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Basilica Bones & Mosaics
In medieval
Basilica dei SS Maria e Donato
(Campo San Donato; admission free;
9am-noon & 3.30-7pm Mon-Sat, 3.30-7pm Sun; Museo)
a 12th-century gilded-glass
mosaic Madonna created in Murano's
fornaci
graces the apse and the bones
of a dragon hang behind the altar - according to legend the dragon was slayed
by San Donato, whose remains also rest here. Underfoot is a 12th-century mo-
saic floor.
