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San Cristoforo (other)
San Cristoforo is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. San Cristoforo may also refer to: * Monte San Cristoforo, a mountain of southern San Marino * San Cristoforo, Cortona, a Roman Catholic church in Cortona, Province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy * San Cristoforo, Montesperello, a Catholic church in Montesperello, village of Magione, province of Perugia, region of Umbria, Italy * San Cristoforo, Capannori, a 12th-century, Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic parish church in Capannori, province of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy * San Cristoforo Minore, Catania, a Roman Catholic church in Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy * San Cristoforo, Ascoli Piceno, a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church in Ascoli Piceno, region of Marche, Italy * San Cristoforo, Siena, a Roman Catholic church in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy * San Cristoforo sul Naviglio San Cristoforo sul Naviglio is a church in Milan, northern Italy. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo
San Cristoforo (in local dialect San Cristòfi) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 595 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. San Cristoforo borders the following municipalities: Capriata d'Orba, Castelletto d'Orba, Francavilla Bisio, Gavi, Montaldeo, and Parodi Ligure. History Situated on an important via of communication that it carried to the ancient city of Libarna Libarna was a Roman city located on the left bank of the Scrivia, on the stretch of the via Postumia between Genua and Dertona. Today Libarna's hamlet is part of the municipality of Serravalle Scrivia, in Alessandria province. Libarna's excava ..., it rose around to a sight tower: the so-called Tower of the Gazzolo, today encompassed in the castle. Preemption of the Obertenghi, pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte San Cristoforo
Monte San Cristoforo is a mountain of southern San Marino. It is located between the towns of Fiorentino and Montegiardino Montegiardino is one of the 9 communes or ''castelli'' of San Marino. It has 967 inhabitants (May 2018) in an area of 3.31 km2. The residences of the University of the Republic of San Marino, the country's only university, are located in Mon ..., and rises to a height of 534 metres. References Mountains of San Marino {{SanMarino-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Cortona
San Cristoforo is a small, Roman Catholic church located at the intersection of Via San Niccolò and Via dell’Orto della Cera, in central Cortona, Province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze''). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, art ... in Italy. History Documents date a church at the site from 1192, but much of the church was rebuilt in 1575 after a fire, and modified over the centuries. The rustic facade is awkwardly place relative to the nave. In the apse, some 14th-century frescoes still survive, depicting the ''Crucifixion'', the ''Annunciation'', the ''Ascension'', and ''Christ blessing with Angels''. The brick roof structure that holds the bells was built in the 15th century. The interior contains a restored 19th-century organ by Giovanni Banci. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Montesperello
San Cristoforo ("St. Christopher", it, Chiesa di San Cristoforo), is a Catholic church located in Montesperello, in the municipality of Magione, which is part of the province of Perugia, in Umbria, Italy. The parish church adjoins Castle of Montesperello, outside the castle walls and having an external bell tower. History It was registered in Liber beneficiorum in 1350, rebuilt in 1400 to 1450. The belfry in its present form refers to 1797. At the beginning of the 1930s, in place of the sacristy a chapel was built, dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. There are three paintings by artist Tedeschi Tito, which depict St. Francis, and buildings located in Assisi and Montesperello.{{Cite web , url=http://diocesi.perugia.it/vtours/sancristoforo/index.html , title=Virtual tour , website=diocesi.perugia.it July 3, 1949, the painter Gerardo Dottori completed the decoration of the church's apse with 3 frescoes. It is a triptych dedicated to St. Christopher Saint Christopher ( el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Capannori
San Cristoforo di Lammari is 12th-century, Romanesque architecture, Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic parish church in Capannori, province of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The present church at the site was built between the 11th and 12th centuries at the site of an earlier 9th century church,. The ceramic decoration in the apse dates from this latter construction. The layout is that of a Latin cross with three naves, each with a semicircular apse. A bell-tower rises alongsides. A refurbishment occurred in the 16th century, with the insertion of side altars. tourism website by the Province of Lucca, with their text derived from Sacrum Luce website. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cristoforo Capannori 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catho ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo Minore, Catania
San Cristoforo Minore is a small former-Roman Catholic church or oratory located on the piazza Turi Ferro, formerly of Santo Spirito, near the center of the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It is putatively now the church of ''San Leone'' and owned by the Greek Orthodox parish of Catania, but is mostly closed. The church has a slender Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ... facade and sits on a forgotten, somewhat decrepit, urban island between streets. In the 18th century, the church as associated with a Catholic confraternity: the ''Congregazione Santissima Maria Addolorata''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Ascoli Piceno
San Cristoforo is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located on Rua d'Argillano in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the ..., Italy. History The church was begun as the oratory for the Confraternita della Buona Morte (Confraternity of the Good Death). A group often tending to those condemned to execution. It was reconstructed in 1593–98, at the site of a 14th-century church. The façade dates to 1603, but the church was not completed until 1790. The interior has three stucco altars by local architect Giuseppe Giosafatti. The church houses altarpieces by Ludovico Trasi, depicting the ''Miracle of San Nicola di Bari'', and by Nicola Antonio Monti, depicting the ''Souls in Purgatory''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Siena
San Cristoforo is a Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Tolomei in the Northern Terzo di Camollia and contrada of Civetta in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. Across the piazza from the church is the Palazzo Tolomei, one of the oldest buildings in the city. The Tolomei for many years were associated with the church. History The original Romanesque style church with a Latin Cross layout was initially constructed in the 11th to 12th-century. Traces of Romanesque columns remain in the adjacent small cloister. During the 13th century, the cloister would host the council of the nascent Republic of Siena. It is claimed that at this site in 1260, a meeting took place between the Council of 24 and Florentine ambassadors. The latters demanded that Siena breach its walls, and allow Florentine fortresses in each Terzo. These heavy demands forced the former to decide that war with Florence was inevitable, and they dismissed the ambassadors, and prepared for war. They acknowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo Sul Naviglio
San Cristoforo sul Naviglio is a church in Milan, northern Italy. History The complex is composed of two churches. The left one is the most ancient, which is known to be a Romanesque reconstruction of a far more ancient edifice (probably in turn located on the site of a Roman templeThis hypothesis is supported by the fact that the edifices entitled to St. Cristopher, patron of the pilgrims, often replaced those of Hercules, who was also a giant.). The Romanesque edifice was again rebuilt in the 13th century, when the Naviglio Grande was excavated. In the mid-14th century it received the Gothic portal and rose window. The Gothic church was flanked by a hospital, built around 1364. The more recent church, which currently is united to the other and gives the appearance of a single edifice, was constructed along the naviglio (navigational canal) bank in the 15th century, and then called Ducal Chapel. It was commissioned by Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti in order to provide a holy e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristoforo, Lucca
San Cristoforo is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, former Roman Catholic church located on the narrow Via Fillungo in the center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. Now deconsecrated and stripped of its former interior altars and decoration, the chapel served as a memorial for those fallen in the wars.. History A church at the site is documented since 1053. The architect of much of the structure is attributed to Diotisalvi. The façade has a pattern of alternating white and dark stone, influenced by the style of churches in Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit .... The lower part of the façade dates to 12th-century while the superior façade with a rose window to the 14th-century. In 1939 to 1940, much of the interior decoration was stripped, the church deconsecrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
