SAINT MARK’S SQUARE
Saint Mark’s Square is the only place in Venice that can be really named as square. In fact, because of the peculiar topography of the lagoon city, there aren’t other squares and the spots similar to a square, but more little than usual, are named “campi”. Some people think St. Mark’s Square as the nicest one all over the world.
Its shape is trapezoidal and it measure about 175 meters in length and about 80 meters in the point of maximum width. It is delimited to the east by Saint Mark’s Basilica, to the north by the Palace of “Old Procuratie”, to the south by the Palace of “New Procuratie” and to the west by the New Annex in style of Napoleon. 
To the south-east there is the most beautiful spot of this square with the Basilica’s Bell Tower (an ancient lighthouse) and the loggia of Doge’s Palace.
Under the porches of the two Procuratie there are a lot of proper and historical café of Venice, some of them dated from the eighteenth century. In Saint Mark’s Square, every year, people celebrate one of the most famous Carnival of the world, with a lot of picturesque and very colorful disguises.