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Villa Gazzotti Grimani |
The Villa Gazzotti Grimani (1542) is a Renaissance villa, an early work of architect Andrea Palladio, located in the village of Bertesina, near Vicenza in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
In 1994 UNESCO designated Villa Gazzotti Grimani as part of the "Vicenza, City of Palladio" World Heritage ... |
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Villa Capra "La Rotonda" |
Villa La Rotonda is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio. The proper name is Villa Almerico Capra, but it is also known as La Rotonda, Villa Rotonda, Villa Capra and Villa Almerico.
The name "Capra" derives from the Capra brothers, who completed the ... |
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Rialto Bridge |
The Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal and it had been the only one up to 1854 when the Ponte dell'Accademia was built. Ponte dell'Accademia was the dividing line for the districts of San Marc... |
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Villa Angarano |
The Villa Angarano or Villa Angarano Bianchi Michiel is a villa in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, northern Italy.
It was originally conceived by Andrea Palladio who published a plan in his book I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura. Work was started on the wings of Palladio's design in the 1540s or 1550s.... |
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St. Pierre Cathedral |
The St. Pierre Cathedral is a cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland, today belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church. It was begun under Arducius de Faucigny, the prince-bishop of the Diocese of Geneva, in the 12th century, and includes an eclectic mix of styles. It is best known as the adopted home church ... |
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Petit Palais |
The Petit Palais (Small Palace) is a museum in Paris, France. Built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900 to Charles Girault 's designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). Arranged around an octi-circular courtyard and garden, the palace i... |
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Espace Dalí |
The Espace Dalí is a permanent exhibition in France devoted to Salvador Dalí and more particularly to his sculptures and engravings.
The museum, near the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, has around 300 original artworks. The Espace Dalí is France's biggest collection of Dalinian sculptures, which rep... |
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Lapin Agile |
Lapin Agile is a cabaret in the city of Paris. Originally called "Cabaret des Assassins" because the tradition relates that the cabaret received this name because a band of assassins broke in and killed the owner's son.
The cabaret was more than twenty years old when, in 1875, the artist Andre Gill... |
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Sluseholmen Canal District |
Sluseholmen Canal District (Sluseholmen Kanalby) is a residential development, located on Sluseholmen peninsula in the South Harbour area of Copenhagen, Denmark. The development comprises 1,350 apartments. The apartments are built on eight artificial islands, separated by dug-out canals.
The Sluseh... |
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St Mark's Clocktower |
The Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio) in Venice is an early renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. It was d... |
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