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49. biennale di veneZiA exhiBition Venues

gaggiandRe

notes on the exhibition venues The gaggiandre, Tese delle vergini and giardino delle vergini 49. biennale di Venezia
after the isolotto comes the long quayside that extends along the eastern side of the arsenale. onto this give
the gaggiandre, two large wet-docks built in 1568-1573 to designs attributed to Jacopo sansovino. next
to the gaggiandre and the sixteenth-century tese (housing the teatro delle tese), the eastern side of the
arsenale is bound in by the Tese delle vergini (3,400 square meters), which is divided into four different
areas and has an ample garden behind it. after partial use in previous years, this building will for the first
time be widely exploited as an exhibition venue.
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