Maria Santissima Annunziata, Comiso
Chiesa di Maria Santissima Annuziata (Church of the Holiest Mary of the Annunciation) is a Roman Catholic parish and minor basilica church located in the city of Comiso, in the province of Ragusa, Italy. The church is dedicated to the Marian devotion of the Virgin of the Annunciation. History A church at this site, dedicated to San Nicola of Bari, was the original mother church of the town, and dated to prior than the mid-15th century, when the title was switched in 1480 to Santa Maria delle Stelle, because this parish, serving the local Greek population, persisted in using eastern Greek orthodox liturgy. This original church was razed by the 1693 Sicily earthquake. It was rebuilt by 1772 in the same site, but re-dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The design is attributed to Giovanni Battista Cascione Vaccarini, grandson of Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. The elegant Baroque white stone facade has a two-story central nave linked with volutes to the aisles, each with doors decorated wit ...
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Basilica Maria SS
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's Forum (Roman), forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name to the architectural form of the basilica. Originally, a basilica was an ancient Roman architecture, ancient Roman public building, where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. Basilicas are typically rectangular buildings with a central nave flanked by two or more longitudinal aisles, with the roof at two levels, being higher in the centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained the raised Tribune (architecture), tribunal occupied by the Roman magistrates. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the forum and often opposite a temple in imperia ...
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