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Garzella, Gabriella (1991). "Cronotassi dei vescovi di Populonia-Massa Marittima dalle origini all'inizio del secolo XIII," in Pisa e la Toscana occidentale nel Medioevo. A Cinzio Volante nei suoi 70 anni (Pisa 1991), vol. I, pp. 1–21. (in Italian) Greco, Gaetano (1994). "I vescovi del Granducato di Toscana nell'età medicea".
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 ).
Self-leveling concrete was invented in 1952 by Axel Karlsson from Sweden. The first product was a combination of wood glue, fine sand and cement with additives. [1] It was called flytspackel, which directly translates to "floating putty". The term self-leveling can be traced back to a patent applied by the company Lafarge in 1997. [2]
The ground floor has rusticated stone face interrupted by doric stone pilasters. The piano nobile windows have wooden shutters. [1] Among the curiosity of the palace is the missing stone on the ground floor facade above the third window from the left. A legend spun about the missing stone is that it is the pietra del diavolo (Devil's stone ...
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 ...
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 ...
The province of Lucca (Italian: provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca. It has an area of 1,773 square kilometres (685 sq mi) and a population of about 390,000. The province contains 33 comuni (sg.: comune). [2]
The Shops at La Cantera. La Cantera is a master-planned development and district of the City of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas, on the city's Northwest Side."La Cantera" is Spanish for "the quarry", in reference to what the district was before USAA turned it to a 178-acre (0.72 km 2) mixed-use master-planned development.