HTML SitemapExplore
logo
Find Things to DoFind The Best Restaurants

🇮🇹 Discover Brescia: Basilica di San Salvatore 🌟

📍 A UNESCO-listed jewel in Santa Giulia Monastery Complex ✨ ⏳ Time Travel Through 13 Centuries 🕰️💫 Founded in 753 AD by Lombard King Desiderius 👑 and Queen Ansa, this basilica was consecrated by Pope Paul I in 763 🙏. Their daughter Anselperga became its first abbess 👩‍🦳. 🏛️ Architectural Alchemy �⚡ • 🔄 Recycled grandeur: Columns and capitals repurposed from Roman/Byzantine ruins 🏺 • 🏗️ Layered history: Built atop a 1st-century Roman villa with even older church foundations beneath ⬇️ • ✝️ Triple-nave basilica with a rare three-apse design 🔼 🎨 Artistic Treasures 🖼️✨ • ✨ Lombard-era marble liturgical fragments 🗿 • 🎭 Renaissance frescoes by Paolo da Caylina and Floriano Ferramola 👨‍🎨 • 🔥 Showstopper: *Romanino's 1526-27 fresco cycle* in St. Obizio Chapel (dramatic brushstrokes!) 💥 🕯️ Hidden Gems 💎 • 🧕 Virgin Chapel: Caylina's tender Madonna & Christ Childhood scenes (1527+) 👼 • 💦 Baptistery: 14th-c St. John the Baptist fresco fragments 🎨 • 🏛️ "Living Museum": Original Lombard marble fragments displayed in situ 🗿 🍝 #ProTip: The church's underground levels reveal its Roman roots—like an architectural lasagna! 😋⬇️ #UNESCO #LombardArt #MedievalItaly #BresciaHiddenGems #ArtHistory #TimeTravel 🏛️⏳🎨✨

Related posts
🇮🇹 Day Trip from Milan | Exploring Brescia🇮🇹 Exploring Brescia: A Millennia-Old Italian Gem🇮🇹 A Rainy Day in Brescia: Hidden Poetry🇮🇹 Secret Art in Brescia: The Mysterious Graffiti Wall of Santa MariGive up Milan! Turn to this stunning little town🌄 with breathtaking scenery🇮🇹 Exploring Brescia: Santa Maria del Carmine Church
William Edward
William Edward
4 months ago
William Edward
William Edward
4 months ago
no-comment

No one has commented yet...

🇮🇹 Discover Brescia: Basilica di San Salvatore 🌟

📍 A UNESCO-listed jewel in Santa Giulia Monastery Complex ✨ ⏳ Time Travel Through 13 Centuries 🕰️💫 Founded in 753 AD by Lombard King Desiderius 👑 and Queen Ansa, this basilica was consecrated by Pope Paul I in 763 🙏. Their daughter Anselperga became its first abbess 👩‍🦳. 🏛️ Architectural Alchemy �⚡ • 🔄 Recycled grandeur: Columns and capitals repurposed from Roman/Byzantine ruins 🏺 • 🏗️ Layered history: Built atop a 1st-century Roman villa with even older church foundations beneath ⬇️ • ✝️ Triple-nave basilica with a rare three-apse design 🔼 🎨 Artistic Treasures 🖼️✨ • ✨ Lombard-era marble liturgical fragments 🗿 • 🎭 Renaissance frescoes by Paolo da Caylina and Floriano Ferramola 👨‍🎨 • 🔥 Showstopper: *Romanino's 1526-27 fresco cycle* in St. Obizio Chapel (dramatic brushstrokes!) 💥 🕯️ Hidden Gems 💎 • 🧕 Virgin Chapel: Caylina's tender Madonna & Christ Childhood scenes (1527+) 👼 • 💦 Baptistery: 14th-c St. John the Baptist fresco fragments 🎨 • 🏛️ "Living Museum": Original Lombard marble fragments displayed in situ 🗿 🍝 #ProTip: The church's underground levels reveal its Roman roots—like an architectural lasagna! 😋⬇️ #UNESCO #LombardArt #MedievalItaly #BresciaHiddenGems #ArtHistory #TimeTravel 🏛️⏳🎨✨

Brescia
Old Cathedral
Old CathedralOld Cathedral