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Ravenna mosaics

The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna is the city's most famous UNESCO monument, renowned for its impressive architecture and the dazzling mosaics that adorn the presbytery.
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The Church of St. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna

La basilica di S. Vitale è senz'altro il monumento più noto di Ravenna. Entrando, stupisce il ritmo preciso dei vuoti e dei pieni delle sue architetture, l'elaborato cesello di alcuni elementi e, ovviamente, i suoi mosaici.
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The Church of St. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna

The basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe was consecrated in 549, nine years after the army of the Eastern emperor, Justinian, had conquered Ravenna
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Travelling around the corner: zero-kilometer beauty

Not far from Ravenna, in the near inland, there are uncommonly evocative places such as the parish churches  of S. Cassiano in Decimo, in Campiano, and of S. Peter in Sylvis, in Bagnacavallo.
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The Palace of Theodoric

Among the mosaics that still adorn the Basilica of San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna today, there is a depiction of the palace of Theodoric, the Gothic king who ruled in Italy for about three decades.
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