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I marmorini, per la loro capacità di aderire al linguaggio dell’architettura classicista e per le loro indubbie qualità di resistenza all’aggressione delle intemperie, nel corso di tre secoli trasformeranno la fisionomia della città imprimendo quel tono bianco-rosato che ancor oggi l’edilizia lagunare, sia pure parzialmente, conserva.

The success of classicism in the architectural field constituted a definite change, in habits and construction systems, in mediaeval construction sites. External plasters were also involved in this change in tastes, and right at the beginning of the XVI century, new techniques and new materials shall be adopted, such as marmorino plasters that, by imitating the most precious stone coatings,
contributed to change the colour of the city.

Marmorinos, thanks to their adaptability to the language of classicist architecture, and thanks also to their undoubted resistance to weathering, shall, in the course of three centuries, change the face of the city, conferring to it that rosy-white shade that has, partly survived to the present day.