Example sentences for: maggiore

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

  • Take the Via Tribunali to the Franciscan church of San Lorenzo Maggiore, with its Baroque façade incorporating the 14th-century marble porch, which was added after the earthquake of 1731.

  • Just four minutes by vaporetto from the Piazzetta, on its own little island, is the church of San Giorgio Maggiore; its campanile offers the most photogenic view of the city and its lagoon.

  • The town’s most venerable edifice is the 12th-century Romanesque basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

  • The Romanesque tower and rose window of Santa Maria Maggiore’s façade have a similar simple beauty.

  • Originally built in the fourth century on the Esquiline Hill site of a Roman temple to the goddess Juno, Santa Maria Maggiore is the largest and most splendid of the churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary.


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