Basilica San Petronio at Bologna
We live in a time of instant gratification and rapid building. It is rather refreshing to find that the church San Petronio that was started in 1390 remains unfinished. The church would have been larger than St Peters in Rome had not Pope Pious IV put a stop to construction. The façade of pink Verona marble was begun in March 1425 but never completed. My understanding is that the locals quite like the look of their incomplete church and are not minded to finish it. As it is, it dominates one side of the huge Piazza Maggiore in the heart of the city.
One thing to say about the image I had to crop part of the left hand side so as not to include a large cinema screen. I also had to avoid the fixed seating that fills the Piazza Maggiore. In July and August is the site of a major film festival every evening after dark the square would be packed with people watching Black and White Italian neo realist films.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTRESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE
Basilica San Petronio at Bologna
We live in a time of instant gratification and rapid building. It is rather refreshing to find that the church San Petronio that was started in 1390 remains unfinished. The church would have been larger than St Peters in Rome had not Pope Pious IV put a stop to construction. The façade of pink Verona marble was begun in March 1425 but never completed. My understanding is that the locals quite like the look of their incomplete church and are not minded to finish it. As it is, it dominates one side of the huge Piazza Maggiore in the heart of the city.
One thing to say about the image I had to crop part of the left hand side so as not to include a large cinema screen. I also had to avoid the fixed seating that fills the Piazza Maggiore. In July and August is the site of a major film festival every evening after dark the square would be packed with people watching Black and White Italian neo realist films.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTRESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE