St Mark’s Basilica, a superb example of the Romanesque-Byzantine style with five cupolas, was built (10th cent.) to house the body of the St Mark the Evangelist
The monumental building, seat of the Arch-Confraternity of San Rocco, was constructed between 1517 and 1560 on the designs of Bartolomeo Bon, but was completed
The Basilica was constructed to commemorate the terrible plague of 1630 -1631 and the consequent votive pronounced by the Doge to obtain the blessing of the Vir
The island of colour: many artists have used art to express the beauty of Burano, even founding a local school shortly before World War I. The colourful palett