St. Mark is the principal square of Venice. It is divided into the actual area of St. Mark and the Piazzetta - a small area between Piazza San. The brand and the channel. St. Mark is framed by a long, arched building of the Old Procuratie and the New Procuratie. Rulers governed the social life of the city; therefore, the amount of year to year increased, and it took the construction of a separate building to house the bureaucracy, which is what happened in the early sixteenth century. In the building of the New Procuratie later was the residence of Napoleon. Now here is the Correr Museum, which houses a collection of paintings Canova, Bellini, Carpaccio and some Byzantine artists.

Piazzetta can be called magnificent atrium of the Grand square of St. Mark. Monuments which rise on this small area are of exceptional importance: it is framed on the left Insulinoma library on the right and the Doge's Palace. In old times, this place was a food market and only in 1536, the decree of the Doges ruled that the Piazzetta should be released from their stalls. On Piazzetta) executions, death sentences.

From the Mall two towering pillars of red marble; they were brought to Venice from the East in 1125 and is established only in the year 1172. Convoy St. Theodore is the name of this venerated in Venice the Saint, as his statue, consisting of parts of different origin, adorns the top of the column. The other column is a bronze winged lion - symbol of St. Mark, of unknown origin.