Monument to Canova in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, designed by Canova as a mausoleum for the painter Titian

In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinando de ' Medici, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703.

In 1013, construction began on the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte.

In 1887, his remains were moved to the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, in Florence, at the request of the Italian government.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel ( Capella Sforza ) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Machiavelli's cenotaph in the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze | Santa Croce Church in Florence

** Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope ( memorial feast day )

He held a series of positions as organist and maestro di cappella ( choirmaster ) between 1607 and 1626, when he succeeded Vincenzo Ugolini as maestro of the Cappella Giulia's choir in St. Peter's Basilica.

He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill.

Such was the violence and bloodshed that the two prefects of the city were called in to restore order, and after a first setback, when they were driven to the suburbs and a massacre of 137 was perpetrated in the basilica of Sicininus ( the modern Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ), the prefects banished Ursinus to Gaul.

He also prescribed that acolytes should not presume to translate the relics of martyrs and that, in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, they should not take the place of deacons in administering baptism.

Pope Boniface VIII, fresco by Giotto di Bondone in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome

He also immediately commissioned a representative tomb from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

This move, actually to Carpentras, the capital of the territory, was justified at the time by French apologists on grounds of security, since Rome, where the dissensions of the Roman aristocrats and their armed militia had reached a nadir and the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano had been destroyed in a fire, was unstable and dangerous.

Statue of Pope Clement VIII in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

He is known for building the new façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, beginning construction of the Trevi Fountain, and the purchase of Cardinal Alessandro Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery.

He was buried in the cemetery of St. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, but his body, subsequently moved, now lies in the Basilica di Santa Prassede.

He was buried at Ferentino, but his body was subsequently removed to the Basilica Santa Maria di Collemaggio in Aquila.

The Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere was a titulus of which Callixtus was the patron.

They took him from the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and installed him in the Lateran Palace, ignoring his protests.

In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

The ceremony began with the Pope and the cardinals kneeling at the Tomb of Saint Peter beneath the high altar of Saint Peter's Basilica — the popes are, according to Catholic dogma, the successors of Saint Peter, the first head of the Church in Rome — to give him homage, and ask his prayers.

Father Boyle was buried in his beloved Basilica di San Clemente, in 2000 a year after his death, following official desire to give him the honour of interment in the vaults of San Clemente-one of Rome's holiest and most historical shrines.

Sergius protested, saying he had made no such agreement ; when John did not give up his demands, he took the holy vessels of St. Peter's Basilica, claiming they were all he possessed.

In the first century AD, the Christian Church at Pergamon inside the main building of the Red Basilica was one of the Seven Churches to which the Book of Revelation was addressed.

The tallest building is St. Peter's Basilica, at 452 feet ( 138 m ).

* The building of the St. Sophia Basilica ( Constantinople ) is begun, and is completed in 537.

* The construction of present building of St Mark's Basilica is begun.

* The Basilica of Maxentius is constructed, the largest building in the Roman Forum.

In 1546, after the death of Sangallo, he appointed the elderly Michelangelo to take over the supervision of the building of St. Peter's Basilica.

Maxentius was condemned to damnatio memoriae, all his legislation was invalidated and Constantine usurped all of Maxentius ' considerable building projects within Rome, including the Temple of Romulus and the Basilica of Maxentius.

Local newspapers made a fuss when Gilbert sent to Georgia for marble, but the result, in which a hemispherical dome caps a high drum not unlike that of St. Peter's Basilica, crowning a building housing the bicameral legislature and the state supreme court, was so nobly handsome that West Virginia and Arkansas contracted for Gilbert capitols as well.

* Basilica Porcia: first basilica built in Rome ( 184 BC ), erected on the personal initiative and financing of the censor Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) as an official building for the tribunes of the plebs

* St Mary Major, also called the Liberian Basilica because the original building ( not the present one ) was attributed to Pope Liberius, is the largest church in Rome dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The largest building for a Marian shrine in the world, as well as the second most popular pilgrimage site in Latin America, after Basilica de Guadalupe.

Victor Amadeus left a considerable cultural influence in Turin remodeling the Royal Palace of Turin, Palace of Venaria, Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi as well as building the Basilica of Superga where he rests.

Juvarra was patronised by Victor Amadeus and was the mind behind the remodelling of the Royal Palace of Turin, Palace of Venaria, Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi as well as building the Basilica of Superga.

Mexico City's 17th-century Basilica of Guadalupe -- built in honor of the Virgin and perhaps Mexico's most important religious building — was constructed at the base of the hill of Tepeyac, believed to be a site used for pre-Columbian worship of Tonantzin.

After the building of Trajan's Forum ( 110 AD ), these activities transferred to the Basilica Ulpia.

The rooms in which the Doge lived were always located in this area of the palace, between the Rio della Canonica – the water entrance to the building – the present-day Golden Staircase and the apse of St. Mark ’ s Basilica.

The college was originally located in Lower Town, housed in a wooden building next to the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica.

Hanno was said to be white in colour, and arrived by ship from Lisbon to Rome in 1514, aged about four years, and was kept initially in an enclosure in the Belvedere courtyard, then moved to a specially constructed building between St. Peter's Basilica and the Apostolic Palace, near the Borgo Sant ' Angelo ( a road in the rione of Borgo ).

Places worth seeing in the city include the Basilica of Los Angeles, the " Ruins of Santiago Apostle Church ", The City Museum, Maria Auxiliadora church, the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, The Central Market ( especially on Thursdays and Saturdays ), and the main building of San Luis Gonzaga High School, site of the first Central American Supreme Court.

* Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of León, typical colonial baroque building was built between 1747 and 1814.

" The building of the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur ", coda to Paris, Capital of Modernity ( 2003: 311ff ) Harvey made use of Hubert Rohault de Fleury.

Historique de la Basilique du Sacré Coeur ( 1903 – 09 ), the official history of the building of the Basilica, in four volumes, printed, but not published.

St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City | Vatican in Rome, the largest church building in the world today.