Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 21: Roma – Roma, 143 km

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Not to split hairs, but Saint Peter's is built in the renaissance style - but does admittedly have som gothic and baroque influences ;)
A product of the Italian Renaissance obsession for central-plan and domed designs, the project was eventually modified into a traditional Latin-cross shape during the Counter-Reformation. So 0 Gothic influences, but much Baroque ornament inside, largely an effect of Bernini in the seventeeth-century. I was referring to my preference for late antique and Romanesque church architecture over Gothic.😏
 
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Why do you prefer those?

One of my favorite aspects of the gothic is that it was an era when the masons were let off the leash and some of the imagery in stone is fantastic and even bizarre.
Well, since you asked, I love the architecture of the Roman empire in decline and the rise of Byzantium, as far as ecclesastical buildings go: from the Constantinian basilicas, of which sadly almost nothing has survived, to Hagia Sofia (my second favorite building in the world). As for Romanesque, the duomo of Modena gives me goose bumps or the Abbey de Senac amidst the lavender fields in July. Need I say more? However, the duomo of Siena is probably my favorite Gothic structure.
 
Well, since you asked, I love the architecture of the Roman empire in decline and the rise of Byzantium, as far as ecclesastical buildings go: from the Constantinian basilicas, of which sadly almost nothing has survived, to Hagia Sofia (my second favorite building in the world). As for Romanesque, the duomo of Modena gives me goose bumps or the Abbey de Senac amidst the lavender fields in July. Need I say more? However, the duomo of Siena is probably my favorite Gothic structure.
Interesting. I will have to look those up.
 
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