Example sentences for: romanesque

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

  • The building’s Greco-Romanesque rotunda contrasts with the technological wizardry inside the Exploratorium — a modern hands-on science museum with changing exhibits that feature all kinds of natural phenomena.

  • Its two destinies come together in the Piazza del Duomo, where open-air cafés and ice cream parlors look up a long monumental staircase to the Arab-Norman campanile and polychrome mosaic façade of the Romanesque cathedral, built as a symbol of the republic’s glory.

  • Tuscania is a quiet little fortified town, recovering now from an earthquake in 1971 that luckily did not harm its two Romanesque churches on the eastern outskirts (check with the tourist office on Piazza Basile for erratic hours).

  • The Piazza del Duomo forms a harmonious space for the graceful octagonal baptistery, begun in 1196, and the austere nobility of the 12th-century Romanesque cathedral and its 13th-century campanile.

  • The bulky twin-towered cathedral, originally Romanesque, was redesigned in the 17th century.


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