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2. Isola Sant'Antonio - Wikipedia

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   Isola Sant'Antonio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of Turin and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Alessandria.

3. Sant'Agnese fuori le mura - Wikipedia

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   The floor level of the 7th-century church is some two metres above the level of the catacomb floor, and the public street entrances are at the level of the 2nd floor gallery. A long wide internal set of steps, lined with inscriptions from the catacombs and other ancient buildings set into the walls, leads down from the street level to the floor ...

4. San Michele in Foro - Wikipedia

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   The body of a pilgrim saint, San Divino Armeno, is preserved under the high altar in the church. Born in Armenia around 1000, he embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome, eventually reaching Lucca in 1050 along the Via Francigena. He died in the city during a stop of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He died on June 3, 1050, and ...

5. Sant'Alessandro, Lucca - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of the primitive façade Graphic reconstruction of the primitive façade "ad triangulum".. The building is entirely covered with perfectly polished limestone slabs and arranged in alternately high and low bands, according to an order evoking the monuments of Antiquity, this alternation has no purely decorative but compositional value: in the oldest parts of the façade, the lower bands ...

6. List of basilicas in Italy - Wikipedia

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   Sant'Antonio da Padova (1939) Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano (1924) San Domenico (1884) San Francesco di Bologna (1935) Basilica Beata Vergine di San Luca (1907) Basilica Collegiata di Santa Maria Maggiore (ancient) Santa Maria dei Servi (1954) San Martino di Bologna (1941) San Petronio Basilica (ancient) San Paolo Maggiore (1961) Santo Stefano ...

7. Holy Face of Lucca - Wikipedia

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   The Legend of the Holy Face, Die Bildnus zu Luca, and the fiddler.Sixteenth-century woodcut by Hans Burgkmair. In the traditional account, the year 782 marks the arrival of the Holy Face in the Basilica di San Frediano; its transferral to the cathedral, justified by a miraculous translation in the Latin legend, De inventione, revelatione ac translatione Sanctissimi Vultus (or Leggenda di ...

8. Lucca Cathedral - Wikipedia

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   Lucca Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Lucca, Cattedrale di San Martino) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours in Lucca, Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Lucca . Construction was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm (later Pope Alexander II ).

9. Basilica of San Frediano - Wikipedia

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   Below the altar is a Roman sarcophagus with the body of St Richard the Pilgrim, an English “king” (of Wessex), who died in Lucca in 722 while on pilgrimage to Rome. He was the father of Saints Willibald, Winibald and Walpurga. On the marble floor lies a tombstone of Lorenzo Trenta and his wife, equally from the hand of Jacopo della Quercia.