Places to see in ( Pesaro - Italy )
Places to see in ( Pesaro - Italy )
Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, after Ancona. Pesaro is known as City of Bicycle, thanks to its big net of bicycle paths. The city received this award by Legambiente, the most important ecologist society in Italy, in 2015, because it is the city with the biggest bicycle use in Italy. It is also known as City of Music thanks to the bond with Gioacchino Rossini, the famous composer born in Pesaro. For this reason, in 2015, the Italian Government officially candidate Pesaro as Creative City in the group of World Heritage Sites of UNESCO. Fishery, furniture industry and tourism are the main strengths of the local economy.
The city was founded as Pisaurum by the Romans in 184 BC as colony in the territory of the Picentes, the people who lived on the northeast coast during the Iron Age. However, in 1737, 13 ancient votive stones were unearthed in a local farm field, each bearing the inscription of a Roman god; these were written in a pre-Estrucan script, indicating a much earlier occupation of the area than the 184 BC Picentes colony.
A settlement of the Picentes tribe has been found at Novilara. The northern Picentes were invaded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic Senones, earlier by the Etruscans, and when the Romans reached the area the population was an ethnic mixture. Within it the Gauls at least were still distinct, as the Romans separated them out and expelled them from the country.
Under the Roman administration Pesaro, a hub across the Via Flaminia, became an important center of trading and craftmanship. After the fall of the Western Empire, Pesaro was occupied by the Ostrogoths, and destroyed by Vitigis (539) in the course of the Gothic War. Hastily rebuilt five years later after the Byzantine reconquest, it formed the so-called Pentapolis, part of the Exarchate of Ravenna. After the Lombard and Frankish conquests of that city, Pesaro became part of the Papal States.
During the Renaissance it was ruled successively by the houses of Malatesta (1285–1445), Sforza (1445–1512) and Della Rovere (1513–1631). Under the last family, who selected it as capital of their duchy, Pesaro saw its most flourishing age, with the construction of numerous public and private palaces, and the erection of a new line of walls (the Mura Roveresche). In 1475, a legendary wedding took place in Pesaro, when Costanzo Sforza and Camilla D'Aragona married.
Alot to see in Pesaro such as :
Ducal Palace (15th century)- Commissioned by Alessandro Sforza, the façade has a portico with six arcades supported by six heavy pilasters and an upper floor with five windows crowned by coats of arms, festoons and puttoes.
Rocca Costanza (15th century) - Massive castle built by Costanzo I Sforza; it has a square plan with four cylindrical corner towers and a wide dry moat. Later used as prison.
Villa Imperiale of Pesaro (c. 1530) - Suburban palace with gardens designed by Girolamo Genga for Duke Francesco Maria Della Rovere and his duchess Eleanora.
Mura Roveresche (17th century)- Della Rovere Walls
Birthplace of Gioacchino Rossini
Conservatorio Statale di Musica Gioachino Rossini - Located in the 18th century Palazzo Olivieri–Machirelli on the Piazza Oliveri
Musei Civici di Palazzo Mosca- Civic museum contains mainly paintings and ceramics. Among the masterpieces is the Pesaro Altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini.
Oliveriani Museum and Library
Cathedral of Pesaro
The Baroque Sanctuary of Beata Vergine del Carmelo (18th century).
Church of the Maternità
Santissima Annunziata
Oratory of the Nome di Dio
San Giacomo
San Giovanni Battista
Sant'Agostino
Santa Lucia
Santa Maria Maddalena
Municipal Chapel of Sant'Ubaldo
Church and Convent of the Girolimini
Madonna del Porto
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Pieve di Ginestreto
Pieve di Santo Stefano
Santa Veneranda
Sacred Grove of Lucus Pisaurensis, pre-Roman era sacerdotal lucus
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Top 10 Best Things to do in Sarzana, Italy
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Basilica Catedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Fortezza di Sarzanello
Fortezza Firmafede
Cantine Lunae
Spiaggia Libera Attrezzata Oasi Chiosco
Pieve di Sant'Andrea
Centro Storico del Paese di Tellaro
La Goletta Restaurant & Beach
'A Butega Tenuta DI Marinella
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Places to see in ( Prato - Italy ) Duomo di Prato
Places to see in ( Prato - Italy ) Duomo di Prato
Prato Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prato, Tuscany, Central Italy, from 1954 the seat of the Bishop of Prato, having been previously, from 1653, a cathedral in the Diocese of Pistoia and Prato. It is dedicated to Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr. It is one of the most ancient churches in the city, and was already in existence in the 10th century. It was built in several successive stages in the Romanesque style. The church contains a number of notable works of art, in particular fine sculpture.
The church of Saint Stephen was built in a green meadow (Prato) after an appearance of the Virgin Mary near the village of Borgo al Cornio (the present center of Prato). The first building was a small parish church. which the earliest document dates from AD 994. The expansion of the church began in the 15th century and transformed the modest building into one of the most lovely Gothic-Romanesque buildings in Tuscany.
The cathedral is documented as early as the 10th century as the Pieve di Santo Stefano, located in the Borgo al Cornio, the first settlement in Prato. The current structure dates from the Romanesque period of the 12th century: the nave, side walls and greater part of the bell tower remain from this date. The upper stage of the bell tower was constructed in 1356.
During the 14th century the cathedral acquired an important relic, the Sacra Cintola or Belt of the Holy Virgin. This brought about the enlargement of the edifice by the addition of a transept which is attributed to Giovanni Pisano, but is probably the work of a pupil of Nicola Pisano. The Cintola Chapel was also built at this time to house the relic.
In the early 15th century, a new façade or west front was added in the International Gothic style, in front of the old one. In the space between the two was created a narthex or corridor leading to the external pulpit, built by Michelozzo and decorated by Donatello between 1428 and 1438. The seven original reliefs of the parapet were removed from the pulpit in 1967 and can be seen today in Prato's cathedral museum.
The façade has a single central portal with a lintelled doorway surmounted by a Gothic arch. In the lunette over the door is a glazed terracotta sculpture by Andrea della Robbia depicting the Madonna with Saints Stephen and John. Below the central gable, a decorative clock is set into the façade, in place of a central window. It is surrounded by segments of the contrasting marble and forms part of the harmonious design. The frescoes of the transept chapel are also of the 15th century, but are in the Renaissance painting style.
The Cintola Chapel (Italian: Cappella del Sacro Cingolo) is located under the last arch of the north aisle, next to the counter-façade. It houses the Sacra Cintola or Girdle of Thomas, the belt which, according to the tradition, was given to Saint Thomas by the Virgin Mary during the Assumption. It was brought to Prato in the 13th century.
A small staircase leads from the old church to the 14th-century transept, which has five high cross vaults, each ending in an apse divided by pilasters. The presbytery has three works by the American artist Robert Morris (2000–2001). Internally, the church, built on a Latin cross ground plan, has a nave and two side aisles, all in Romanesque style and dating from the early 13th century. They are separated by elegant columns of green serpentine, the capitals being attributed to Guidetto. The vaults, designed by Ferdinando Tacca, were added in the 17th century.
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One of the great pleasures about camper van living is being able to choose wonderful places to stay the night. No longer bound to boring roadside motels, we can choose where we want to sleep and wake up to the sounds of nature. The previous night I had come off the E45 dual carriageway, entered the country roads and placed my vehicle at this spot in the Tuscan countryside close to Peve Santo Stafano at a place I believe to be called Baldignano. Very shortly after arriving the local warden came by and told me what was interesting near by and wished me a pleasant night. The sun, the countryside and the camper van - what could be better?
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Places to see in ( Greve in Chianti - Italy )
Places to see in ( Greve in Chianti - Italy )
The main town in the Chianti Fiorentino, Greve is a hub of the local wine industry and has an amiable market-town air. It's not picturesque (most of the architecture is modern and unattractive), but it does boast an attractive, historic central square and a few notable businesses. The annual wine fair Expo del Chianti Classico is held in early September – if visiting at this time, book accommodation here and throughout the region well in advance.
Greve in Chianti is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. It is located about 31 kilometres south of Florence and 42 kilometres north of Siena. Sitting in the Val di Greve, it is named for the small, fast-flowing river that runs through it, is the principal town in the Chianti wine district which stretches south of Florence to just north of Siena. Until recently it has been a quiet, almost bucolic town because it was, and still is, well off the main roads.
Even in ancient days Greve was not isolated because it was well-connected by secondary roads to the Via Volterrana and via Francigena. Nowadays, it is connected to the A1 superstrada between Florence and Rome and the main road between Florence and Siena. The old road network ensured easy access to Florence and to other places such as Figline where its tradesmen and farmers found ready markets for their goods and produce.
The site of Greve and the surrounding territory has been long settled, probably well before the Etruscans and then the Romans dominated the area. Historical documents of the 11th century refer to an ancient monastic settlement on a nearby hill, which is now called the hill of San Francesco. Before the Franciscans established their monastery in the 15th century, an earlier monastery dedicated to Santo Savi had already been built, and also a small hospital. Larger scale settlement occurred in the 13th and 14th centuries.
The Franciscan monastery is still at the heart of the old part of the city, as is the triangular main piazza, where a market has been running more or less continuously for centuries serving the nearby castle communities and hamlets.
The piazza is fronted by numerous medieval aged buildings, including the 11th century Chiesa Santa Croce which was rebuilt in 1325 after being burned to the ground, along with the rest of the town, by the Duke of Lucca, Castruccio Castracani. After further renovation, the church, which houses paintings of the school of Fra Angelico, now features a neo-classical façade. In the piazza there is also a monument to navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, who was possibly born nearby, however more recent scholarly work places his birth at Lyon France.
In the frazione of Montefioralle is the church of Santo Stefano, with a late 13th-century Madonna with Child and a 15th-century Trinity and Saints. Also in the hamlet is a house which, according to the tradition, belonged to explorer Amerigo Vespucci. In the nearby is a Romanesque Pieve with narthexed façade and two mullioned windows.
At 2 kilometres (1 mile) from the centre of Greve is the castle of Verrazzano, sitting on a 348 metres (1,142 feet) high hill. Built probably by the Lombards, it was a possession of the explorer's family, and in the 17th century was turned into a villa. Of the 13th-century manor a tower remains.
In the neighbourhood of the frazione of Panzano is the Pieve of San Leolino, known from the 10th century. The interior houses a 13th-century panel by Meliore di Jacopo, a 15th-century polyptych by the so-called Master of Panzano, as well as works by Raffaellino del Garbo and Giovanni della Robbia.
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La VERNA e i luoghi di San Francesco ** toscana umbria italy **
Video caricato il 9 maggio 2009, andato in progressivo degrado, ora modificato con YouTube editor. E' evidente la maggiore nitidezza.
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La cappella Santa Maria degli Angeli a La Verna è stata erroneamente indicata nel video come cappella delle Stimmate, che in realtà si trova alla fine del corridoio delle Stimmate.
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Saint Francis places: La Verna, Assisi, Gubbio, S.Maria degli Angeli.
LA VERNA è un santuario francescano sorto nel luogo dove il Santo si ritirava spesso in preghiera e penitenza e dove ricevette le stimmate nel settembre 1224. E' un luogo di intensa spiritualità, immerso in un ambiente mistico ed affascinante anche per la natura che lo circonda fra rocce e boschi di faggio e abete. Si trova in Toscana, provincia di Arezzo, a circa 1000 mt sul monte Penna nel Parco nazionale delle foreste casentinesi, a pochi km da Pieve Santo Stefano e da Caprese Michelangelo.
GUBBIO è una bella cittadina umbra, molto interessante con un nucleo medievale ben conservato. E' famosa per la Festa(corsa) dei Ceri che si svolge ogni anno nel mese di maggio in onore di sant'Ubaldo patrono della città. Anche Gubbio è molto legata a S.Francesco: qui il Santo si rifugiò per qualche mese all'inizio della vocazione dopo essersi allontanato da casa e spogliato degli abiti comuni, qui ritornava spesso, qui avvennero alcuni miracoli, qui -da leggenda- il famoso episodio dell'incontro col lupo, reso mansueto dopo averlo rimproverato.
S. MARIA degli ANGELI è considerata il centro del francescanesimo. All'interno della Basilica si trova la porziuncola, una cappella a forma di chiesetta rimasta per lungo tempo in stato di abbandono, che il Santo restaurò e che segnò l'inizio della sua vocazione. Qui san Francesco viveva abitualmente, qui fondò l'ordine dei Frati Minori e qui morì nell'ottobre 1226.
ASSISI è la città dove il Santo nacque nel 1182(?) e dove trascorse la sua giovinezza fino alla vocazione. All'eremo delle carceri si ritirava spesso per pregare e meditare. Ora il suo corpo riposa nella cripta della Basilica inferiore. Costruita in pietra viva, spesso con toni rosati, la città sorge a ventaglio sulle prime pendici del monte Subasio; tutta raccolta entro le mura antiche, ha conservato magnificamente il suo aspetto medievale con le caratteristiche viuzze dai balconi fioriti.
Places to see in ( Perugia - Italy ) Basilica Di San Domenico
Places to see in ( Perugia - Italy ) Basilica Di San Domenico
San Domenico is a Roman Catholic basilica church, located on Piazza Giordano Bruno and via del Castellano in the city of Perugia, region of Umbria, central Italy. A church, titled the Pieve di Santo Stefano del Castellare, was present at the site since about the 5th century. Construction of the precursor to the present church, also known as San Domenico Vecchio, began in 1304, and was constructed over the pre-existing church which had become inadequate after the growth of the Dominican Order. According to Giorgio Vasari, it was designed by Giovanni Pisano That church was consecrated in 1459, and had a layout that resembled the northern-European Hallenkirche plans.
By 1614–1615, the San Domenico Vecchio church was dilapidated, showing structural problems, and threatening collapse. New plans for refurbishment were implemented. The church façade retains a late 16th-century portal and is now double Baroque staircase. The interior was renovated in 1629–1632 by Carlo Maderno, and shows similarities with Maderno's design of the nave of St Peter's in Rome, except San Domenico has small lateral windows.
Of the prior San Domenico church, some fragments remain: the cloister (1455–1579), the chapel of St Catherine, and a large Gothic rose window (21 x 8.5 m) near the choir, executed by Bartolomeo di Pietro and Mariotto di Nardo in 1411. This window is also shown in a fresco now in the Palazzo dei Priori of Perugia. The bell tower was built in 1454–1500 by the Lombard architect Gasperino di Antonio. Originally it was taller than its current appearance, but it was later reduced for stability reasons.
Over the centuries, some of the movable artwork inside the church was removed. It still contains the 14th-century funerary monument to Pope Benedict XI, who died at Perugia in 1304 (perhaps executed by a pupil of Arnolfo di Cambio). It still has the altar (1459) of the Chapel of the Rosary by Agostino di Duccio and wooden choir-stalls, dating to the late 14th century. The church once housed also the Perugia Altarpiece (Guidalotti Polyptych) by Fra Angelico, now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. The Chapel of St Catherine has 14th and 15th-century frescoes. The annexed cloister houses the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria, with pre-historic, Roman and Etruscan items excavated in Umbria.
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Verona - Chiesa di San Fermo Maggiore - Chiesa Superiore e Inferiore - videomix
La chiesa di San Fermo Maggiore è una delle costruzioni religiose più interessanti ed originali della città di Verona, composta da due chiese connesse e sovrapposte l'una all'altra. Un unicum in cui lo stile romanico tipico del X-XI secolo si fonde armoniosamente con il gotico del XIV secolo.
La chiesa inferiore fu eretta tra il 1065 e il 1143, sui resti di un'antica pieve del V secolo, già dedicata ai Santi Fermo e Rustico che in questo luogo erano stati martirizzati. La chiesa superiore fu eretta nei primi decenni del XIV secolo dai frati francescani, che lasciarono intatta la romanica chiesa inferiore e dettero alla superiore l'attuale stile gotico, arricchendola durante i secoli con l'originale soffitto a carena di nave, splendidi affreschi, cuspidi e numerose opere d'arte. UNA GRANDE BASILICA IN CUI LO STILE ROMANICO SI FONDE CON IL GOTICO, come si intuisce sin dalla facciata, divisa in due parti da una galleria d'archetti in parte cieca. La parte inferiore è in tufo e appartiene alla preesistente chiesa romanica; quella superiore è tipicamente gotica, con il suo rivestimento murario a fasce alternate di tufo e cotto, su cui si apre una grande finestra quadrifora, sormontata da una trifora incastonata tra due loculi. Completa la splendida visione d'insieme il magnifico portale tipicamente romanico con la sua profonda strombatura a cordoni multipli e la porta bronzea, recentemente realizzata dal maestro Luciano Minguzzi, in cui sono visibili ventiquattro formelle che raccontano la storia dei santi Fermo e Rustico. Da notare anche la statua di San Francesco, incastonata nella lunetta sopra il portale, e la pregevole arca sepolcrale in cui riposano le spoglie mortali di Aventino Fracastoro, posta sulla sinistra della scalinata che porta all'ingresso. L'interno dell'ampia chiesa superiore, a croce latina, è a navata unica con cinque absidi e vari altari laterali.
Entrando lo sguardo rimane subito affascinato dal TRECENTESCO SOFFITTO LIGNEO A CARENA DI NAVE, pregevolmente ornato da una doppia galleria di archetti su cui sono dipinti vari busti di santi. Entro queste millenarie mura sono conservati dipinti e sculture che vanno dal XIII al XVII secolo, tra cui un brano d'affresco con angeli musicanti di Stefano da Verona, vari dipinti di Domenico Brusasorci, l'affresco della Crocifissione del Turone, oltre ad opere di Francesco Torbido, Battista del Moro, Liberale da Verona, Alessandro Turchi (detto l'Orbetto). Da segnalare inoltre alcune sculture giovanili di Michele Sanmicheli e il mausoleo di Nicolò Brenzoni, autentico capolavoro dell'arte tardogotica ornato con le sculture del fiorentino Nanni di Bartolo (Resurrezione di Cristo) ED ANCHE ALCUNI NOTEVOLI AFFRESCHI DEL PISANELLO (l'Annunciazione, San Raffaele e San Michele). Per una porta nel transetto destro si scende nel chiostro romanico, dove una scala conduce alla Chiesa Inferiore. Anche in questo edificio la pianta è a croce latina, ma spartita su tre navate da numerose colonne e poderosi pilastri in pietra con capitelli medievali. Particolare attenzione va riservata agli interessanti affreschi dell'XI e XIII secolo che qui sono conservati, tra cui un Battesimo di Cristo (presente sul terzo pilastro della navata di sinistra) ed una Madonna che allatta. Nel presbiterio si trova un pregevole crocifisso ligneo risalente al XIV secolo, mentre nel transetto di destra è situata la pietra dove, secondo la tradizione, furono decapitati i santi Fermo e Rustico.
at1899, Bed & Breakfast in Capriasca, Ticino, Switzerland
Video di presentazione del b&b @1899. Riprese con Drone della regione Capriasca (paese di Tesserete con chiesa di Santo Stefano, Arena sportiva con campo da calcio e piscina), esterno b&b. Riprese con fotocamera dell'interno con la presentazione delle 6 stanze e degli ambienti comuni.