Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

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title	Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
category	church
description
The Basilica of Santa Maria dei Frari represents - after the Basilica of San Marco - the most remarkable religious complex in the city of Venice and one of the most significant Franciscan foundation in Italy. Built between 1250 and 1338, by the Franciscan Conventual Friars, it was rebuilt in the fourteenth century, perhaps on a draft of friar Scipione Bon, in a more grandious form and in Gothic-Cistercian style, with three naves and seven apsidal chapels. The Basilica, during the centuries, has turned into an incredible treasure chest of works of art of exceptional importance and value, expressing the devotion to Venice from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
link	Chorus Venezia