Piazza San Marco is the beating heart of Venice, the preferred destination of all tourists because of unique and inimitable complex of monuments we can find here.

The square has a trapezoidal shape: it is 175 meters long and the largest side is 80 meters wide. It is delimited on eastern side by the Basilica of San Marco, on the northern by the palace of Procuratie Vecchie (Old Offices, rebuilt in XVI century), on the southern side by the Procuratie Nuove (New Offices, bilt at the end of XVI century) and on the western from the palace joining the two Procuratie, built during Napoleonic age replacing the preexisting Church of San Gemignano. Under the arcades of Procuratie there are some old-age coffee shops, active since XVIII century.

But what makes this Piazza really unique is most of all the opening towards the lagoon on its south-easternly corner, between the high and impressive belltower and the wonderful loggia of Doge's Palace. In the wide open space delimited by historical palaces, they come tourist from all over the world and take pictures submerged by pigeons that crowd Venezia.

Here are also the spectacles of Carnival, one of the most renowned in the world, where you can admire the most beautiful and reach masks and fancy dresses, inside a sparkling festival of colours where lives again the golden age of Venice, between XVI and XVIII centuries.