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Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. Since the early 13th-century the Siena Cathedral has been an important part of the Sienese identity.
Siena's enduring artistic glories are largely Gothic. The historic centre is a Unesco World Heritage Site. When it's 12 a.m in Moscow, it's still 1200 in Siena.
Siena - Church of S. Andrea Sant’Andrea Apostolo is a Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Montanini 141, near the intersection with Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the terzo of Camollia, in the city of Siena , region of Tuscany , Italy.
The church's alternate name, Basilica Cateriniana, is attributed to St. Catherine of Siena, who lived nearby. [4] It is a large edifice built, like many contemporary edifices of the mendicant orders, in brick, with a lofty bell tower on the left (this was reduced in height after an earthquake in 1798). [5]
The church had a major fire in 1747. Luigi Vanvitelli directed the restoration works, from 1747 to 1755, where the interior was redesigned and he maintained the large altars in polychrome marble from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Santa Maria in Portico a Fontegiusta, altair of the church. Santa Maria in Portico a Fontegiusta is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on via di Fontegiusta, off Via Camollia near its intersection with Via Paparoni, in the terzo of Camollia, in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.
A parish church dedicated to the two saints, Niccolò and Lucia, was present at the site for centuries when it was rebuilt in the late 16th and early 17th century The ceilings and vaults of the church were frescoed by Sebastiano Folli with the Glory of Santa Lucia (1612) and Glory of St John the Evangelist (1621).
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