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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists at the Piazza Inferiore di San Francesco at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists in Piazza San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Piazza della Sinoria, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Near the chaotic road junction of Piazza Venezia in the Italian capital of Rome, we see a gridlock situation of traffic. Buses, cars and three scooters and riders appear to be stuck in the middle of a motoring nightmare as no-one goes anywhere - the progress of this journey to destinations and life itself, has ground to a halt. A bus passenger looks out resigned through her window, a driver on another vehicle rests his hand on a ledge and the riders are sandwiched between cars. The dot matrix sign on the 60 bus it mentions its own destination, the abbreviation for Piazza spelled as "P.za". The Piazza Venezia takes its name from the adjacent Palazzo Venezia, the former embassy in the city of the Republic of Venice. The piazza is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and near the Roman Forum.
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  • Menelaus Patroclus, Romano Greek statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Menelaus bearing the corpse of Patroclus. Marble, Roman copy of the Flavian Era after a Hellenistic original of the 3rd century BC, with modern restorations. Found in Rome; in the Medici collections in Florence, 1570; installed in the Loggia dei Lanzi since 1741.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Hercules and Centaurs overlooking tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Fontana di Piazza del Mercato, the market square fountain in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. One of the most grandiose fountains in Spoleto could possibly be that of the large fountain in Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Fontana di Piazza del Mercato, the market square fountain in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. One of the most grandiose fountains in Spoleto could possibly be that of the large fountain in Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Eighteenth century Neptune fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento. We see a wide view of the Piazza with the late Baroque Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) built in 1767-1768. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences.
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  • Eighteenth century Neptune fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento. We see a wide view of the Piazza on the side of the Cathedral, with frescoed Renaissance buildings and the Late Baroque Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) built in 1767-1768. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences.
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  • Eighteenth century Neptune fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento. We see a wide view of the Piazza on the side of the Cathedral, with frescoed Renaissance buildings and the Late Baroque Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) built in 1767-1768. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences.
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  • Tourists with umbrellas at the Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Tourist umbrella in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Tourists below the entrance to Basillica di San Marco in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. With arms interwtined as they express solidarity and family ties, they stand with their backs to the viewer, facing the arched entrance. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Tourists with umbrellas at the Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Chinese tourists with umbrellas at the Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Chinese tourist with umbrella in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Tourist umbrellas in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Tourist umbrella beneath the Campanile in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Early morning people in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. It is dawn in the Italian city on the sea and the wide expanse of Piazza Marco with the Basillica di San Marco on the far side and a man stands with legs apart to take his pictures of an empty square in the heart of Venice and where, in a few hours, the pavement will be crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets and smaller canals with gondolas. The light is soft and the air cool on this midsummer morning during a heatwave - the best time to be here.
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  • The giant nudes of Baccio Bandinelli's Hercules & Cacus and Michelangelo's David stand in Piazza della Signoria beneath the fortress palace Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio ("Old Palace") which is the town hall of the city. This massive, Romanesque, crenulated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the square with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy, and it host cultural points and museums.
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  • Two men walk past a piece of modernist art in the Piazza De Ferrari in Genoa, Italy. Situated in the heart of the city between the historical and the modern centre, Piazza De Ferrari is renowned for its fountain, which was restored in recent years along with a major restyling of the square.
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  • Tourists listen to tour guide at the Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Photographers bend their knees  outside the Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. It is dawn in the Italian city on the sea and the wide expanse of Piazza Marco with the Doge's Palace on the left, two men stand with legs apart to take their pictures of an empty square in the heart of Venice and where, in a few hours, the pavement will be crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets and smaller canals with gondolas. The light is soft and the air cool on this midsummer morning during a heatwave - the best time to be here.
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  • A European tour group admires renaissance statue copies in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria. Standing beneath the taller piece entitled 'Rape of the Sabine Women' is by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna and the visitors to this medieval city tour the cultural landmarks beneath gothic arches and replica artworks. The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep.
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  • Girl tourists in similar clothing outside Basillica di San Marco in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The wide expanse of Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavement is crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Nun manhandles case up steps in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. Having walked across the wide square in the heart of Venice, she hauls her bag up the steps and continues her journey in the narrow quiet streets where, in a few hours, the pavement swill be crowded with humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets and smaller canals with gondolas. The light is soft and the air cool on this midsummer morning during a heatwave - the best time to be here.
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  • Tourists walking in the Piazza di San Giovanni nearby he Baptistery in Florence, part of the Duomo complex, which includes the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Campanile. Historians believe that construction of the Baptistery, also known as Battistero San Giovanni or Saint John’s Baptistery, began in 1059, making it one of the oldest buildings in Florence.
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  • Statue at the Statue at the Quatro Canti (officially known as Piazza Vigliena) a Baroque square) a Baroque square, Palermo, Italy
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  • A woman wheels her shopping trolley through the Piazza Bellini, Palermo, Italy
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  • Horses used to ferry tourists and a scooter rider at the Quatro Canti (officially known as Piazza Vigliena) a Baroque square, Palermo, Italy
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  • Two Catholic nuns from the Asia region have walked from St Peter's Square in Vatican City, though Piazza Pio XII and are continuing down the wide street called Via della Conciliazione. Dressed in fine religious gowns complete with beautiful sashes around the waste they walk in step past a shop called Galleria Savelli that sells religious trinkets and other tourist ephemera. Sat basking in the sun is a dalmatian dog with its coat of dark spots and white skin as clean as the nuns' long dresses. Near the centre of the picture are the postcards of the Cisteen chapel and of Pope John Paul II who is seen waving at various Papal events. Also spotless is the Roman pavement which has been swept and cleaned very recently. In the distance is the magnificant Basilica di San Pietro from where the Pope addresses the weekly crowds.
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  • A statue of Dante in the Piazza dei Signori, Verona, Italy
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  • A statue of Dante in the Piazza dei Signori, Verona, Italy
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  • An Asian tour group admires renaissance statues in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. With the tall marble replica statue of Neptune in the background as well as the mounted figure of Cosimo Medici on his horse to the left, the tourists are listening to the amplified commentary of their leader who tells them about the history of this city and its context within the medieval world of art and trade.  The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Tired and disappointed tourists and a pretend Egyptian pharaoh busker stand awaiting custom in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Uffizi galleries, the two young visitors sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • Carabinieri officers mingle with crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In front of them reproductions of renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Watching for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints, we see an incongruous landscape of classical art and urban modernity. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character as the two policemen keep the city secure from possible attack.
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  • Foreign tourists admire renaissance architecture while Carabinieri officers mingle with the crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. The policemen watch out for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints. The sun is sinking over the far side of the Arno River and we also see the buildings in the background that occupy the far southern bank of the Arno. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • A local woman uses her mobile phone while sitting on steps near her bicycle of a public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. There is little colour in this image of history and urban decay but there is a peace and stillness amid an otherwise busy metropolis. Many citizens of this once-grand renaissance cultural capital use the moped and scooter and of course, the bike as urban transport though this form of transportation is particularly uncomfortable as the old stones in roads and pavements are rutted and very rough.
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  • A local man reads newspaper while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. Surrounded by city pigeons that also rest across this ground-level landscape, the man appears to be sucking a pencil while perhaps completing a tricky crossword or other media quiz. There is little colour in this image of history and urban decay but there is a peace and stillness amid an otherwise busy metropolis.
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  • The painted ceiling on the dome of Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Italy. The cathedral was built at the end of the 13th century by Filippo Brunelleschi and then the dome was added in the 15th century.
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  • Case Rella fresco facades on Renaissance buildings in Piazza Duomo, Trento. Looking up from street level, we see the historic frescoed buildings with their respective shadows on the plastered walls. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences.
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  • Case Rella fresco facades on Renaissance buildings in Piazza Duomo, Trento. Looking up from street level, we see the historic frescoed buildings with their respective shadows on the plastered walls. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences.
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  • A female tourist reads from a guidebook while her male companion lies on a low wall in the Piazza dei Signori, Verona, Italy
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  • Among medieval statues, a guitarist and street busker perform for passing tourists in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. Dressed in white to echo the medieval figures of city officials that stand in porticos of the main Uffizi building, a man will hug any visitor who wishes to have their photo taken alongside, for the price of a few Euros. Meanwhile, to his right, the musician plays classical songs on his acoustic instrument where its sound travels around this street corner, his notes rebounding from the solid stone walls and pillars.
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  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
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  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
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  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
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  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
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  • The Ai Caduti Per La Liberta statue in Piazza Bra on the 17th November 2019 in Verona in Italy. The name translates as To Have Fallen For Freedom. It represents partisan and was made by Mario Salazzari 1904-1993, sculptor, musician, poet and partisan from Verona. The statue was erected in 1946 to commemorate the first anniversary of Liberation on 25th April.
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  • Fruit and vegetable stall seller in the Market Square in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Fruit and vegetable stall seller in the Market Square in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Three Asian girls plan their tour of Venice inside the covered Procuratie Nuovo in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The Procuratie are three connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are historic buildings over arcades, the last of them completed, to finish off the square, under Napoleon's occupation. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • A young magician performs a levitation trick using a lady assistant, in front of a crowd in Covent Garden's Piazza, London. Saying abracadabra or a similar explanation to wow his surrounding audience, the man stands beneath the raised woman, lying horizontally in mid-air. Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact.
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  • Tourists mill beneath the Baptistry of San Giovanni (right) beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. on the left. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • Behind the viewer, tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • With tourists below, the replica of Michelangelo's David statue stands beneath Palazzo Vecchio in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. It is said that the genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • Two female tourists walk beneath the perfect nude male example of Michelangelo's David statue in Piazza della Signoria. It is said that the statue's genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • A young Italian woman sits on a ledge outside the Piazza Strozzi in central Renaissance city of Florence. Above her are giant posters advertising the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
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  • Two women walk past a billboard for car maker Audi in Piazza Navona, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome Italy.
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  • Market Square in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Market Square in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Piazza del Mercato, located in the historical centre of Spoleto.
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  • Two Asian girls under the pillars the covered Procuratie Nuovo in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The Procuratie are three connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are historic buildings over arcades, the last of them completed, to finish off the square, under Napoleon's occupation. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Violinist plays inside the covered Procuratie Nuovo in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. The orchestra plays for cafe customers in the heart of Venice where visitors either sit at tables or walk in the shade from a midsummer heatwave. The violinist looks serious and hopes for tips. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • A tourist in cafe entrance inside the covered Procuratie Nuovo in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. Wearing a sports shirt bearing the flag of Mexico, the man exits the cafe, walking past a classic corner advert for Coke on a yellow table. Reflected in the glass we see tourists and visitors in this shopping arcade in the heart of Venice.
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  • Tourists outside the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists outside the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Ornately painted interior of the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Ornately painted interior of the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior with tourists at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior with tourists at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior with tourists at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Tourists outside the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior with tourists at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior with tourists at the Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town of Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Tourists walk along the waterfront in front of Santa Maria della Salute church in Dorsoduro, overlooking the Grand Canal and San Marco district with the tall Campanile. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • A boy carries a Venice picture umbrella in front of Santa Maria della Salute church in the Dorsoduro district, overlooking the Grand Canal and San Marco. This is the heart of Venice and where, for most daylight hours, the pavements are crowded wih humanity as the influx of tourists who, in their own way, flood the narrow streets with sun-shading umbrellas and the smaller canals with gondolas.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Street performer with a tall unicycle thrills the gathered crowd with his performance in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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