St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. Credit: Canva After being built as a permanent church in 832, the basilica was burned down in a rebellion in 976. St. Mark’s was rebuilt in 978 but it was a ...

They smuggled the remains to Italy in barrels of pork ... center gable on the exterior of the basilica, you can even see a statue of St. Mark along with Venice's emblem: a lion with wings.

VENICE, Italy -- It's a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of Venice's iconic St. Mark's Basilica safe from seawater-induced erosion: A set of glass ...

VENICE, ITALY - NOVEMBER 13: A view inside the flooded Basilica of St. Mark during an exceptional ... More high tide on November 13, 2019 in Venice, Italy. Venice's second highest tide after 1966 ...

In the atrium of Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica, the red marble bases of ancient columns have been gnawed away. Other plinths are fragmented so badly they must be held in place by makeshift straps.