BASILICA DELLA MADONNA DI SAN LUCA

All the important monuments of Bologna are not situate to you in the historical center.

The Sanctuary of the Madonna di S.Luca is the case, than city is found outside, on the Hill of the Guard

The sanctuary guards, to the altar greater, the famous picture of the Vergine with the Child, called the Madonna di S. Luca, in how much traditionally attributed to the apostle Luca, transported to Bisanzio from some Asian locality to the times of the Arabic invasions and ended to Bologna for channels not known



In effects draft of a painting probably not front bizantina to XII the century, already in possession of two children, Azolina and Bice, daughters of Rambertino, than in the 1160 made to raise on the Hill of the Guard a small eremo, in order to guard the image