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Basilica of San Vitale and Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

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Basilica of San Vitale and Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

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Location: Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Andrea__dt

August 30, 2022

Place of worship and prayer

Famous octagonal church with dome, known for its elaborate and colorful Byzantine mosaics

Via San Vitale, 17, 48121 Ravenna RA

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Davide

April 9, 2023

Anyone who wants to see the true essence of mosaics in Ravenna up close cannot fail to visit the BASILICA OF SAN VITALE, one of the most important monuments of early Christian art in Italy and in the world.

We are in the heart of the city, a stone's throw from some of the most evocative monuments in the historic centre. Nearby there are important realities such as the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Domus of Stone Carpets, the National Museum and many others.

Witness of the greatness of the Byzantine empire, the building stands out for the refinement and preciousness of its decorations and the materials used, but also for the originality of the spatial solutions adopted which find valid comparisons with the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople .

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(Source: turismo.ra.it/cultura-e-storia/edifici-religiosi/basilica-san-vitale )

Considered by many to be one of the city's most precious treasures, the MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA is one of the oldest buildings in Ravenna, a Unesco heritage site since 1996.

Simple and modest in its forms, the view is immediately striking due to its particular brick structure placed in the shade of the branches of a large centuries-old plane tree immediately behind the Basilica of San Vitale.

Commissioned in the first half of the 5th century AD. (after 426 AD) by the empress Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius and sister of the emperor Honorius, as well as empress regent on behalf of her son Valentinian III, this small mausoleum was to serve as her "last home" in which to be buried together with her brother and to her husband, Constantius III, married in second marriage.

However, it was never used in this sense: in 450 AD. the woman died in fact in Rome and was buried here.

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(Source: turismo.ra.it/cultura-e-storia/monumenti-unesco/mausoleo-galla-placidia )

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Location: Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Basilica of San Vitale and Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

1. Insieme a Te Beach – Marina di Ravenna loop from Borgo San Rocco

2. Ortazzo Wetland – On forest trails loop from Cervia-Milano Marittima

3. Pine Forest Trail – Marina di Ravenna Pine Forest loop from Porto Corsini

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