The monumental entrance, squeezed between St Mark's Church and the Doge's Palace, is the link between the two most important buildings in Venice. It is the richly decorated Porta della Carta, a magnificent work of late Gothic architecture and decoration realised in the first half of the 15th century. Its name means "paper gate" and it was so called because this is where the public scribes gathered and because it is near the place where the "papers" were kept, the archives of the state documents. Above the cornice you see Doge Francesco Foscari on his knees in front of the winged lion whose paw rests on an open book. It is the symbol of St Mark the Evangelist (patron saint of Venice) and the official emblem of the Republic.
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