Venice is a land of magic. I walked into a huge square area and noticed something that I’ve always thought it was a fantasy and it only existed in films. There were hundreds and hundreds of birds gathered in this large square. They were tweaking, playing with each other, and even playing with people. Quite a few people had birds laying on their arms, and these people looked like that they had wings.

I spent my day at Piazza San Marco, where the ice cream shaped domes cathedral, San Marco, was located. This cathedral was originated from the Byzantine era as it had the typical Byzantine ice cream look dome. This Greek cross cathedral has magnificent sculptures, engaged columns, and it’s front is beautiful rhythmic with five arches on the bottom part and also five more on the top. When I walked inside, the gold ceiling with beautiful biblical images amazed me. Then I looked down and noticed that the floors are created with colorful mosaics.

In front of San Marco Cathedral, there is campanile. Campanile is a bell tower. The building below the campanile in the Piazza San Marco, Loggetta di San Marco, is an important architectural structure as it is built by Jacopo Sansovino, an Italian architect who is responsible for introducing the High Renaissance style to Venice. This building is made of marble and bronze along with great sculptural decorations. It was constructed from 1538 until 1545. This building is a meeting place for nobility on official government business.

The Venetians built a gorgeous clock tower, tell dell’ Orologio, with a 24 – hour time and astrological signs placed over Merceria in the Piazza San Marco in order to impress everyone with their resources. This clock plays as a focal point to help direct which arch in the square leads to the Merceria. Codussi who designed this clock was inspired to build four times higher than its width according to the standards of Alberti. This clock symbolizes the start of building the Piazza San Marco.

Across the San Marco, there is a well – known church, San Giorgio Maggiore, and is designed by Andrea Palladio, a very influential architect, but was built by other people. The façade is very similar to other facades in Rome. The façade depicts characteristics from classic pagan temples by using pediments, a large faux portico with four columns, and pilasters.

The interior is magnificent like other churches in Italy. The interior plan appears as a rectangle with conches added on at the sides for the crossways. The interior space is designed to make the transept seem longer than it is through the use of half columns, flat modeling and artificial elements that are not placed in front of the walls, but instead develop out of them.