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• Pandoro
  ...d appreciated in the ancient [[Rome]] of [[Pliny the Elder]], in the [[1st century]]. That bread was made with "the finest flour combined with eggs, butter an ...for making pandoro was developed and perfected, a process that required a century. The modern history of this dessert bread began at Verona in [[October 30]]
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• Desio
  *''Villa Tittoni'' (18th century) *''Torre dei Palagi'' (19th century)
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• Peggy Guggenheim Collection
  ...collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished [[18th century]] palazzo which was never built past the ground floor level. In one room, t ...useum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century.
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• History of Tuscany
  ...Florence was generally agreed to have declined greatly by the early [[18th century]], and a series of bad rulers led to a take over by the [[Holy Roman Empire ...commune was not incorporated into Tuscany until 1555, and during the 15th Century Siena enjoyed a cultural '[[Sienese Renaissance]]' with its own more conser
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• Pesaro
  ...t, has been found at Novilara. The northern Piceni were invaded in the 4th century BC by the [[Senones]] Gauls, and when the Romans reached the area the popul ...and destroyed by [[Vitigis]] (539) in the course of the [[Gothic Wars (6th century)|Gothic War]]. Hastily rebuilt five years later after the Byzantine reconqu
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• Liguria
  arearank = 18th | ...t of the city's history, and, with a few breaks in the 15th and early 16th century when the area was under either [[Duchy of Milan|Milanese]] or [[France|Fren
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• Ca' Rezzonico
  ...Grand Canal]] in [[Venice]]. Today it is a [[museum]] dedicated to [[18th century]] Venice. It is one of the few palazzi in Venice, where the public can gai ...[[Palazzo Labia]], had bought their noble Venetian status in the mid-17th century following a war with [[Turkey]], when the Venetian state coffers were deple
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• Angouleme
  ...he [[Visigoths]] in [[507]], and plundered by the [[Normans]] in the [[9th century]]. In [[1360]] it was surrendered by the [[Treaty of Brétigny]] to the [[E ...m Taillefer]], whose descendants held the title till the end of the [[12th century]]. Withdrawn from them on more than one occasion by [[Richard I of England|
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• Cappuccino
  ...European" ambience (such as [[Starbucks]]). By the first years of the 21st century a modified version of cappuccino was being served by the [[McDonald's]] fas ...st invariably oak) rather than being painted and gilded as in the previous century. The new mode, which coincided with the height of the controversy over ''[[
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• Umbria
  ...n is named for the [[Umbri]] tribe, who settled in the region in the [[6th century BC]]. Their language was [[Umbrian language|Umbrian]], a relative of [[Lat ...ompleted on the private initiative of an engineer from Foligno in the 18th century.
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• Accademia
  ...e dell’Accademia contains masterpieces of Venetian painting up to the 18th century, generally arranged chronologically though some thematic displays are evide
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• Perugia
  ...d it is spoken of as one of the principal cities of [[Tuscia]]. In the 9th century, with the consent of [[Charles the Great]] and [[Louis the Pious]], it pass In the 15th century power was at last concentrated in the Baglioni family, who, though they had
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• Tavolara
  ...aolo is in the graveyard on the island, surmounted by a crown. In the 18th century, Sardinian lore claimed the [[sheep]] of Tavolara had [[gold]] [[teeth]]. T
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• Cagliari
  ...Italy|Nora]], and [[Tharros]], that were founded from [[Tyre]] in the 7th century BC. It passed with the rest of the island first to the control of [[Cartha ===11th century===
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• Panettone
  ...ers were Motta, Bauli, Alemagna and Le tre Marie; at the beginning of 20th century, the name Motta was synonymous with panettone. ...tall, leavened fruitcake" makes cameo appearances in the arts : In a 16th century painting by [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]], also as a recipe in a contempora
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• Northern Italy
  ...the first part of Italy to be industrialized in the last half of the 19th century, the so called [[industrial triangle]] formed by the manufacturing centres In the 13 century the Lombard league and the Tuscan League opposed themselves to the power of
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• Palladian architecture
  ...ular briefly in [[Britain]] during the mid-17th century. In the early 18th century it returned to fashion, in not only England but many nothern European count ...defined by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] architect [[Vitruvius]] and his 15th-century disciple [[Leon Battista Alberti]], who adhered to principles of [[Roman ar
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• Culture
  ...w]] by the [[constitution]]. Before the arrival of Christianity in the 1st century A.D. the country was mostly pagan and worshiped the [[Roman Gods]]. Eventua ...s of works by [[Menander]]. During the 16th century and on into the [[18th century]] [[Commedia dell'arte]] was a form of [[improvisational theatre]] , altho
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• Art of Italy
  ...], [[Baroque]] and [[Rococo]]. [[Futurism]] developed in Italy in the 20th century. [[Image:Aldobrandini wedding.JPG|thumb|250px|''Aldobrandini Wedding'' (1st century BC) from the Vatican]]
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