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Horses of Saint Mark
The Horses of Saint Mark (), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga, is a set of Roman bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing). The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until looted by Napoleon in 1797 but were returned in 1815. The
the exterior walls. The main altar is pseudo-Gothic and the side altars date from the 18th century. The church was badly damaged in the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, at which point the nave in front of the altar dedicated to Saint Mark was given a flat roof. The cemetery surrounding the church contains a large number of cast-iron crosses erected in the 19th century.
A local legend relates that in the 16th century the church was used by Ottoman forces to stable horses. However, the sexton was able to