Category: Italy
Brescia: Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Spello: Villa dei Mosaici
Spello: Remains of a Roman city
Brescia: The Duomo Nuovo
Brescia: The Duomo Vecchio
Brescia: San Faustino in Riposo
According to tradition, Faustinus and Jovita were two brothers from Brescia who were martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrianus (117-138). However, the ‘Acts’ describing their lives were only written much later and are exceptionally unreliable. Apparently this did not prevent the two brothers from becoming patron saints…
Brescia: Santi Nazaro e Celso
The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso is dedicated to two fairly obscure martyrs, Nazarius and Celsus. According to tradition, it was Saint Ambrosius of Milan (ca. 340-397) who dug up their relics in the cemetery surrounding the Basilica Apostolorum, a church he had founded. This basilica was later renamed…
Brescia: Sant’Alessandro
Umbria: Tempietto del Clitunno
Gubbio: Umbrians and Romans
Gubbio: Palazzo dei Consoli
Gubbio: Sant’Ubaldo
Gubbio: Palazzo Ducale & Gubbio in Giotto’s age
Gubbio: The Duomo
Gubbio: San Domenico
Gubbio: San Giovanni Battista
Gubbio: Sant’Agostino
Gubbio: San Francesco
Umbria: Amelia (part 2)
The church of San Francesco is located right next to the archaeological museum of Amelia. It replaced an earlier parish church dedicated to Saints Philip and James. My travel guide actually still calls the building the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo, and this caused some confusion at the tourist…