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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Retimo Latin: Dioecesis Rhithymnensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Rethymo (modern day Rethymno) on the north coast of the island of Crete. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established around 1250 AD.
[1] [3] Another date of erection suggested is 1683. [3] Today it is preserved in its entirety in good condition, save for its minaret, of which only the base survives. [ 2 ] It has been restored by the Greek Archaeological Service , and is being considered to be made into a museum about the Ottoman architecture of Crete.
Very shortly after the town of Rethymno was conquered by the Ottomans, they demolished the church and built the mosque, dedicated to Sultan Ibrahim I in 1648, with a large, imposing dome. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The complaed became property of the city of Rethymno in 1971; it was restored between 2002 and 2004 by the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, and ...
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence The Penitent Magdalene is a wooden sculpture of Mary Magdalene by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello , now usually dated to around 1440. The sculpture was probably commissioned for the Baptistery of Florence .
It consists of the unification of the pre-existing municipalities Arkadi, Lappa, Rethymno and Nikiforos Fokas of Rethymno Prefecture. The extent of the new municipality is 396.256 km 2 (152.995 sq mi), [3] and it had a population of 57,216 inhabitants at the 2021 census. [2] The seat of the new municipality is the town Rethymno. [4]
Padua Cathedral with the baptistery on the right Frescoes in the baptistery by Giusto de' Menabuoi. Padua Cathedral, or Basilica Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (Italian: Duomo di Padova; Basilica Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta), is a Catholic church and minor basilica located on the east end of Piazza Duomo, adjacent to the bishop's palace in Padua, Veneto, Italy.
The statue (1975) is a work by Raffaele Scorzelli. [6] The Baroque church towers over the small round and rustic Romanesque church of the Old Cathedral of Brescia (Duomo Vecchio). References
The Fortezza of Rethymno has an irregular plan, and its walls have a total length of 1,307 m (4,288 ft). The walls contain the following demi-bastions: [1] St Nicolas Bastion – the demi-bastion at the east end of the fortress. It contains a Venetian-era building which was possibly originally a storehouse or laboratory. [7]