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Mon 06 Jun 2009History and function of Venice's great piazza excavated: be there or be square
BOOK OF THE DAY:HELEN MEANYreviews Piazza San MarcoBy Iain Fenlon, Profile Books
IT HAS been called an open-air salon, the marketplace of the world, a stage set, but the most quoted description of the piazza San Marco in Venice is Napoleon’s “drawing room of Europe”.
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