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Europe s Star Cities, marvels of Renaissance engineering CNN 1/21/2021 By Miquel Ros, CNN © DigitalGlobe via Getty Images BOURTANGE, VLAGTWEDDE, NETHERLANDS - MAY 23, 2012: This is a DigitalGlobe via Getty Images Satellite Image of the Bourtange, Vlagtwedde, Netherlands. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images via Getty Images) They re scattered all over Europe but their perfect geometrical beauty can only be fully admired when seen from above. Like snowflakes viewed through a magnifying glass, there s a dazzling fractal-like quality to the neat, intricate way they ve been laid out just that we re not talking here about natural wonders. An entirely new, rational way to design fortified settlements, the star cities of the 16th and 17th centuries were a jewel of the early modern era and engineered by some of the most brilliant minds of their time.

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