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Museum
San Marco remained the doge's chapel until 1807, and the ducal treasures upstairs in the
Museo
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(Basilica di San Marco Museum; €5; 9.45am-4.45pm Mon-Sat, 2-4pm Sun)
put
a king's ransom to shame. Gilt bronze horses taken by Venice from Constantinople were
stolen in turn by Napoleon but were eventually returned to the basilica and installed in the
1st-floor gallery. Portals lead from the gallery on to the giddiness-inducing
Loggia dei Cavalli
,
where reproductions of the horses gallop off the balcony over Piazza San Marco.
In the Museo's displays of restored 13th- to 16th-century mosaic fragments, the Prophet
Abraham is all ears and raised eyebrows, as though scandalised by Venetian gossip. On an
