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See also: town of See also: Venetia, See also: Italy, in the province of Treviso, about 19 M
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N.W. See also: direct from the town of Treviso, and some 10 m
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E. of Bassano by road
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Pop
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(19o1) 5847
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It is well situated on a See also: hill, 690 ft. above
See also: sea-level
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Remains of See also: Roman See also: baths and of a theatre have been discovered in the course of excavation (Notizie degli scavi, 1877, 235; 1881, 205; 1882, 289), and the town was probably a municipium
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It became an episcopal see in the 6th century
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It was to See also: Asolo that See also: Catherine Cornaro, See also: queen of See also: Cyprus, retired on her abdication
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Here she was visited by Pietro See also: Bembo, who conceived here his Dialoghi degli Asolani, and by See also: Andrea Navagero (Naugerius)
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Paulus See also: Manutius was See also: born here
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The See also: village of Maser is 42 M. to the E., and near it is the See also: Villa Giacomelli, erected by See also: Palladio, containing frescoes by Paolo Veronese, executed in 1566—1568 for See also: Marcantonio Barbaro of Venice, and ranking among his best See also: works
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