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Santo Stefano Rotondo in a late 19th-century print. Although the inside is circular, the exterior is on a cruciform plan. The entrance has a portico with five arches on tall ancient granite columns with Corinthian capitals, added in the 12th century, by Pope Innocent II. [2]
Santo Stefano al Ponte is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church, located in the Piazza of the same name, just off the Via Por Santa Maria, near the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is presently used as a concert hall.
A centralized-plan has a 360-degree extremely symmetrical architectural plan. This category also includes shapes such as octagons, squares, or circles. Most Italian churches were built according to a cruciform or basilica shape. This layout was preferred after the Council of Trent.
The central-plan martyrium church became a model for important churches not containing important relics, such as the Constantinian "Golden Octagon" at Antioch, and perhaps also the octagonal church of Caesarea Maritima (built c. 480–500), the San Vitale in Ravenna (526–547), and the Palatine Chapel in Aachen (c. 792–805).
Santo Stefano, Bologna Layout of the Basilica 1-3. Church of the Crucifix 2. Crypt 4. Church of the Holy Sepulchre 5. Church of Saints Vitale and Agricola 6. Pilate's courtyard 7. Church of the Trinity or the Martyrium, also called "Santa Croce", containing the ancient Nativity 8. Cloister 9-10-11-12. Chapel of the Bandage ("Cappella della ...
Santo Stefano (Italian: Isola di Santo Stefano) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, and part of the Pontine Islands. It is roughly circular, with a diameter of less than 400 metres (1,300 feet), and it is located 2 kilometres ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles) east of the nearby island of Ventotene .
Rome – Santo Stefano Rotondo, a church built under the commission of Constantine I on the ruins of the Caelian Hill of Rome. Built in the 5th century, it is the first church in Rome to have a circular floor plan, instead of the traditional Greek or Latin cross designs [51]
Santo Stefano is the Italian name of Saint Stephen. Santo Stefano may also refer to: Places. Islands. Santo Stefano (island), an island in Sardinia, Italy;