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St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy
The basilica built for St Mark's relics became the doge's chapel and a symbol of the Venetian Republic's wealth.
The story, as a puzzle
A saint smuggled by sea.
In 828, merchants smuggled the relics of an evangelist out of Alexandria (hidden under pork to put off inspectors, so the story goes) and brought them to a lagoon republic. Pin his basilica.
Where it is
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