Tempietto Di Santa Croce (Bergamo)
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The Tempietto di Santa Croce is a small octagonal Romanesque chapel found in the upper city of
Bergamo Bergamo ( , ; ) is a city in the Alps, alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the alpine lakes Lake Como, Como and Lake Iseo, Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Lake Garda, Garda and Lake ...
, near the
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. The original building was constructed in the first half of the 11th century,L. Moris, A. Pellegrini, p. 118 op. cit. in bibliography. though first documentation of the structure dates to 1133. Other Romanesque structures in the province include the
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, the
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, and the Priorato di Sant'Egidio.


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*Hans Erich Kubach. '' Architettura romanica''. Milano, Electa, 1978. . *
Jacques Le Goff Jacques Le Goff (; 1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...
. ''L'uomo medievale''. Bari, Laterza, 1999. . *Gian Maria Labaa. ''San Tomè in Almenno. Studi, ricerche, interventi per il restauro di una chiesa romanica''. Bergamo, Lubrina, 2005. . *Lorenzo Moris, Alessandro Pellegrini. ''Sulle tracce del romanico in provincia di Bergamo''. Bergamo, Prov. Bergamo, 2003. *Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Filli Rossi, Jim Bishop. ''Carta archeologica della Lombardia: carta archeologica del territorio di Bergamo''. Modena, Panini, 1992. . *Carlo Tosco. '' Architetti e committenti nel romanico lombardo''. Roma, Viella, 1997. .
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