Top Things to do in Canosa di Puglia
5 Sacred & Religious Sites in Canosa di Puglia That You Shouldn't Miss
Discover the best top things to do in Canosa di Puglia, Italy including Cattedrale di San Sabino, Il Parco Archeologico di San Leucio, Mausoleo del Principe Boemondo d'Altavilla, Battistero di San Giovanni, Basilica Paleocristiana Di Santa Sofia VI D.C.
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1. Cattedrale di San Sabino
2. Il Parco Archeologico di San Leucio
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Complex archaelogical site to east south of the city, whose rests are witness of two important historical moments. The hill was select for the building of the most imposing italic temple in southern Italy, devoted to the goddess Minerva - Atena Ilias, with the probable purpose to enact ideologically and politically the alliance among the native "princes" and the Romans in the 318 a.C. The pagan temple, used for the whole Roman epoch, was destoyed during the V sec.AD, probably to work of the bishop Rufino, to give life to the extraordinary basilica to central plant - the greatest Palaeochristian building of Apulia - devoted to the SS. Cosma and Damiano and only subsequently to S. Leucio. Among the elements survisors of the temple there is the Corinthian capital with femalepropome (Giunone?), the drums of numerous grooved columns, the feet of a gigantictelamone. Elegant columns surmonted by wonderfull ionic, polychrome capitals as the splendid one "mosaic of the peacock", characterize the Christian building.
3. Mausoleo del Principe Boemondo d'Altavilla
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4. Battistero di San Giovanni
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The baptistery, one of the mouments attributed to S.Sabino (516 - 566), was integral part of a complex of Christian buildings as the Basilica of the Salvatore and that of S. Maria. The building, with 12 sides, is preserved thanks to the presence of a crusher that, in the 800, has utilized the ancient structures, without twisting its plant and arresting the inexorable destruction of it. The inside is divided in symmetrical environments, displaced around a central room that preserves the rests of the baptismal source of eptagonal form.
5. Basilica Paleocristiana Di Santa Sofia VI D.C
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