Places, museums, monuments : 3
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Place, museum or monumentForo Buonaparte
When Napoleon named Milan the capital of the Cisalpine Republic on June 1st, 1797, he changed the city's destiny. In 1802 it became capital of the Italian Republic and then in 1805 capital of the Kingdom of Italy, firmly establishing its economic, political and administrative pre-eminence during the Napoleonic period. Furthermore, as a result of Milan's situation on […]
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Place, museum or monumentSt Michael’s Abbey, Farnborough
It was to England that the Imperial family fled after the fall of the Second Empire, their first residence being at Camden Place in Chislehurst. Following the death in 1873 of her husband, Napoleon III, and that of her son, the Prince Imperial, in 1879, the Empress Eugenie was eventually to settle in a new […]
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Place, museum or monumentAla Napoleonica in Piazza San Marco – Venice
One of the world's best-known historical sites, Piazza San Marco is surrounded by some remarkable monuments – the Basilica (originally the Doge's private chapel!), the Torre dell'Orologio, the Procuratie Nuove and the Procuratie Vecchie, Sansovino's Libreria Marciana, and finally the Ala Napoleonica which today houses the Museo Correr. Towards the end of 1805, Venice became […]