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The 19th-century Neo-Gothic Notre-Dame Basilica was designed by James O’Donell, an Irish Protestant New Yorker so inspired by his assignment that he converted to Catholicism.
The great dome of Parliament, equal in height to that of the basilica, is clearly visible from the square.
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.
Just outside of Marbella are three other places with ancient historic connections: the Roman Villa mosaics dating from the first and second centuries at Río Verde near the beach; the Paleo-Christian basilica Vega del Mar in San Pedro de Alcántara; and the Las Bovedas (The Cellars) Roman baths at Guadalmina.
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.