Gravina in Puglia - Concattedrale di Santa Maria A…
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Gravina in Puglia - Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Gravina was populated already in Stone Age times, it was colonized by the Greeks during the colonization of Greater Greece. The Romans took over around 300 BC and the Via Appia, which linked Rome to Brindisi, passed through Gravina. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire it was ruled by Goths, Byzantines, Lombards and Saracens. The Normans arrived around 1000. The town was the site of a Norman countship in the Hauteville Kingdom of Sicily and in 1091 the construction of the Norman cathedral started.
Emperor Frederick II had a castle built nearby, that is meanwhile in ruins. From 1386 to 1816 (!) it was a fief of the Orsini family.Feudal oppression led to numerous riots, in particular from 1789 until the unification of Italy in 1861.
A cathedral was built here at the end of the 11th century by Umfrido d'Altavilla (aka Humphrey of Hauteville), Count of Apulia and Calabria.
This "Norman" church was destroyed in 1447-1456 by a fire followed by an earthquake. The present cathedral was rebuilt in the following thirty years following, in a Renaissance-Romanesque style. In the 17th and 18th century the church underwent some Baroque alterations inside. Today the church is presented as a synthesis of different architectural styles: the late Romanesque, the Renaissance and the Baroque.
Obviously at some time after the earthquake the structure suffered from static stress, so that a buttress was added. This destroyed the rose window.
Emperor Frederick II had a castle built nearby, that is meanwhile in ruins. From 1386 to 1816 (!) it was a fief of the Orsini family.Feudal oppression led to numerous riots, in particular from 1789 until the unification of Italy in 1861.
A cathedral was built here at the end of the 11th century by Umfrido d'Altavilla (aka Humphrey of Hauteville), Count of Apulia and Calabria.
This "Norman" church was destroyed in 1447-1456 by a fire followed by an earthquake. The present cathedral was rebuilt in the following thirty years following, in a Renaissance-Romanesque style. In the 17th and 18th century the church underwent some Baroque alterations inside. Today the church is presented as a synthesis of different architectural styles: the late Romanesque, the Renaissance and the Baroque.
Obviously at some time after the earthquake the structure suffered from static stress, so that a buttress was added. This destroyed the rose window.
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