The audioguide tells the storyplot, describes the architecture and reports interesting factual statements about the oratory.

Rossano is among the most important cities of Calabria, under Byzantine guideline, and here one of many monuments of that period has been preserved: the Oratorio di San Marco, founded roughly in the X-XI century.

During the recovery, fragments of admirable sculptures and frescoes from the Byzantine period surfaced: a Madonna with Child, which was to participate a very much wider about Oratory of San Marco. Rossano. Italy representation, maybe throughout the chapel, as is usually within the iconographic programs of the post iconoclastic Byzantine churches of age. The peculiar element of the architecture of San Marco’s may be the barrel vault, similar to those found on the isle of Crete. Inside, you will find more of the church’s eastern area with slightly projecting and specially organized apses, and cylindrical lateral drums. The wall space of the apses are bare, animated only by the opening from the dual windows, while the mullioned windows open up onto the drums.

A point of interest may be the altar desk, which you will find in front of you, once you have crossed the space underneath the central dome. It really is a burial element: a plate found alongside additional sculptural fragments, during the repair and, within the border, you will find various other geometric ornaments.

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