Church of San Marco
Piazza Sant’Oronzo, Lecce 73100 - Italy
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Venetian merchants built the Church of San Marco in 1543 for somewhere to collate their stores, showing how well the trade between Lecce and the Republic of Venice was thriving. The church stands against the Sedile and is another church that overlooks the Roman amphitheatre, with its simple, Renaissance decorations, even though the portal is full of intaglios. Its winged lion is the symbol of the authority and economic power of the Venetian colony in Lecce.
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