House of the Doge

We did the cultural thing today, which involved a Rick Steve walk of Saint Mark's Square and a trip into St Mark's cathedral. Which was a "cacophony of architectural styles" also known as a hot mess. But it was very nice to look at.
Inside the cathedral was:
- excellent mosaics
- average mosaics
- weird Catholic stuff
- odd Greek Orthodox stuff
- some horses that Nero stole from the Greeks, which were then taken by Constatine, which were then taken by the Venetians when they were "helping" the crusade and accidentally ended up with their allies things. The horses were then taken again by Napoleon, but the French eventually gave them back to be "in their rightful place".

Dinner was hamburgers, which were excellentRead more