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St Mark's Basilica

St Mark’s Basilica audio guide

The façade of the Basilica: five portals, the mosaics, the Gothic crowning and the bronze horses

Visit St Mark’s Basilica with the Calletta audio guide: 71 stops among mosaics, chapels and treasures, with a redrawn, numbered floor plan.

Open the entry in Calletta and follow the stops in visiting order: the voice tells you what is in front of you and the text lights up word by word. The numbered plans show you where you are.

Floor plans

Plan of St Mark’s Basilica: numbered mosaics in the domes, great arches and atrium
Plan of St Mark’s Basilica: numbered mosaics in the domes, great arches and atrium

The stops of the visit

  1. Main façade
  2. St Alipio's Portal
  3. The archivolts of the main portal
  4. St Mark's Basilica - The main door and the bronze doors
  5. The architect biting his finger
  6. St Mark's Basilica - The Labours of Hercules
  7. The façade mosaics
  8. St Mark's Basilica - The terrace and the four horses
  9. The Gothic crown
  10. St Mark's Basilica - Facade towards the Piazzetta
  11. The Pilastri Acritani
  12. The first inscription in dialect
  13. Façade towards San Basso
  14. Patere and reliefs of the north flank
  15. Alexander the Great ascending to heaven
  16. The Porta dei Fiori
  17. St Mark's Basilica - The tomb of Daniele Manin
  18. Atrium and Genesis domes
  19. St Mark's Basilica - The Slab of the Imperial Meeting
  20. St Mark's Basilica - The Dome of the Creation
  21. The thread of Abraham, Joseph and Moses
  22. Nave and Domes
  23. The floor: a sea of marble
  24. The Pentecost dome
  25. The dome of the Ascension
  26. St Mark's Basilica - The arch of the Passion
  27. The Dome of the Prophets
  28. The two transept domes
  29. St Mark's Basilica - The Finding of the Body
  30. North transept
  31. The Madonna Nicopeia
  32. The small altars of doge Moro
  33. The Capitello del Crocifisso
  34. The Madonna dello Schioppo
  35. Basilica di San Marco - Cappella dei Mascoli
  36. St Mark's Basilica - Mascoli Chapel - The vault mosaics
  37. Mascoli Chapel — The altar
  38. Chapel of St Isidore
  39. Chapel of Sant'Isidoro — The portal and the grille
  40. Chapel of St Isidore — The golden vault
  41. Chapel of St Isidore — The ark and the censing angel
  42. St Mark's Basilica - Presbytery and Pala d'Oro
  43. The iconostasis and the great cross
  44. Sansovino's tribunes
  45. St Mark's Basilica - The ciborium and the four columns
  46. The Pala d'Oro
  47. St Mark's Basilica - The doge's seat and the inlays
  48. The chapels of San Clemente and San Pietro
  49. The altar behind the Pala
  50. The sacristy and Sansovino's door
  51. St Mark's Basilica - The two amboni (pulpits)
  52. Treasury
  53. Treasury — The Chair of St Mark
  54. Treasury — The reliquary sanctuary
  55. Treasury — The emperors' cups
  56. Treasury — The four portable icons
  57. Treasury — The urn of Artaxerxes
  58. Museum and Loggia dei Cavalli
  59. Museum — The original horses
  60. Museum — The Loggia dei Cavalli
  61. Museum — The panel that covered the Pala
  62. Museum — The rooms of the mosaic masters
  63. St Mark's Basilica - Museum - Tapestries, fabrics and the doge's throne
  64. Baptistery and Zen Chapel
  65. Baptistery — Sansovino's font
  66. Baptistery — The tomb of Andrea Dandolo
  67. Baptistery — The mosaics
  68. St Mark's Basilica - Zen Chapel and the Madonna of the Shoe
  69. St Mark's Basilica - Crypt
  70. Crypt — Where St Mark rested
  71. St Mark's Basilica - Crypt - The Mascoli altar

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