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| In Polesine, art and civilization combine in the subtle interplay of different elements which nevertheless succeed in living together in harmony. The brickwork of the architecture that bears the hallmark of Emilia suggests the presence of Biagio Rossetti and his followers at Rovigo, but also of unknown expert craftsmen in the fortified manors and rustic buildings of Upper Polesine. There are many signs of the long and intense season of the Veneto villas, including absolute masterpieces such as Villa Badoera at Fratta Polesine with its pure Palladian lines. But there are also splendid examples of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art, linked with a legendary Polesine rooted in a distant past, when Adria was one of the leading ports in antiquity. There is no lack of fine paintings in the gallery of the Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo, in the church of San Francesco in the same town (which proposes an extraordinary review of paintings of the Ferrara school of the fifteenth-sixteenth century), and in the temple of the Rotonda (almost a history of mannerism in the Veneto).
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