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THE PALAZZO PUBBIvICO: SIENA 



This striking structure, built of brick and travertine, was completed in 1305, being now 

 more than six centuries old. The tower is regarded as one of the finest in Europe. William 

 Dean Howells says of it: "When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers, obelisks, 

 and columns are tame and vulgar and earth-rooted ; that seems to quit the ground, to be, not 

 a monument, but a flight." 



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