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Extract from the Mantua (Mantova) Travel Guides:
Aldous Huxley called it the most romantic city in the world; and with an Arabian nights skyline rising above its three encircling lakes,
MANTUA
(
MANTOVA
) is undeniably evocative. It was the scene of Verdi's
Rigoletto
, and its history is one of equally operatic plots, most of them perpetuated by the Gonzagas, one of Renaissance Italy's richest and most powerful families, who ruled the town for three centuries. Its centre of interlinking cobbled squares retains its medieval aspect, and there are two splendid palaces: the
Palazzo Ducale
, containing Mantegna's stunning fresco of the...
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