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By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 04:00 am This weekend, on Sunday, April 28, Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in St. Mark’s Square during a one-day trip to Venice, Italy.

Pope Francis will preside over a public Mass in St. Mark’s Square at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 28, as he visits the Vatican pavilion at the Venice Biennale art exhibition.

He will leave St. Mark’s Square via motorboat to arrive at a heliport on Sant’Elena Island, where he will depart by helicopter at 1 p.m., after having spent only five hours in Venice.

In the atrium of Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica, the red marble bases of ancient columns have been gnawed away. Other plinths are fragmented so badly they must be held in place by makeshift straps.

The execution of the barriers took place after planning officials decided not to raise the city’s MOSE system for aqua alta events under 120cm, leaving the square and Basilica, on the lowest ...

VENICE: It’s a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of Venice’s iconic St Mark’s Basilica safe from seawater-induced erosion: A set of glass ...

Tourists and residents walk on catwalks during a sea tide of around 97 centimeters (38.18 inches) to cross a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice (Domenico Stinellis/AP) It’s a simple solution ...

St Mark’s basilica, the most famous and splendid monument in Venice, is now protected by its own small flood barrier, a fixed wall of glass that prevents water in the square from invading the ...