2. Architecture
The basilica of san zeno has a romanesque art and architecture.
Romanesque buildings had round arches ,thick walls and only a few windows.
Romanesque sculpture were adapted to fit the space available in an existing
buildings.
4. Central church
Also attacked to the basilica is the church the remains of San Procolo in
italy who was the fourth bishop ofVerona are kept .it dates from the 6th or
7th century being built in the christanian necropolis crossing the Gallica
Way .it was mentioned formthe first time however ,only in 845.After the
earthquake of 1117it was completitly rebuilt
5. The bell tower
The bell tower stands as a separate building. It is 62 m-high and was begun in 1045 and
completed in 1178. It is stylistically Romanesque like the church, having a central vertical
belt of alternating tuff and brickwork bands. It is divided in floors by cornices and small
tuff arches, and ris
6. The facade edit
The favade of San Zeno forms the model for all
romanesque later buildings in Verona .Built with tuff
cream ,the facade is divided into three vertical steets ,the
central nave topped with a pediment and the two side
with a pediment and the two side with sloping roofs ,all
supported by small blind archeswith slope .The
insterections of the three parts are the three parts are
marked by angled pilasters that in capitals with leaves
below the pediment.
7. History
San Zeno died in 380.On his grave ,along the
Gallica Way ,the first church ,of small size ,was
erected by Teodorico el Grade .king of the
Ostrogoths .this city was destroyed in the 9th
century ,but was inmediatly rebuilt bishop
Rothaldus and king Pepin of Italy.the building
was in turn destroyed by a Magyar invasions at
the beggining of the 10th century
8. The Crypt
The crypt dates from the tenth century ,and since 921
it has housed the body of San Zeno in a sarcophagus
,with its face covered by a silver mask .The crypt has a
central nave with eight sides whose arches are
supported by 49 columns ,each with a different
capital .
In the arches of the entrance, the local sculptor
Adamino da San Giogio carved decoration with
capricious and monstrous animals. The crypt was
restored in the 13th and 16 th centuries
9. The abbey
Attached to the basilica is an abbey was erected in the
9th century over a pre-existing monastery. Of the
original structure, destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars,
only a large brick tower and the cloisters survive. It had
originally another tower and the abbot's palace. For
long time the abbey was the city's official residence of
the Holy Roman Emperors. In the 1980s a restoration
discovered frescoes from the 12th to 15th centuries.
