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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:28:00

The former seat of government of the Republic of Venice for over a thousand years, this Gothic masterpiece on the Piazzetta San Marco is one of the supreme achievements of medieval secular architecture. The palace's famous facade, with its arcade of pointed arches supporting a loggia of quatrefoil tracery above which pink and white marble walls shimmer in reflected light from the lagoon, inverts the conventional expectation of a government building: delicate openwork below, solid mass above. In...