Venice - St Marks

This is the Basilica of St Mark in Venice. It is a Eastern Bysantine church built after the Roman emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire to Bysantium, which he promptly renamed Constantinople, and was later renamed Istanbul as it is today.
When the Eastern Empire fell to the Turks, some of the treasures of the Hagia Sophia (the St Peter's of the Eastern Empire) were moved here to St Marks. There is a museum in the Basilica that is amazing, but we were not allowed to take pictures in there, so I couldn't get any photos of the cool stuff.
Anyway, it is an awesome church. I think Venice was the capital of the Western Roman Empire for a while when the Roman Empire was divided into East and West. That would partially explain the huge Bystantine Basilica.