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The minor Aegean Islands were taken by various powerful European noblemen, many of whom were Genoese or Venetian, such as Marco Sanudo on Naxos.
Imagine a vast square looking originally something like Venice’s Piazza San Marco, with two-story porticoes running along three sides and the six-columned Temple to Jupiter flanked by ceremonial arches at the north end.
The Romanesque façade makes a striking contrast with the eight Byzantine cupolas and two minaret-like towers around a central Gothic cone-shaped dome, reminiscent of Venice’s Basilica San Marco.
Beyond the wooden Accademia Bridge and the Accademia art museum, the perspective is completed by the magnificent Baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute that has always marked the arrival at (or departure from) Piazza San Marco just across the way.
The Jin (Chin) Dynasty of the 12th century called it Zhongdu (“Central Capital”) and built an imperial palace as well as the Lugou Bridge; known abroad as the “Marco Polo Bridge,” it is still in use.