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This Room
gathers the remains of the ancient Basilica (Pieve) of San
Marino, demolished in 1825 to build today’s church, larger and
differently oriented, which was consecrated in 1855.
Though unknown,
the original plan is supposed to have been very different from
today’s structure. Some indications suggest that the Basilica
was built in the 6th century.
Over the
centuries, the church was restored and altered several times:
the polyptych by Francesco Menzocchi from Forlì (1502-1574)
and the architectural fragments here on show date probably
back to the works carried out in the 16th century. The frame
of this polyptych, composed of nine paintings, is a work by
Luigi Cocchetti (1866), also responsible for the restoration
of the panel paintings.
Next
to the Basilica, there was a small church dedicated to Saint
Peter (this one also restructured in the 19th century), with a
cruciform ground plan, probably of the same period of the
Basilica, and with a structure similar to that of the
oratories or martyria which in the 5th and 6th
centuries used to be built on the tombs of people who
distinguished themselves because of their saintliness. |
