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The 14th-century basilica of San Petronio ranks among the most imposing of Italy’s Gothic churches.
Its basilica, like the peaceful medieval town center, has been beautifully preserved, and the centuries-old pilgrim trade manages (sometimes just barely) to avoid the unashamed commercialism that blights other religious shrines.
The Neo-Gothic Basilica of Notre-Dame (Sussex at Guigues) was born with the capital.
At the center, Piazza dei Signori is graced by Palladio’s first public work, the Basilica Palladina (1549), not a church at all, but the old Roman concept of a gathering place for the lawcourts and assemby hall of the Gothic Palazzo della Ragione that it encases with a colonnade and loggia.
You’ll find the basilica’s most treasured work of art, Michelangelo’s sublime Pietà — Mary with the dead Jesus on her lap — in its own chapel to the right of the entrance.