The Ducal Palace in Massa (Palazzo Ducale di Massa in Italian) is located in Piazza of Aranci. It is also called the Red Palace (Palazzo Rosso in Italian), and today is also the Prefecture (Prefettura in Italian). The building was started in 1563 by Alberico Cybo – Malaspina, who transformed an existing family villa. The […]
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The Orange Tree Square (Piazza degli Aranci in Italian) in the town of Massa in Italy, built after the controversial destruction of the church of San Pietro in 1807 and later embellished by a double row of orange trees that still surrounds the place on three sides, has helped to highlight the huge ducal palace.
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The Carrara dome (Insigne Collegiata mitrata Abbazia di Sant’Andrea Apostolo in Italian) is almost entirely covered with dazzling white marble of great value, extracted from nearby quarries of Carrara. An older church, Ecclesia Sancti Andree Carraria , is mentioned as existing on this site as 1035, but it remains only a relief. The church was […]
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The first cathedral of San Donato was built on proximity of Arezzo, Colle del Pionta, where San Donato martyr was buried and revered, beheaded in 363. In 1203, Pope Innocent III ordered to transfer the Cathedral within the walls of the city on the site where it is today. The construction of the Cathedral of […]
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The Basilica of St. Francis (Basilica di San Francesco in Italian) is an important Catholic Shrine of Arezzo, famous for the stories of the True Cross : Piero della Francesca’s fresco cycle in the chapel. The basilica dates from the late thirteenth century. However, it is rebuilt between 1318 and 1377 on a plan of […]
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