Basilica di San Piero a Grado, Pisa Italy # 4

Originally the facade of the Basilica faced the West (this photo) and the three apses the East (see: www.flickr.com/photos/cienne/470038298/in/set-72157600114... ) It was changed at the end of the XII century, following the collapse of the facade perhaps damaged by floods, to the present building, thus resulting shorter in lengh and with the apses on opposite sides to one another, because of the addition of another apses in place of the facade. In the same century and the same area, the bell tower was raised, a very solid tower 37 meter high, from whose summit could be seen the entire plane between Pisa and Livorno, the Islands of the Tuscan Archipelago right to the boundary with Liguria. This bell tower was mined by the Germans troops in retreat in 1944, and partly rebuilt with the original material in the '50s.
Today the present Basilica appears as an impressive building with three naves, with three apses to the east and one to the west the main entrance being to the north, since it does not have a proper facade.
Further info: www.flickr.com/photos/cienne/sets/72157600114508041/

Taken on: April 23, 2007

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Carlo Natale

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