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A detail of the main villa towards the internal garden and the annex. - (Archive Venipedia / Bazzmann)

Two residences owned by the French Hériot family were ceded to the Venice City Council with the condition that they be used for educational purposes; a primary school was opened in 1949.
Today, the main villa houses the International University of Art and the Société Européenne de Culture while the Casa della Memoria e della Storia del '900 Veneziano was founded in the annexe.

With the Napoleonic expropriation of the possessions of the monasteries, the destination of most of the "liberated" land changed to industrial; many factories were built next to the older ones: construction sites, mechanical workshops, painting factories, mills, pasta factories, breweries, weaving mills, cement factories, rope factories, watchmakers, soap factories, foundries, etc.

In 1882 the Molino Stucky factory was built, which became a point of reference for the nascent industrial architecture. Between 1942 and around 1952, in the southern lagoon area behind the Fortuny "fa

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