Malerischer Blick auf die Piazza Santa Croce Platz mit dem Brunnen und der berühmten Basilika Santa Croce (Heiliges Kreuz Basilika), Florenz, Toskana, Italien
5510 x 3673 px | 46,7 x 31,1 cm | 18,4 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
19. Oktober 2019
Ort:
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. A small oratory already built in 1228 provides the earliest evidence of the Franciscans settlement in a marshy area close to the north side of Arno River. The building was enlarged around the half of the century but its dimensions were not sufficient to welcome the many worshippers who used to attend it, so that on the 3rd of May 1294 or 1295 (the year is not certain) the erection of the present church began. The ceremony, accurately recorded by Giovanni Villani, was solemn: the representatives of the religious and political powers as well as noble and wealthy Florentine men and women, took part to the event. At the beginning Santa Croce housed the graves of the families living in the district; then, in the fifteenth century, became the guardian of the memory of illustrious Florentines by hosting the tombs of the Chancellors of the Republic Leonardo Bruni and Carlo Marsuppini. The monument dedicated to Michelangelo built in 1564 and the one made for Galileo later on, inspired Ugo Foscolo who, in the poem entitled I Sepolcri written in 1807, calls Santa Croce "the Temple of the Italian glories", marking its change from Pantheon of the town of Florence to Pantheon of the Italians. It's the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, the poet Foscolo, the philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini.
