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The Storchi Theatre is situated in a widening called Largo Giuseppe Garibaldi, on the outskirt of the old core of the town. The theatre mainly performing non-opera shows, looks onto widening Garibaldi.
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Modena’s Duomo: A Romanesque Masterpiece, Part IV
Modena’s towering Romanesque duomo rises over the sarcophagus of its patron saint, San Geminiano. The church houses a relic of Our Saint, his arm, which is carried in religious procession on the 31st of January, Our Saint's Feast Day.
Legend tells us that Our Saint prevented Attila the Hun from destroying the city by shrouding it in a mist.
Historically, San Geminiano was the second bishop of Modena. He was born in Cognento, a town southwest of Modena, in AD 313, the same year that Constantine, issuing the Edict of Milan, granted freedom of worship to Christians. Our Saint’s missionary work was carried out in a nearly totally pagan environment. He is the father of the Christian community of Modena, which honors him for his miracles, often depicted in paintings and sculptures. San Geminiano evangelized the pagans and defended the Christian community from heretics. In AD 390 he participated to the Council of Milan, which condemned the monk Gioviniano, who denied the virginity of Mary.
San Geminiano ended forty years of clirical life on January 31, AD 397.
Chiesa di San Pietro
Chiesa di San Pietro (St. Peter's Church) already existed in the 10th century, adjoined to a convent of Black Friars. According to the legend, it was first built on a site of 1st c. Roman Temple of Jupiter.
The present look of the church dates from 1476 and was designed by Pietro Barabani in the Renaissance style.
All eight chapels, in external aisles, are adorned by important works of art accomplished by different authors. Worth of note is organ in the church, dating to 1524, and built by B. Franceschetti.
Piazza Roma
The Piazza Roma isn't quite a draw in and of itself, but you are sure to pass through it if you visit the Palazzo Ducale (and no one should come to Modena without visiting the Palazzo Ducale). In the centre of the Piazza Roma (first Piazza Ducale, the Reale, now Roma) is a Monumento a Ciro Menotti, a former supporter of Duke Francesco IV who then led a liberal revolt in 1831. The statue was sculpted by Carlo Sighinolfi and erected in 1879, perhaps as a sort of reminder that Modena had been annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, thus ending the tyranny of the Dukes.
Palazzo Ducale, Part I
“The course in the military school at Modena is two years. No mathematics is taken by the cadet, except what is included in the subjects of physical and natural sciences.”
— from “A Cyclopedia of Education” 1913 Edited by Paul Monroe
Francesco I, Duke of Modena, invited the Baroque architect Bartolomeo Avanzini from Rome and commissioned a new court palace from him. Building work on the new Palazzo Ducale, which now houses Accademia Militare di Modena, started in 1635. Using Avanzini’s original design, other Baroque architects, such as Francesco Borromini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, contributed to the plan.
The palace, elegant and imposing, is made-up of a long three-storey façade topped by a marble balustrade decorated with sculpture that depict the Virtues, as well as other characters from the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Three imposing towers, two at either corner and the highest and architecturally most complex at the center, divide the building into two sections. The clock (see photo #3), still in use today, was installed in the upper portion of the central tower in 1756.
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