Lion of Venice Lion of Venice The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze winged lion sculpture in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, which came to symbolize the city — as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark — after its arrival there in the 12th century. The sculpture surmounts one of two large granite columns in the Square, thought to have been erected between 1172 - 1177 during the reign of Doge Sebastiano Ziani or about 1268, bearing ancient symbols of the two patron saints of Venice. The "Lion" sculpture has had a very long and obscure history,
Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg 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 one of the variants in which and may be translated. The shape of Manezhnaya Square is close to the right-angled triangle. Its longest cathetus, the southern side of Manezhnaya Square is formed with "Italyanskaya Street", which runs parallel to Nevsky Prospect, at about hundred meters north of it. The shortest cathetus is "Karavannaya Street", which forms the eastern side of the square running from Nevky