THE+GOLDEN+LION!

He looks down upon piazza San Marco with a watchful eye keeping his territory safe!
== The reason I saw so many winged lions that look so very like the golden lion was because saint mark is the patron saint of Venice and his insignia is a winged lion! The golden lion has come to represent Venice and their power. At one point long ago they kept an actual live lion in a golden cage right in the middle of piazza San Marco! ==