We had lunch at nearby Campo Santo Stefano, a square almost as large as Piazza San Marco, but much less popular, mostly because it's not nearly as nice. But it's a nice place to get off the tourist circuit, and there are a couple of places to visit. There's the namesake church, with a heavily leaning belltower, very typical when building tall structures on marshy land. There's also the home of a famous Doge, who was most famous for a series of victories against the Turks in the 1690's. His most famous achievement was to lob a missile at Athens' Parthenon, where the Turks had been storing gunpowder. Having wrecked one of the world's most famous historical monuments, he then wreaked further havoc by chopping off bits and pieces very destructively to bring back some souvenirs to Venice.



We had lunch at a cafe in the square, which was nothing memorable, then wandered back to the piazza to catch our boat back to the hotel.