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At the center of the square stands a large statue of Dante
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From 1843 the central niche constitutes the entrance to the Jesuit boarding school, which became in 1861 “Convitto
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On the opposite side of the hemicycle the respective ex-convents are situated in addition to the churches of Santa Maria di
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The building, with the two characteristic curved wings, sees at the top the presence of twenty-six statues representing the virtues of Carlo (three are by
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more secluded, there are the windows of the exits of the subway line 1. The square was redesigned and refurnished just for the works for the subway, concluded in 2002. The entire hemicycle has thus become a pedestrian area.
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in 1625, official because the population had created an abusive brick in the wall to facilitate communications with the villages, in particular with that of the
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