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In the same grounds is the magnificent three-story brick basilica of San Vitale, consecrated in 547.
Alongside the basilica, the remains of a medieval royal palace have been excavated and restored, and today house the Castle Museum.
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.
He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.
The funicular (it takes métro and bus tickets) climbs to the terrace in front of the Byzantine-style basilica of Sacré-Cœur.