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What began in a.d. 830 as the Doges’ chapel for the remains of the evangelist Mark, the republic’s patron saint, was rebuilt in the 11th century as a grandiose Byzantine-Oriental basilica influenced by the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople.
Halfway up the wooded road to the Convento de Cristo is the 16th-century Ermida da Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a handsome little basilica in classic Italian Renaissance style.
While he was busy removing the four ancient bronze horses from the basilica’s façade (since returned) along with other art treasures to ship back to Paris, he was said to remark that the Piazza San Marco was “the world’s most beautiful salon. ”
In a front-page editorial the paper criticized the Israeli government's decision to authorize the construction of the mosque opposite the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation.
At the center, Piazza dei Signori is graced by Palladio’s first public work, the Basilica Palladina (1549), not a church at all, but the old Roman concept of a gathering place for the lawcourts and assemby hall of the Gothic Palazzo della Ragione that it encases with a colonnade and loggia.