Venice was for centuries the city of foundries: the word ’ghetto’ was born a few hundred metres from here, from ’getto’, the pour of molten metal from the public foundries that stood where the Ghetto was later enclosed.
Venice was for centuries the city of foundries: the word ’ghetto’ was born a few hundred metres from here, from ’getto’, the pour of molten metal from the public foundries that stood where the Ghetto was later enclosed.
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