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Piazza San Marco, popualrly known as St Mark's Square, is a beautiful and huge square in the heart of Venice, Italy. Napolean rightly called the Piazza San Marco "the finest drawing room in Europe, " as all major historic buildings of Venice are located close to it. The Piazza also offers an excellent base to begin your Venice tour, as it's the focal point of city's water transport system. It's a perfect spot for relaxing and watching thousands of pigeons, or taking a sightseeing of all major tourist attractions of Venice, Italy. In fact, all sightseeing tours of Venice start from the Piazza San Marco.

Though the Piazza San Marco appears as a rectangle, it's actually a trapezium, measuring 175 meters in length. The Piazza has been the scene of some of the most important religious and political activities of the Serenissima as well as the center of Venetian social life for almost a millennium. Its look was also modified several times in the past, and its present form reflects the works of many famous architects such as Sansovino, Longhena, Scamozzi, Rizzo and Tirani.

The Piazza San Marco is the central landmark of Venice, and is a favorite relaxing place for locals, tourists and photographers. While at Piazza, you will find all major attractions of Venice adjacent to it, or at a walking distance. In fact, it's a perfect base to explore the architectural and natural beauty of Venice. You can easily visit the world-famous Grand Canal, Doge's Palace, St Mark's Basilica, St Mark's Clocktower, the Procuratie Vecchie, the Napoleonic Wing of the Procuraties, St Mark's Campanile (Bell Tower) among other tourist attarctions of Venice. Truly, the Piazza San Marco is a fascinating place to be in.

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