San Gervasio dei Bulgari is a Romanesque-style,

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church located in

Mondolfo Mondolfo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche, located about northwest of Ancona and about southeast of Pesaro, on the Adriatic Sea. Mondolfo borders the following municipalities: ...

, province of Pesaro and Urbino, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church is ancient, founded perhaps in the 5th or 6th century, in a territory inhabited in those times by

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immigrants. The church has a basilica layout with three naves. It may have formerly been a barracks in Ancient Roman times for the Ad Pirum Filumeni. The crypt has a 6th-century sarcophagus that supposedly held the body of St Gervasius, patron of the town.Tourism office of province of Pesaro and Urbino

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