Piazza San Marco, Venice · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

On the morning of 14 July 1902, the bell tower standing over Piazza San Marco simply came down, a nine hundred year old structure collapsing in on itself so neatly that it barely damaged the buildings around it. Remarkably, nobody was killed, except for the caretaker's cat. The Venetians rebuilt it exactly as it had been, under the motto com'era, dov'era, as it was, where it was, and it reopened on 25 April 1912, on St Mark's feast day, precisely one thousand years, by tradition, after the original tower's foundations were first laid.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.