St Mark's Basilica in Venice
was damaged by Monday's exceptionally high acqua alta in the
lagoon city, the First Procurator of St Mark's, Carlo Alberto
Tesserin, said Tuesday.
The high water submerged some tens of square metres of the
thousand-year-old marble mosaic floor opposite the altar of the
Madonna Nicopeia and completely inundated the Baptistery and the
Zen Chapel, he said.
The water reached a depth of 90 centimetres above the mosaic
flooring of the Nartece, washing up against the monumental
Byzantine doors, the columns and the marbles, he said.
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