional building, perhaps the greatest in the history of the most beautiful and romantic city on Earth.

2015, more than a millennium since the beginning of the legend…The marvel is still the same and stands loftily, as if telling stories.
In Piazza San Marco, close to the Doge`s Palace there reigns Saint Mark`s Basilica, the main place of worship and the most famous in Venice. The gilded mosaics which cover all the walls with biblical scenes, the huge Greek cross inside it which the whole structure leans on, all the paintings created by artists like Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto or Titian, the mix of sculptures, at which you can hardly decide what to admire first, all are a testimony of the wonders accomplished by mankind, who wrote its history.
It is here that you can see the beauty and you can feel the magic in people…Look!