Sentence examples for basilica built from inspiring English sources

The basilica, built from 1806 to 1821, is the site of the country's first Catholic archdiocese.

The nave is a 13th-century basilica built by Pope Honorius III, and the chancel is another basilica built by Pope Pelagius II in the late 6th century as a replacement for the 4th-century original.

The most imposing building is St. Peter's Basilica, built during the 4th century and rebuilt during the 16th century.

Trajan's Baths served as models for the Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian, which in turn served as a pattern for the basilica built by Maxentius.

In Catalonia's largest city, Barcelona, there were two separate human chains, one circling the Sagrada Familia, the unfinished basilica built by Antoni Gaudí.

One level beneath the present-day basilica you can visit a 16th-century crypt atop the fourth-century basilica built by the Emperor Constantine.

The Basilica Porcia (built during Marcus Porcius Cato's censorship of 184), the Basilica Aemilia et Fulvia (179), and the Basilica Sempronia (170 169) were constructed out of the traditional tufa blocks but in a Hellenized style.

When this basilica became dangerous owing to the sinking of its foundations, a modern structure called the New Basilica was built nearby; the original image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is now housed in the New Basilica.

Originally the Basilica Eudoxiana, San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) minor basilica was built in 432 440 with money from the empress Eudoxia for the veneration of the chains of the apostle Peter's Jerusalem imprisonment.

By the third century A.D., Christians were martyred there and a commemorative basilica was built.

Vitruvius himself tells of a basilica he built at Fanum (now Fano).