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Extract from the Venosa Travel Guides:
If Melfi preserves the appearance of a dark medieval town,
VENOSA
has an attractive airiness, a harmonious place, rich with historical associations. Known in antiquity as Venusia, it was in its time the largest colony in the Roman world, and much is made of the fact that it was the birthplace of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known to Italians as Orazio and to the English as
Horace
(65-68 BC); his supposed house lies past the cathedral on the right. Venosa's web of narrow streets is full of reminders of the town's long past. The tomb of the Roman general Marcellus, ambushed and killed by Hannibal here in 208 BC, is off V...
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