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San Fedele

It was constructed around to 1120 on an unusual trilobata plant, on altomedioevali foundations of plant centers them, from which the longitudinal body was developed. The prospiciente public square has changed in the time forms and dimensions, and the still visible tracings manifest the successive posterior appropriations of the public area to the age of system. For how much latent one, intuisce still the original dialogue spaces them between the basilica and the baptistry of S. Giovanni in Entrance hall of the V-VI century, whose rests are guarded hour in the courtyard of one of the houses that outline the public square, and the church of S. Peter in Entrance hall in the neighbor Via Odescalchi, hour used after espositivo space.
The facade has endured rifacimenti also in our century, and of the 1968 they are the mosaics of Elena Mazzari in the lunette of the two portali that with large rosone and the hanging bows, register the sobria surface in a neoromanico rhythm moved more in here, in the absidale zone, from one loggiato theory of lesene and an elegant one; here the architectonic relationship is articulated in the encounter with the esedra lateral. The bell tower of the sec. XI it collapsed partially in the earthquake of 1117. Dangerously tilted, under the supervision of Giussani engineer were demolished and reconstructed between 1903 and 1907.
Of Romanesque print, of quadrangular section, it is elevated today like a body isolated from the basilica, ritmato in four orders of bows with openings to trifore, double lancet windows and monofore. Two of the three bells came fused in 1842 third in 1962. Celebre is the istoriata door of the door of S. Fedele To the inside, in the absidale area, the Romanesque climate stempera in the light that they give the logge is spread between the six baroque candlesticks lignei, on the four settecenteschi mosaics and of veneziana school on the presbiteriale pavement, and the altar composed from original parts of several ages. In truth the body that is developed from this zone beyond the cruciform pillars, smaller extension skill in the constructive criteria. In the absidale field that is opened on Via Vittorio Emanuele, observing the commessure, tan, single the course and the various order of the system to joint, has been possible with one sure emergency, to place in makes constructive the masonry of the northern apse, that one of connection with the jamb of the istoriata door, and the so-called "wall of sbieco various".
The history of the door are affected various slabs and the jamb of left renders the structure asymmetric since placed side by side from I tan in which the scene of Daniel in the fossa is represented of the lions. The house that Fedele creates on left a jutting out part of the complex of S., has with the sacred building a relationship knit along the centuries from the sec. XVI. The fregio, that it carries out in proximity of the roof floreali reasons, 1582 are dated.