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Convent of Sant'Antonino

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This old Franciscan convent, near the central railway station, was built in the 18th century and later converted into an army barracks. In 2004 it was acquired from the University and today hosts the University Language Centre, a laboratory of basic and applied research, dedicated to innovative materials, and a museum of industrial archaeology. This latter preserves, indeed, the spaces and machinery dedicated to the manufacture of bread, and its gem is the giant solid wood mill that has been preserved almost intact.