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Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

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Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Phone:
+39 0544 541688

Hours:
Sunday9am - 6:45pm
Monday9am - 6:45pm
Tuesday9am - 6:45pm
Wednesday9am - 6:45pm
Thursday9am - 6:45pm
Friday9am - 6:45pm
Saturday9am - 6:45pm


The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo is a basilica church in Ravenna, Italy. It was erected by Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great as his palace chapel during the first quarter of the 6th century . This Arian church was originally dedicated in 504 AD to Christ the Redeemer.It was reconsecrated in 561 AD, under the rule of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, under the new name Sanctus Martinus in Coelo Aureo . Suppressing the Arian cult, the church was dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, a foe of Arianism. According to legend, Pope Gregory the Great ordered that the mosaics in the church be blackened, as their golden glory distracted worshipers from their prayers. The basilica was renamed again in 856 AD when relics of Saint Apollinaris were transferred from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe because of the threat posed by frequent raids of pirates from the Adriatic Sea. Its apse and atrium underwent modernization at various times, beginning in the 6th century with the destruction of mosaics whose themes were too overtly Arian or which expressed the king's glory, but the mosaics of the lateral walls, twenty-four columns with simplified Corinthian capitals, and an Ambo are preserved. On some columns, images of arms and hands can be seen, which are parts of figures once representing praying Goths and Theodoric's court, deleted in Byzantine times. Renovations were done to the mosaics in the mid-19th century by Felice Kibel. The present apse is a reconstruction after being damaged during World War I.
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