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Vicenza

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Vi·cen·za  (v-chns, v-chndzä)
A city of northeast Italy west of Venice. Founded by Ligurians c. first century b.c., it became a free city in a.d. 1164 and passed to Austria in 1797. Vicenza joined the kingdom of Italy in 1866. Population: 114,000.
Vicenza (Italian) [viˈtʃɛntsa]
n
(Placename) a city in NE Italy, in Veneto: home of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio and site of some of his finest works. Pop.: 109 738 (2000 est.)


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