The basilica houses the bones of St. Mark, booty from the crusades. It contains 400 square meters of mosaics --like covering a football field with contact lenses!. The floor is also inlaid marble and stunning.
The horses are well traveled loot also. Made at the time of Alexander the Great, to Rome by Nero, to Constaninople by Constantine, to Venice by crusaders, to Paris by Napoleon, to interior of basilica for protection from acid rain. The Pala d'Oro is golden altar piece filled with jewels from the Byzantine Empire.
