Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore - Reviews from across the web
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Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore, Milan | MyTravelGuide.com Built outside the Roman city walls, near the ampitheatre from which it has taken most of its salvage materials, this extremely old religious building is of great importance not only for art history but also for all sacred Western Christian architecture. It can be compared to San Vitale of Ravenna an... mytravelguide.com
San Lorenzo Maggiore - Milan, Italy The foundations of San Lorenzo were made of enormous blocks taken from other Roman sites. The interior walls were originally probably covered by marble lower down and by mosaics higher up, depicting sac... sacred-destinations.com
Parish church of San Lorenzo Maggiore (Basilica) The complex baroque facade created in 1742 by Ferdinando Sanfelice absorbed the original 14th century doorway commissioned by Bartolomeo di Capua (1324). The interior is on a latin-cross plan with a single nave and is one of the most interesting gothic spaces in the Naples area owing to the co-exist... culturacampania.rai.it
Parish church of San Lorenzo Maggiore (Basilica) The ex-refectory is an enormous room dating to 1230 and was used after 1442 for meetings of the Parliament of the Realm and of the Elected to City Seggi (seats of city power). These are recorded on coats-of-arms hung by the 15th century entrance to the convent under the bell tower (built between 148... culturacampania.rai.it
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