The actual building of the former church of San Giuliano is what remains of a large and important settlement already documented in 774 A.D.

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Architects: CN10 architetti

Location: 24040 Bonate Sotto BG, Italy

Client: Municipality of Bonate Sotto, Private client

Area: 200.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Gianluca Gelmini

© Gianluca Gelmini

The actual building of the former church of San Giuliano is what remains of a large and important settlement already documented in 774 A.D.

Before. Image © Gianluca Gelmini

Detail - Mediaval Apse

Together with the Basilica of S. Giulia, it is an important example of early medieval architecture in the territory south of the city of Bergamo. The settlement was born to manage and control the large possessions of the wealthy lombard families. During the XII century it became the site of a female Benedictine monastery, in this period the settlement lived one of its richest and most important moments, in which begin the reconstruction of the church in the Romanesque style. 
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Plan

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In the eighteenth century, with the secularization of the monastery, the materials, the structure and architecture of the ancient church of San Giuliano it ...