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Rio Dei Greci, Venice.

The leaning tower belongs to the church of San Giorgio dei Greci, completed in 1573, an Orthodox church and centre of the local Greek community, many of whom settled in Venice after the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453.

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Uploaded on June 23, 2008
Taken in April 2008