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search St Mark's Square showing the Procuratie Nuove on the
left, the Napoleonic Wing ahead and the Procuratie Vecchie to
the right.  The Procuratie (literally, "procuracies") are three
connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are also
connected to St Mark's Clocktower. They are historic buildings
over arcades, the last of them completed, to finish off the
square, under Napoleon's occupation.  The oldest of the
buildings is the Procuratie Vecchie on the north side of the
Square, built as a two-storey structure in the twelfth century,
to house the offices and apartments of the procurators of San
Marco. They were rebuilt after a fire in the sixteenth century
to a three-storey design by Codussi which still betrays
something of its Gothic roots.  The Procuratie Nuove, on the
south side of the Square was begun in 1586 by Vincenzo Scamozzi
in a more strictly Classical style and completed by Longhena in
1640, designed to afford more space to o