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Scuola Grande di San Marco
The Scuola Grande di San Marco (English: Great School of Saint Mark) was a building in Venice.
Database Entry
The Scuola Grande di San Marco was one of the six large charitable organizations founded in Venice to help citizens afford food, dowries, processions, marriages, burials, and anything else they might need. Notably membership was open to any citizen of Venice, not just the elite.
Citizenship status was conferred on third generation Venetians or those who had paid taxes for fifteen years, meaning that Venetians were pretty xenophobic, except when you gave them money.
The facade of the building, which was built in 1260, was destroyed in a 1485 fire, causing it to be rebuilt in its current, opulent Byzantine form.[1]
Trivia
- One of Subject 16's Glyphs is located here.
- In Assassin's Creed II, the Scuola Grande di San Marco sits more in the Castello district than in San Marco, juxtaposed to the Santi Giovanni e Paolo church. On the roof of the Scuola, stand on the north side and look south with eagle vision for the glyph location.