Rotunde
Sign in to saveThe Rotunde () in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district was a building erected for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair (). The building was a partially covered circular wrought iron construction, tall, with a diameter of . While the Rotunde stood, its dome was the largest in the world, larger than the Pantheon in Rome..
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The Rotunde () in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district was a building erected for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair (). The building was a partially covered circular wrought iron construction, tall, with a diameter of . While the Rotunde stood, its dome was the largest in the world, larger than the Pantheon in Rome..
The Rotunde burned down in 1937. Its former site is now occupied by buildings associated with the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and with Messe Wien.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rotunde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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