Next to St. Marc's Cathedral is the Doge Palace. It was built later than the cathedral, between the 14th and 16th centuries. Notice the two pink columns among all the other white columns. Our guide told us that this is where the sentencing was proclaimed, during another bloody time in Western history. He said after the names of the condemned were read from the balcony above the symbolically red columns, the condemned were then hanged between two pillars about a 100 yards from the palace. He said locals are aware of this history, so they do not walk between these pillars, choosing instead to go around them.
We were reading "Tale of Two Cities" at the time...good companion piece.
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