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Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo a Metelliano
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The Church of San Michele Arcangelo is located five kilometers from the center of
Cortona, on the road running from Borgo San Domenico leads to the Countess and then Sant'Angelo a Metelliano.
Declared a national monument since 1907, is located at the mouth of the valley dell'Esse, five kilometers from the center of Cortona in a place called Metelliano this area inhabited since Etruscan and Roman times as evidenced by numerous artefacts found here.
The church was built on a Roman temple dedicated to Bacchus, the temple was
maintain at the MAEC Cortona a plaque commemorating the burial of a
Roman child. Sources certainly Lombard (VII century) remain the apses built using local materials and pre-existing Roman temple consecration to Michael, the Archangel who holds the sword, of which the Lombards, warrior people,
were devotees.
Shortly after 1000, the architect of Arezzo Maginardo, who had been for a period well in Ravenna and then learned the Byzantine style of some monuments of
that city, designed the current structure; her great insight was to leave
unchanged the three apses decorated the outside of blind arches with pilasters.
The façade reveals an austere and simple beauty, in Byzantine style, is double
salient, the portal is surmounted by a headband with a single lancet window to the side. The two
inputs on the side of the church, now closed, retain lunettes with beautiful medieval bas-relief. The interior has three naves separated by large pillars
Roman alternating with slender Byzantine columns to indicate clearly a
continuity of style and thus creating a very special effect of spaciousness and rhythmic movement anticipating in a certain way, the Gothic.
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