{"id":25341,"date":"2023-05-18T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/santa-croce-basilica\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:52:40","slug":"santa-croce-basilica","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/santa-croce-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Croce Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basilica stands in the <strong>Stronghold of Santa Croce<\/strong> in the Castello neighbourhood, an area known as the Jewish Ghetto.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the building started out life as a <strong>synagogue<\/strong> for the Jewish community living in Castello as early as the XIII century; however, following the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims in 1492, on the orders of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castiglia, the building was converted for Christian worship. In 1661, thanks to a bequest from the aristocrat <strong>Anna Brodo<\/strong> of the Marquises of Villacidro, the building was <strong>renovated and extended<\/strong>; finally, in 1809, King Vittorio Emanuele I gifted the church to the <strong>Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus<\/strong>, elevating it to the status of <strong>Basilica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The main <strong>facade<\/strong> extends upwards with aspects that bring to mind <strong>Mannerism<\/strong>; it is horizontally divided by two cornices that hold a median band displaying the <strong>Jesuit stem<\/strong>. In the lower layout, the <strong>portal<\/strong> on top of the <strong>fragmented curvilinear gable<\/strong> opens up. This houses the <strong>Brodo<\/strong> <strong>coat of arms<\/strong> and an inscription to commemorate the donation.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, we find a barrel-vaulted <strong>single nave<\/strong> with false <strong>coffers<\/strong>, created by Ludovico Crespi, and three <strong>chapels<\/strong> each side with polychrome <strong>marble alters<\/strong> displaying eighteenth-century wooden simulacrums of the <strong>Madonna dell\u2019uva<\/strong> and <strong>Saint Stanislao Kostka<\/strong>, both the work of <strong>Neapolitan craftsmen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6197,"template":"","tipologia":[980,979],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1030],"class_list":["post-25341","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-basilica-en","tipologia-chiesa-en","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Santa Croce Basilica - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/santa-croce-basilica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santa Croce Basilica - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The basilica stands in the Stronghold of Santa Croce in the Castello neighbourhood, an area known as the Jewish Ghetto. 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