The field takes its name from the area that was used as a vineyard until the early 1200s where there was an oratory dedicated to San Marco which - legend has it - while going to Aquileia was surprised by a storm and here in sleep an angel appeared to him who said to him: Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista meus (lat. "peace to you, Marco, my evangelist"), which then became the motto of the Serenissima and which was read in the book of the winged lion when the Serenissima was at peace.
It is one of the largest and most airy fields in Venice and also one of the most peaceful. A feelin
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