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BASILICA DI SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA
Life choices are presented in no uncertain terms in Santa Maria Assunta's vivid cau-
tionary tale: look ahead to a golden afterlife amid saints and a beatific Madonna, or
turn your back on her to face the wrath of a devil gloating over lost souls. In existence
for more than a millennium, the cathedral is the lagoon's oldest Byzantine-
Romanesque monument.
Madonna & Last Judgment Mosaics
The restrained brick exterior (c 824) betrays no hint of the colourful scene that unfolds as
you enter. The Madonna rises in the east like the sun above a field of corn poppies in the
12th-century apse mosaic, while the back wall vividly depicts the dire consequences of
dodging biblical commandments. This extraordinary Last Judgment mosaic shows the
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