When the gods are involved, there is little to joke about. Faced with the prospect of the eternal sublimation of the flesh in spirit or who knows what else, there is no civilization that has spared the energy to be allocated to this specific goal.
Imposing, magnificent, monumental. This is how the current St. Isaac Church, the fourth, built by the French architect Montferrand at the behest of Tsar Alexander and, further magnified under Tsar Nicholas I, I between 1818 and 1858.
Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is known to Petersburgers as the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood – or even just the Church on the Blood – as it marks the spot where Alexander II was fatally wounded in an assassination attempt on March 1, 1881.
Milan is rich in places hidden and unknown to its own inhabitants.
Built around the 8th century to accommodate the bodies of S. Vittore and S. Satiro, in the area where were some small Christian parish churches and the imperial mausoleum.
Built at the beginning of the 15th century on the remains of an ancient place of worship, the church was annexed to Monastero Maggiore, the monastery of the Benedictine Order demolished in 1799, of which today remains the entrance cloister, an integral part of the Archaeological Museum.
Stands in Piazza Castello, just before the Piazzetta Reale, and has a simple façade uniformed to nearby buildings.
With its dome by Michelangelo and the monumental façade, the Basilica of St. Peter dominates the spectacular colonnaded portico of St. Peter’s Square colonnade, Bernini’s masterpiece.
The Church of Our Saviour is in the district of Christianshavn and his extravagant spiral tower can be seen from the distance, along the Inderhavn.