The Lion of Venice is associated with power and courage and considering it’s the symbol for the prestigious Venetian Republic, its origin feels important. It was already known that the statue predated ...

The Lion of Venice, an ancient bronze statue of a winged lion which can be seen by countless tourists on a massive plinth of Egyptian granite in the Piazza San Marco.

The winged lion became the official symbol of Venice between 1261 and 1264 and although it is unknown precisely when the statue was mounted in St. Mark’s Square.

"The Winged Lion statue, a gift of the British community, is a very, very splendid memorial to what those people did," Sir Nicholas Soames MP - Winston Churchill's grandson - told the BBC, after ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - The return of a lion statue at one of the island's grandest mansions is perhaps more mysterious than its disappearance.An unnamed person late last month directed island ...

GALVESTON, TX The winged lion statue dissapeared from the historic Bishop's Palace in May of 2008. It was first placed in front of the home back in the 1890s.

The local town hall in Prague 1 has been fined CZK 150,000 over the Winged Lion Memorial, a tribute to Czech and Slovak airmen who served in the British RAF during WWII. Prague City Hall, which issued ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- The return of a lion statue at one of the island's grandest mansions is perhaps more mysterious than its disappearance. An unnamed person late last month directed island ...