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Palmanova, Italy was built as an ideal humanist Renaissance city, a kind of utopia. But when Venice had finished it, no one wanted to move there. They had to pardon criminals to get anyone to live in the city. Why was Palmanova so unappealing?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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