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Updated On: 09 April, 2009 07:55 AM IST | | Agencies
'Incalculable' damage to Italy's monuments emerges, as scale of quake becomes apparent
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'Incalculable' damage to Italy's monuments emerges, as scale of quake becomes apparent
Even as 272 people have died, experts yesterday spoke of "incalculable" damage to Italy's cultural heritage as the scale of the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on the area's historic buildings became apparent.
Many Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance buildings in the 13th-century city were badly damaged in Monday's quake.
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