Church of Santa Maria piè del Chienti.(IX cent.)
The building has a very original architectural form in Italy, we can pull over to the churches of pilgrimage French Burgundian style. Indeed, it has a basilica plan with three aisles, where the central one is wider and covered with a high roof trusses, built entirely in brick. It is enclosed by two overlapping semicircular apses where basic, larger, has three elegant radiating chapels. It is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture, not only in the Marche region who do not have the Romanesque churches of this size and shapes. In Italy, the Santissima Annunziata Montecosaro is one of only five plants with the choir with ambulatory and radiating apses, architectural figure of the pilgrim Church in that allow the passage of the faithful of passage that used to stop and pray in chapels without disturbing the sacred collective functions that took place in the middle. Elongated with the apses in the east and especially with a very slender verticality of the nave was intended that once free of clutter and supported by the women's gallery that was rising above the aisles, covered with vaults, and with a structure similar to the great cathedrals French vanished as Cluny III. In fact, today the central nave and the chancel much of the area devoted to the liturgical function covered by vaults which support an upper floor at the same level of balconies designed to support the static thrust of the high walls. As you can see the difference today in brick and some stylistic devices, the right wall of the nave, facing south, should be collapsed inward so they had to be built on the upper floor of the presbytery to support it and prevent further collapse. It is therefore a mistake to consider as certain as the crypt below the church. It is in fact the church itself that has been covered since the time of construction, due to lack of manpower and skilled workers from the technical point of view than those of .....wikipedia read
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