San Giovanni Battista (Corte)

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San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista near Corte (St. John the Baptist) in Corsica consisted of a three - aisled pre - Romanesque church and a neighboring baptistery , both from the 9th century. The ruins of the church are next to the former military training area. The former facades , especially those in the west with the portal and the respectable proportions, have been largely removed. Only the apse remained. Pilaster strips and arches made of yellow tuff stood out against the gray brickwork on all sides. Narrow windows, like those in the apse, will also have possessed the side walls of the naves of different heights , especially the higher and twice as wide central nave. The roofs were once covered with brown stone slabs (teghie). Inside, the remains of the flooring and an anvil , the choir screen and the schola have been preserved.

The unadorned baptistery is located on a higher ground terrace. The side entrance of an anteroom leads to the chapel, which is square in plan and has apses on three sides like a clover leaf. A narrow window opening is left open in the central, eastern apse.

See also

literature

  • Almut Rother and Frank Rother: Corsica. Art travel guide. Nature and culture on the island of beauty. DuMont Art Guide, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1186-9

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Coordinates: 42 ° 17 ′ 38.5 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 2 ″  E