Vicenza is a wealthy industrial and Renaissance-heritage city hosting major U.S. bases.
Evidence
But Italy’s fifty “base sites” give it more American base locations than any country in the world except Japan, Germany, and South Korea. … Vicenza’s factories produce gold jewelry, high-end bicycle components, and even roller coasters and other rides for amusement parks like Brooklyn’s Coney Island. The city revolves around a Renaissance-era center dominated by the architecture of Andrea Palladio, Vicenza’s most famous son. Influenced by ancient Rome, Palladio’s work has shaped architecture from Constantinople to London to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 746
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