Example sentences for: basilica

How can you use “basilica” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Where the palazzo joins the basilica’s southernmost flank is the Porta della Carta (Gate of the Paper, where the doge posted his decrees and scribes gathered).

  • The mosaic also shows the basilica with the famous bronze horses brought from Constantinople after the Crusade of 1204 (the ones over the triple-arched main entrance are copies, the originals are kept in the basilica museum since their recent restoration).

  • Unfortunately, the basilica was the region’s one structure that suffered the most damage during the earthquakes of 1997, whose epicenter was located just outside of Assisi.

  • To the south, the more dilapidated Temple of Hera (also known, mistakenly, as the Basilica) is a hundred years older and is Paestum’s oldest, predating Athen’s Parthenon by one hundred years.

  • In its sparkling new premises on Sussex Drive opposite the Basilica of Notre-Dame, the National Gallery of Canada is the object of an enchanting half-day excursion.


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