Sestiere San Marco
Historic core district wrapped by the Grand Canal, built around the smuggled relics of a stolen saint.
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This guide to Sestiere San Marco in Venice begins in Alexandria in the year 828, where two Venetian traders, Buono from Malamocco and Rustico from Torcello, bargain with a monk guarding the body of a revered saint. It follows their scheme to get the relics past the harbor's customs officers and the perilous voyage home, threading in the young city's hunger for a holier patron than the one it already had. Best heard standing in the square, looking up at the district's winged-lion emblem.
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