SAN PETRONIO

In 1390, under the guide of Antonio di Vincenzo, architect planner, they had beginning for order of the Comune one, that it wanted to make of the basilica of the city, the jobs for the construction of the Church of S. Petronio .
The church, defined the latest monument of the Gotico in Italy and Europe, was built up in the side south of Piazza Maggiore square, on an obtained area buying and demolishing eight buildings between churches, houses and towers.
The jobs went rather to rilento and the inside was finished alone in 1515.
Forty years after the marmored covering of the facade was begun, on design of Domenico da Varignana, and in 1659, after the construction of the times of the navatacentrale, the jobs were interrupted and they have not been more resumed until the days ours; the facade is remained not ended
Although incompiuta, the basilica is fifth of the world for dimensions: long 132 meters, wide 58 meters, high 45 meters in the inside and 51 meters in the facade, can contain 28,000 persons.
The main portale of the church (in the photo under) is a capolavoro of Jacopo of the Oak, than it worked to you for dodoci years (from 1426), decorating with 15 history of the Old one and the New Testament and with the magnificent scultoreo group of the Vergine with the Child, S. Petronio and S. Ambrogio (this last one, executed from Varignana).