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The church of San Giovanni Maggiore is the most important churches basilica of Naples, located off the eponymous, near St. Bonaventure in the old city. In its vicinity, including the monumental church of San Bonaventura. The property is closed for decades for the restoration and archaeological investigations. The imperial grant freedom of worship, beginning with the famous Edict of 313, made possible the construction of this church, a place of worship outdoors, and also inspired many legends about the reasons for its construction. One of these legends is said that Constantine had wanted to build the church as a thanksgiving for the narrow escape from a shipwreck of his daughter Constance. The era of the founding of the basilica, affixed to a preexisting pagan temple (probably dedicated to Hercules or Antinous), would be placed around the year 324, as corroborated by an inscription from the Greek era discovered on a lintel. However, it is certain that a large rebuilding took place over two centuries later by Bishop Vincent (in office between 558 and 581). Probably the basilica, built during the Byzantine domination of Belisarius, was rich in mosaics and domes (Bartolomeo Capasso - greek-Roman Naples - Naples, 1905) and was then rebuilt in Norman and Angevin first then.
The last substantial transformation occurred through the work of Dionisio Lazzari in 1685 and subsequently and the transformations those eighteenth-century baroque which meant that most did not remain much of the original temple. A disastrous fall of fragments of the vault paintings in the late nineteenth century initiated other programs to restore, the last of which are still ongoing for decades, which moved the closure of the church for worship and sightseeing. The church has undergone numerous plunder by thieves. The church currently shows a typical system basilica, a nave and two aisles with nine chapels, a transept with two chapels and larger. Traces of early Christian building are kept visible in the apse of semicircular form, consisting of four arches supported by pillars that gave up an ambulatory, in continuation of the aisles. On the counter is shown to the disciples of John the Baptist Preaching, which is dedicated to the holy church, in a large fresco by Giuseppe De Vivo (1730). Mutilated by repeated thefts in successive years, is, however, the impressive altar by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, built in 1743, and limited by two marble balustrades. For there are two sides of the Roman Corinthian columns with pulvini of the sixth century.
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