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Piazza della Vittoria, designed by the architect Marcello Piacentini and built between 1927 and 1932

The Assicurazioni Generali building in Venice’s Piazza Vittoria, with the 60-metre-high INA tower next to it

The banded marble façade of the majestic Post and Telegraph Building

The two decorative clocks on the Tower of the Revolution, in Piazza della Vittoria

A square with a loggia, surrounded by 16th-century Venetian-style buildings, including the loggia

The Palazzo della Loggia, situated in the square of the same name, was designed in 1494 by the architects Sansovino, Palladio and Lodovico Beretta of Brescia

A three-lamp street lamp and the Renaissance loggia building, with its Botticino marble façade

The Clock Tower in Piazza della Loggia, built in the mid-16th century to a design by the architect Lodovico Beretta

The clock on the tower in Piazza della Loggia, which displays the time, the signs of the zodiac and the phases of the moon, painted by Gian Giacomo Lamberti

The ‘Bella Italia’ monument in Piazza della Loggia, erected in honour of those who fell during the Ten Days of Brescia, sculpted by Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1864

A 19th-century marble fountain at the foot of the portico in Piazza della Loggia, designed in 1595 by Bagnadore

On the right are the arcades of Piazza Paolo VI, designed by Piero Maria Bagnadore

The Botticino marble façade of the Duomo Nuovo, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, features decorative elements in the Corinthian style

The bust of Cardinal Angelo Maria Querini, created in 1750 by Antonio Calegari, situated above the entrance portal of the Duomo Nuovo

The wide nave of the summer cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, flanked by columns with Corinthian capitals

The dome of the Duomo Nuovo, supported by a tall drum illuminated by large rectangular windows

The high altar of the Duomo Nuovo, the work of the sculptor Giacomo Manzù, with Giacomo Zoboli’s altarpiece of the Assumption in the background

The ambo featuring a sculpture of an eagle in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, by Giacomo Manzù

The glass reliquary in the Duomo Nuovo, decorated by the architect Graziano Ferriani, containing a relic of Saint Benedict of Norcia

Detail of the funerary monument to Monsignor Gabrio Maria Nava, by Gaetano Matteo Monti (19th century)

On the left, the Pegol Tower; on the right, the New Cathedral and the Old Cathedral in Piazza Paolo VI

On the left is the Rotonda (Old Cathedral) and, in the background, the former Credito Agrario Bresciano building in Piazza Duomo

The winter co-cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Duomo Vecchio) in Piazza Paolo VI, built in the Romanesque style and dating from the 11th century

On the right is the Botticino marble fountain in Piazza Paolo VI, dating from the 18th century

The main Baroque marble portal of the Romanesque rotunda of the Old Cathedral

The splayed single-lancet windows in Medolo stone at the top of the central cylinder of the Old Cathedral and the dome of the New Cathedral, completed in 1825

On the right is the base of the rotunda of the Old Cathedral in Piazza Paolo VI, characterised by single-lancet windows with round arches

The tables outside the “I girasoli” ice-cream parlour in Via dei Musei

On the right is the marble sculpture of the patriot Tito Speri, created by the sculptor Domenico Ghidoni and erected in the square of the same name on 1 September 1888

On the left, Via dei Musei, and on the right, the majestic summer cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, with its 80-metre-high dome, as seen from the Cidneo hill

The dome of the Duomo Nuovo, designed by Luigi Cagnola in 1825 and built by Rodolfo Vantin

The bronze bust of Father Malvestiti, by Francesco Pezzoli, was unveiled on 19 April 1899

The castle’s entrance gate featuring a bas-relief of the Lion of St Mark, dating from 1580, a work attributed to Giulio Savorgnan

The outer walls of the San Faustino bastion in front of the castle entrance, with the Haynau building to the right

The slope running alongside the castle walls, with the bell tower of the former sanctuary of Santo Stefano Nuovo on the left and Palazzo Haynau in the background

The castle’s circular Prisoners’ Tower, built to defend the drawbridge and the gate

14th-century drawbridge of the Visconti fortress spanning the Visconti moat

The castle’s barrel-vaulted passageway, which connects the Coltrina Tower to the Mezzo Tower

The hull-shaped dome of the loggia, built in 1914, as seen from the square in front of the San Faustino bastion

Panoramic view of the city from the top of the San Faustino bastion of the castle

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