VENICE, Italy — “Every stone is a treasure,” says the technical director of St. Mark’s Basilica’s vestry board, indicating the prized gold-leaf mosaics overhead, the inlaid stone ...

This weekend, on Sunday, April 28, Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in St. Mark’s Square during a one-day trip to Venice, Italy. Afterward, he will privately venerate the relics of St. Mark the ...

Climate activists on Thursday vandalized the facade of the nearly 1,000-year-old St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, reportedly defacing it with mud and chocolate milk as part of an ...

Another of the chapters will be dedicated to the throne in the Basilica of San Pietro di Castello in eastern Venice, the city’s cathedral for several centuries until St Mark’s Basilica took on ...

A view of a floor during a high waters flooded inside the St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Still invisible to the naked eye and the casual visitors, recent flood damage to ...

St Mark’s basilica, the most famous and splendid monument in Venice, is now protected by its own small flood barrier, a fixed wall of glass that prevents water in the square from invading the ...

Culture Culture news Venice’s flood-ravaged St Mark’s Basilica to undergo €3.3 million facelift Imperilled by rising tides for decades, St Mark’s Basilica was dealt a devastating blow in 2019.

It’s a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of Venice’s iconic St. Mark’s Basilica safe from seawater-induced erosion: A set of glass barriers ...

The flood damage to St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice has been put at 5 million euros ...

Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in St. Mark’s Square this Sunday in Venice and then privately venerate the relics of St. Mark the Evangelist inside the basilica.