2There is enough mosaic to cover 1.5 American football fields

There are more than 85,000 square feet (or 8,000 square meters) of mosaic in St. Mark’s Basilica…

..or enough mosaic to cover over 1.5 American football fields! The mosaics were done over 8 centuries, mostly in gold, and the result is astonishing

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