San Marco

Mark Twain wasn't fond of the church archtecture: "Its hoary traditions make it an object of absorbing interest to even the most careless stranger, and thus far [St. Mark's Basilica] had interest for me; but not further. I could not go into ecstasies over its coarse mosaics, its unlovely Byzantine architecture, or its five hundred curious interior columns from as many distant quarries... It was a vast and warty bug taking a meditative walk". - Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad