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BOLOGNA – Abbazia di Santo Stefano
The Basilica di Santo Stefano, also known as Sette Chiese (Seven Churches), is the most peculiar in Bologna. Its origins are still debated: according to some, it was built in 430 when the Bishop (who later became the Patron Saint of Bologna) d [...]

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BOLOGNA – Crypt of the Abbot Martin – Abbazia di Santo Stefano
The Crypt of Abbot Martin is located in Church of the Saints Vitale and Agricola. It is the oldest church of the Abbazia Di Santo Stefano. This basilica-shaped church, without a transept, with a salient façade and triconca apse, is dedicated t [...]

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BOLOGNA – Sancta Jerusalem Bononiensis – Abbazia di Santo Stefano
There is a little Zion in the heart of Bologna. It is the basilica of Santo Stefano, which for more than a thousand years has been known as the ‘Sancta Jerusalem Bononiensis’ – Bologna’s holy Jerusalem. You approach along a portico that is top [...]

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BOLOGNA – The Fontana di Pilato – Abbazia di Santo Stefano
Church of the Holy Sepulchre dates back to the fifth century, built by the bishop Petronius as a simulacrum of the Constantinian Sepulcher of Jerusalem and rebuilt at the beginning of the eleventh century by Benedictine monks after it was heav [...]