The Museum houses, in addition to the well-stocked scientific library, the following exhibition spaces: Cetaceans Gallery with the skeleton of a 20-meter whale and a young sperm whale suspended from the ceiling; Tegnùe Aquarium consisting of a…
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He was 74 years old (he was born in 1280). At the time of his election he was in Avignon as ambassador to Pope Innocent VI (1352-1362). His dogado began in an ominous way and ended worse: on 5 October, on his arrival in Venice, the Bucintoro, who…
The monumental complex is composed of a long central block with three floors with C-shaped wings on two levels and a green area of about 10 hectares surrounded by walls. The façade of the main block is made up of eight giant Corinthian half-…