A building that never stopped being rebuilt
One church. Five campaigns. Nothing demolished.
Where a Romanesque wall stops against a Gothic arcade, the whole history of the building is on the surface. This site reads the seams.
A building that never stopped being rebuilt
Where a Romanesque wall stops against a Gothic arcade, the whole history of the building is on the surface. This site reads the seams.
The flagship reading
Most great churches replaced what stood before. This one kept adding alongside — so the site holds a late-antique baptistery, a Romanesque nave and a Gothic nave in parallel, each one legible against the others.
Read the flagship →A building that was never demolishedMost great churches replaced what stood before. This one kept adding alongside, so the site holds a late-antique baptistery, a Romanesque nave and a Gothic nave in parallel — and the plan is the argument.
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The baptisteryAn octagonal chamber with a sunken pool, ringed by columns older than the building.
III
The Romanesque naveThick walls, small openings, a barrel of masonry doing the work.
IV
The Gothic naveBuilt beside its predecessor rather than over it. What that decision preserved.
V
Later additionsChapels and furnishings added into a shell already six centuries old.
Nothing was demolished to make way for what came next.
Each campaign kept the last one standing and built against it — spolia (older stone reused in newer work) all the way down.
Lead reading · 01
Two arcades built under different structural assumptions meet in a single run of masonry. Between them is almost everything the building's sequence has to tell.
Reuse
Antique shafts standing in a medieval building: older stone, re-cut bases, and the height problem nobody quite solved. Read the ring →
