Basilica di San Lorenzo outdoor lighting - Florence Italy
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The outdoor lighting of the Basilica di San Lorenzo was a gift of the Lions Club of Florence.
Waymark Code: WMK89N
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 02/27/2014
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The plaque placed in the left side of the front facade of the Basilica reads:
quote:
L'illuminazione esterna della Basilica e una donazione del
Lions Club Firenze Bargello
Alla Citta
Vertice Europeo del giugno 1996
The external lighting of the Basilica was a donation of
Lions Club Florence Bargello
to the Town
European Summit Meeting in June 1996
"The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the 15th century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti."
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