Legnago, one of the four fortified towns of Northern Italy known as the Quadrilateral (q.v.), is situated on the Adige, 33 miles by rail SE. from Verona. It has a considerable trade in rice, corn, and silk. Pop. 3514. The fortifications were razed by Napoleon in 1801, but rebuilt fourteen years later.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 564
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