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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Venice

VENICE (Venezia), a city and seaport of Italy, occupying one of the most remarkable sites in the world. At the head of the Adriatic, between the mountains and the sea, lies that part of the Lombard plain known as the Veneto. The whole of this plain has been fo ...

Vol. 27, pp. 995-1006 · ocr-imported-page-aligned
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Theatre

... entury the theatres of San Carlo at Naples, La Scala at Milan, and La Fenice at Venice were the finest in Europe; all these were rebuilt in the ipth century, FIG. 5.— The Fortune Theatre; restoration of Walter H. Godfrey. but have been eclipsed by the later th ...

Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 · ocr-imported-page-aligned
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