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Transporting on the Via Francigena in 990, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sigerico, indicates the abbey of Santa Cristina, with his castle, such as the XL stage (Mansio). During the thirteenth century, the castle was completely reconstructed. One of the towers of the castle in front of the fort, in the north direction, arose the village (Ricetto), which was rebuilt in full in the 1600s. It looks like a homogeneous architectural complex protected at the entrance from a moat, from 2 Garitte and from 4 towers to the sides. From the monks of Santa Cristina, the castle first passed into the hands of the Pusterla family and then in those of the Visconti. From 1700 to 1730 at the behest and financing of Cardinal Agostino Cusani Visconti (1655-1730), Ambassador of the Pope at the Republic of Venice and to the Court of Louis XIV of France, the castle was expanded and transformed by a medieval fortress into a real palace, where popes, emperors and kings stayed; In this period the representative rooms were embellished with stuccos and paintings made by Tiepolesca school artists.
Transporting on the Via Francigena in 990, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sigerico, indicates the abbey of Santa Cristina, with his castle, such as the XL stage (Mansio). During the thirteenth century, the castle was completely reconstructed. One of the towers of the castle in front of the fort, in the north direction, arose the village (Ricetto), which was rebuilt in full in the 1600s. It looks like a homogeneous architectural complex protected at the entrance from a moat, from 2 Garitte and from 4 towers to the sides. From the monks of Santa Cristina, the castle first passed into the hands of the Pusterla family and then in those of the Visconti. From 1700 to 1730 at the behest and financing of Cardinal Agostino Cusani Visconti (1655-1730), Ambassador of the Pope at the Republic of Venice and to the Court of Louis XIV of France, the castle was expanded and transformed by a medieval fortress into a real palace, where popes, emperors and kings stayed; In this period the representative rooms were embellished with stuccos and paintings made by Tiepolesca school artists.
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The first municipality in the Veneto region by surface area and second by population after Verona, it includes both island and mainland territories and is structured around the two main centres of Venice (in the centre of the lagoon of the same name) and Mestre (on the mainland). It is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The city was the capital of the Serenissima Republic of Venice for 1,100 years and is known in this regard as the Serenissima, the Dominant and the Queen of the Adriatic: for its urban peculiarities and its artistic heritage, it is universally considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, declared, together with its lagoon, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which has contributed to making it the second Italian city after Rome with the highest tourist flow. Between the 10th and 16th centuries it was one of the greatest naval and mercantile powers in the Mediterranean, with interests in particular towards the East. Together with Cannes and Berlin, it is considered one of the capitals of European cinema, thanks to the International Film Festival.")
