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Palazzo
Ducale
The Ducal Palace was the residence of the Doge up to the fall
of the Venetian Republic in I797 a public palace and seat of the
administration of justice. the highest and richest symbol of Venetian
civilisation, of its cultural, military, political and economic
history. All historic periods are represented in an extraordinary
stratification of structural and decorative elements: from the
antique foundations of the original Gothic complex, to the great
halls dedicated to political life and decorated by the canvases
of Veronese. Tintoretto and the great masters of the Renaissance.
to the precious rooms of the Doges apartment, from the dark prisons
and places of torture to the luminous loggias on the Piazza and
the Lagoon.
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