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22: 105: 152: 113: 186:. Over time the pagan bust became a symbol of the city, and paradoxically found itself protected inside a church. It was damaged and threatened with destruction during the periods after the Neapolitan Republic of 1647 and of 1799. In the latter period the bust came to be associated with 132:"). For some time, the church too belonged to the knights. The hostel was closed by Napoleonic forces, but was returned to the Church in 1828. The church building has been recently restored. Interior columns are 262: 171:, it was once found in the Piazza del Mercato ("Plaza of the Marketplace"). The bust was most likely once part of a sculpture depicting the Greek mythological 124:
church was erected by Benedictine monks before the 12th century. By the 13th century, the church was attached to a hostel of the knightly order of
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In the atrium is a copy of an ancient Greek bust; the original is currently in the
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12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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[ˈsandʒoˈvanniamˈmaːre]
Naples
Sant'Eligio Maggiore


Romanesque
Knights Hospitaller
spolia
Amalfi

Palazzo San Giacomo
siren
Parthenope
Odysseus
Bay of Naples
Marianne
French Revolution
Napoli
40°50′47″N 14°15′48″E / 40.846525°N 14.263270°E / 40.846525; 14.263270
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Former churches in Naples
12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy

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