Back in the 17th Century, the piazza must have been an ideal spot for people watching, too.
What changed this was the Thirty Years War in Europe in the 17th century.
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It was created as a result of drainage of fenland in the 17th Century.
In the 17th century, philosophes like Robert Boyles and Thomas Hobbes began making lists of curious things.
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In the 17th century the English had picked up on the idea with the Oxford Botanical Garden.
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In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
Built in the 17th Century, it housed 22 shops and acted as a grand inn for travelling merchants.
This model spread in the 17th century supporting the growth of national libraries and the preservation of knowledge.
The soldier's family had indeed settled in the area in the 17th century.
The technique became popular among Dutch artists, including Rembrandt, in the 17th century.
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Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.
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In the 17th century legend has it Nadir Shah took Timur's headstone back to Persia.
In the 17th century it was sugar, followed by gold, coffee and rubber.
The Canada goose was first introduced to England in the 17th Century to grace the waterfowl collections of wealthy individuals.
At last, in the 17th century, when the printing press came to Japan, the book was available to the masses.
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Despite its origins in the 17th Century, stamp duty is a very real fact for almost anyone buying a property today.
Then, in the 17th century, when cabinets of curiosity were an aristocratic fashion, they too became a fashionable trompe l'oeil theme.
But it's the French custom of "souper" in the 17th Century that helped shaped what most of us eat for lunch today.
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French colonists arrived in the 17th century, wiping out the Carib population.
Rene Barendse's study of European traders in the western Indian Ocean and contiguous lands in the 17th century shows how detailed evidence helps.
Between them, they shook up the art world in the 17th Century with their subtle use of colour and penchant for striking religious paintings.
In the 17th century British scientist Robert Hooke took a crack at taxonomy, but his clumsy cloud names ("water'd, " "lowring, " "hairy") failed to fly.
Characteristic of the Balkan region, Gjirokastra contains a series of outstanding examples of kule, a type of building which crystallized in the 17th century.
Great financial centres have often been great artistic centres from Florence in the Renaissance to Amsterdam in the 17th century to London and New York today.
As a means to settle disputes without violence, they were a considerable advancement back when the adversarial system was invented in the 17th century.
Yet in the 17th century the Jewish world from Aleppo to Amsterdam was in thrall to Sabbatai Sevi, a kabbalist who claimed to be the messiah.
Since the world has many central banks, this means that we are inadvertently going back to the arrangement we tried to shed in the 17th century.
But it has recently fielded a big, visible rush from eastern Europe, which by some measures is its biggest influx since the Huguenots in the 17th century.
In the 17th century the waters around southwest England were home to blue whales, as well as large numbers of porpoise, dolphins, and blue and thresher sharks.
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