On the right part of San Marco's Basilica, where it leans on the Doge's Palace, I like to observe the colourful walls made of a real patchwork of large and old marble plates.
And below, Timothy Thompson comment :
Much of the marble cladding on St Mark's was looted from Constantinople's palaces after Venetians seized the city in 1204. So admiring St Mark's marble, you are actually admiring what's left of old Byzantium.
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