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Jul 12, 2019 · The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia sits in the courtyard of Ravenna ’s magnificent 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale, but its connection to the basilica is unclear. Its construction dates to ...
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Galla Placidiawas the daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I and a major player in the politics of the Western Roman Empire in the first half of the fifth century AD. She was also one-time regent of the Western Empire. Known for its stunning early-Byzantine style mosaics, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a hidden gem which delights and surpri...
Visitors today can enjoy the mosaics which UNESCO has described as ‘among the best surviving examples of this form of art in Europe.’ It is open every day from 9am to 7pm, and admission is 9.50 euro.
From the centre of Ravenna, the mausoleum is reachable in around 8 minutes by car via Via Rocca Brancaleone. A number of public transport options are also available, with the bus stop at Piazza Baracca being a 2 minute walk from the site. By car, it’s 10 minutes via Via Paolo Costa and Via San Vitale.
In 1602 the Church and the Mausoleum were separeted. Mausoleum should have contained the remains of Galla Placidia, the daughter of Teodosius the Great, the sister of Honorius and the mother of Valentinian IIId. Because her son was just six years old, she became regent of the Western Roman Empire. Placidia died in Rome in 450 and was buried in ...
Like many of the monuments in Ravenna, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is quite small and unimposing from the outside, although it is an attractive building in the roman style. About 12 metres by 10 metres in size, and built of red brick in the shape of a small cross and with a small dome, it was built in the first half of the 5th century ...
Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. All eight buildings – the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistery, the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, the Arian Baptistery, the Archiepiscopal ...
May 19, 2016 · One such monument is the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (386-452), built as a funerary building by the powerful Galla Placidia, the daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I (it was Galla Placidia’s brother, Honorius, who moved the capital of the Western Roman Empire to Ravenna). The building’s architecture and mosaics have preserved very well ...
According to tradition, this ancient building was made to house the tomb of Galla Placidia, daughter of Emperor Theodosius I (379-395) and half-sister of Honorius (393-423). After short marriages to a Visigothic king (414-16) and the Roman co-emperor Constantius III (417-21), the powerful empress became the virtual ruler of the western world ...
