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• Pisa
  ...ouncil of Elders. It is today one of the best preserved early [[Romanesque architecture|romanesque]] buildings in town. ...lla Spina]]''', attributed to Giovanni Pisano (1230), is another excellent Gothic building.
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• Cagliari
  ...he siege to the Castle in which the Pisan had took shelter. It has a small Gothic portal in the façade and in the interior houses a wooden statue of the Mad The districts built in the [[1930]]s spot some nice examples of [[Art Deco]] architecture and some controversial examples of Fascist [[neoclassicism]], such as the J
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• History
  ...rt of the Italian peninsula. During the Early Middle Ages, following the [[Gothic War]] that was disastrous for the region, new waves of Byzantine Christian ...editerranean Sea, also became a centre for Renaissance culture, especially architecture. In 1378 the Papacy returned to Rome, but that once imperial city remained
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• Barcelona
  ...urope]]. The city, Spain's second largest, has a wealth of unique historic architecture and has emerged as one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe d * '''Gaudi architecture''', including the '''Parc Güell''', the still unfinished '''Sagrada Fa
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• Vienna
  ...ent Collection. Study Collection. Exhibitions of contemporary art, design, architecture. How to go there? Subway U3, Tram 1, 2, bus 1A, 74A to Stubentor, and U4 to ...re, Hundertwasser's manifesto rings out as an utterly reasonable plea: The architecture of KunstHausWien would be a bastion against the dictatorship of the straigh
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• Italian literature
  ...flourished at [[Ravenna]] under [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]], and the Gothic kings surrounded themselves with masters of [[rhetoric]] and of [[grammar]] ...te a treatise on painting, [[Leone Battista Alberti]] one on sculpture and architecture. But the names of these two men are important, not so much as authors of th
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• Italian Literature
  ...flourished at [[Ravenna]] under [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]], and the Gothic kings surrounded themselves with masters of [[rhetoric]] and of [[grammar]] ...ardo da Vinci]] wrote a treatise on painting, Alberti one on sculpture and architecture. But the names of these two men are important, not so much as authors of th
  112 KB (18,241 words) - 13:59, 29 March 2010

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