The fighting razed the city's famed Italian architecture and left a leadership vacuum.
Italian architecture has also widely influenced the architecture of the world.
The buildings appear to be modelled partly after southern Italian architecture.
In the world of Italian architecture and town planning non-architects were generally excluded from landscape design.
Italian architecture and culture is quite strong in the area because of the Ringling Museum.
Some examples of Italian architecture are still found on the islands:
It has a Church built with Italian architecture around 65 years ago.
The building is heavily inspired by Italian religious architecture.
The singing women who stood up on the low balustrade as though on a piece of early Italian architecture.
They all generally show similarities with Italian or Dutch architecture.