Republic of Venice Venice, at one with the sea, was being born. Agnello was succeeded by his son Giustiniano, who stole the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist from Alexandria, took them to Venice, and made him the republic's patron saint. According to tradition, Saint Mark was the founder of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. With the patriarch's flight to Grado after the Lombard invasion, the patriarchate split into two: one on the mainland, under the control of the Lomabrds and later the Franks, and the other in Grado on the lagoons and the areas under Byzantine control; this would later become the Patriarchate
Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg prospect to the north. Another street connecting the square to Nevsky is "Malaya Sadovaya" which intersects Italyanskaya Street at the western corner of the square. Here converges the third, longest side — the "hypotenuse" of this triangle square. Driveways flanking one of the buildings on this side of the square merge behind it into boulevard, "Klenovaya alley", which runs from Manezhnaya Square to Mikhailovsky Castle. Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg Manezhnaya Square (, romanized "Manezhnaya ploschad") ia a square in the Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg. In some guidebooks this square may be also named a "Riding-School Square": "riding school" is