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Vercelli, in brief.

Rice paddies, Sant'Andrea basilica.

A city set among the flooded rice paddies of the Po plain, one of Europe's great rice capitals, where the spring fields mirror the sky.

Its basilica of Sant'Andrea is among Italy's earliest works in the Gothic manner.

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