Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta

Wrapped in the life of 2000 years ago .. an emotional journey back in time: who are we? Where do we come from?

Aquileia History surrounds us.

(IT) Beautiful archaeological site, a lot to see within a few hundred meters. With the excellent idea of ​​the single ticket (€ 10) you can visit most of the sites. Negative points: the basilica ticket office only accepts cash and no discount for over 65. Family discount only with mother and father, no other relationship accepts. (EN) A very beautiful archeological place where in a hundred meters you can found a lot to see. I suggest to use the "basilica complex" ticket (10 € only) for visit the major part of sites. Not good is the fact that electronic payments are not accepted in the basilica ticket office and no discount are foreseen for people over 65 Y. O .. Family discounts only with mother + father, no other patents accepted.

Really beautiful basilica !!! If you pass by Aquileia a visit to the basilica is a must !!! Inside you are amazed! The floor is fantastic, all completely mosaic ... To be amazed! While you are there, if the day is beautiful, take the opportunity to go over the bell tower !! You can enjoy a beautiful panorama and you can see most of Aquileia and its excavations. Believe, the money for the entrance is well spent!

Aquileia, with its archaeological area and the patriarchal Basilica, is a precious treasure chest of art and history. It is really worth the visit.

Basilica whose roots go back to the years immediately following 313 AD. when the first place of worship was built. Over the centuries, after the destruction of this bishopric, the inhabitants rebuilt it four times, superimposing the new buildings on the remains of the previous ones, thus creating different phases of the Basilica: Teodoriana, Fortunaziana, Cromaziana, Massenziana and Pomponiana.

A few years after the edict of Milan of 313 in Aquileia there is a basilica, consisting of two parallel halls and joined by a third with a baptismal space. Aquileia is one of the first Christian places of worship. One of the most important river ports of the ancient world developed in Aquileia, an ideal point for trade and a stop on any route to North and East Europe. This meant that there was a spread of philosophical and religious ideas. In the first centuries there was the presence of Gnostic currents, mystery cults and a large Jewish community. According to tradition, the founder of the Church of Aquileia would be the evangelist Mark and Ermagora the first bishop. At the beginning of the 4th century in Aquileia, Theodore was bishop, who built and consecrated the first Basilica of Aquileia. Between 325 and 381 the church intensely experienced the clash between Nicene Orthodoxy and Arian heresy, a season of uncertainty due to doubts about doctrinal foundations but also to increasingly religious and political intertwining. (source: Aquileia, frontier city) THE BASILICA: built starting from 313 (Edict of Constantine) by Bishop Theodore, with the support of the emperor himself; the buildings (known as Theodorian halls) can still be visited in the main nave of the current Basilica and also parts that surround the bell tower (to the left of the nave itself). They probably rested on granaries of the Roman period, or in any case Roman buildings given the presence of plaster and decorations from that period. Access to this first basilica was from the east, then there were service rooms such as the changing rooms (here the catechumens stripped of their clothes and then received baptism in the adjacent baptistery). The large parallel halls, one of which is precisely the one that makes up the nave of today's basilica, measured about 37x20 m, connected to each other by a vestibule. There was no apse, so much so that the general plan is a large rectangle. The classrooms had six columns, on which there was a decorated coffered ceiling. ENGLISH: A few years after the edict of Milan of 313 in Aquileia there is a basilica, consisting of two parallel halls and joined by a third with a baptismal space. Aquileia is one of the first Christian places of worship. One of the most important river ports of the ancient world developed in Aquileia, an ideal point for trade and a stop on any route to North and East Europe. This meant that there was a spread of philosophical and religious ideas. In the first centuries there was the presence of Gnostic currents, mystery cults and a large Jewish community. According to tradition, the founder of the Church of Aquileia would be the evangelist Mark and Ermagora the first bishop. At the beginning of the 4th century in Aquileia, Theodore was bishop, who built and consecrated the first Basilica of Aquileia. Between 325 and 381 the church intensely experienced the clash between Nicene Orthodoxy and Arian heresy, a season of uncertainty due to doubts about doctrinal foundations but also to increasingly religious and political intertwining. (source: Aquileia, frontier city) THE BASILICA: built starting from 313 (Edict of Constantine) by Bishop Theodore, with the support of the Emperor; the buildings (known as Theodorian halls) can still be visited in the main nave of the current Basilica and also parts that surround the bell tower (to the left of the nave itself). They probably rested on granaries of the Roman period, or in any case Roman buildings given the presence of plaster and decorations from that period. Access to this first basilica was from the east, then there were service rooms such as the changing rooms (here the catechumens stripped of their clothes and then received baptism in the adjacent baptistery). The large parallel halls, one of which is precisely the one that makes up the nave of today's basilica, measured about 37x20 m, connected to each other by a vestibule. The classrooms had six columns, on which there was a decorated coffered ceiling.