S.
GIOVANNI TERESTI
S. Giovanni Teresti and' interesting also for that
that l ' Byzantine art has left nell architecture and in the
frescos of its Church. L ' apse, in fact, and a vague interlacement
of tiles and of material lapideo, alternated by candid layers
of mortar that the grace of this part makes dell very animated
building. L ' archaeologist Paolo Orsi, writes: << As
in all he/she asked her of this type, the part worthiest of
admiration and the dome, planned on four mighty pillars, sorreggenti
as many arcs of which two to everything sixth and the others
two acute >>. << This dome approves dall I express
it consists of a square drum sorreggente a circular, encircled
by sixteen mullions in cooked, on which the low terminal cap
abandons him >>. << Now this whole mass rossigna
aggiuge Paul Orsi, on I break down him/it nereggiante of the
woods and on that clear dell I sky, it produced a game of
colors that was not casual but of sought after intention and
wanted by the builders; to the how much different in the particular,
but identical ones in the goal, it was the game of the policromia.
Currently Mountain ATOS, with Monks returned in the mother
earth Great Greece. Also the Toesca admits in this building
an oriental influence and approaches him/it to the church
him Saint Maria of Artik in Armenia. The pictorial fragments
already remembered announce, according to him, schools and
maestranze of sacred painters, certainly basiliani in frequent
contacts with oriental maestranze. V ' was the relics of our
S. Giovanni Teresti, they were the relics, confined for the
space of years 540 but March 12 th 1662 with solemn procession
formed by the Clergy, from religious more orders, from different
brotherhoods squadronate under his/her own crosses and situated
to the new Monastery, the convent and the church of S. Giovanni
in Stylus (Church and Convent St. Giovanni in Stylus Stylus
).
The convent and the church of S. Giovanni in Stylus, but the
boundaries, had been erect out at the monks of S. Francesco
of Paola in 1625. Subsequently, in 1662 they got them the
Basilianis that devoted the place to S. Giovanni Teresti,
whose relics were transported here, as we have already narrated,
the 24 June of 1847 the bishop of Squillace P. Concezio Pasquini
you perform the recognition of the bones of S. Giovanni Teresti:
the same day on July 8, in which in 1122 the pope Callisto
II I consecrate, to the presence of Roger the Norman one already
miracolato from the Saint, the convent of S. Giovanni <<
in nemore >>.
THE
TOWER IS THE CASTLE OF ST. THREADS
A'. 340 meters high on the level of the sea,
on a rocky spur, it polls Stignano, name that derives from
the Latin " stenianum ", hamlet of Stylus, important
the cylindrical tower of St. Threads with function of sighting
and watch coordinated with the apparatus of defense against
the Saracen and Turkish invasions (You Tower of St. Threads
Stignano
).
In the same place a building-fortitude of beautiful invoice
that dominates the underlying beach towers (The Castle of
St. Threads Stignano
).
RIACE
TERRA OF THE BRONZES
Not away from Stenianum, the commune of Riace, where
August 16 th 1972, in a history some doubtful, accidentally
the Bronzes of Riace were open (The Bronzes of Riace )
.
VILLA
CARISTO
Private Ownership of the gentlemen Caristo, sita in
the region Scina. Through an avenue he comes all entry of
the villa, dominated by a monumental external staircase in
stone, that salt from the two sides leaving the place to the
center to a stupendous statue raffigurante Clorinda and Tancredi
and at the end of the park the fountain marmoria of the dolphins
(Villa Caristo Stignano )
.
THE
SURROUNDED BUILDING AND THE ENTRANCES A'. STILO
Imposing and stately the Surrounded Building and the
Entrances to Stylus that I/you/they are five, one of the most
important and suggestive the Door Stefanina (Stefanina Stilo
Brings her
).
Near the entrances they detach fountains of notable beauty
(Fountain Gebbia Stilo
)
l ' water that gushes out has some particular ownerships,
a lot of diuretica and light, a lot of the people that come
you to fill you the pitchers (Her Three fountains Pazzano
).
THE
CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS D ' SAT DOWN
Attached to the convent that partly and still existing,
it artistically has a façade a lot of movement from niches,
objects, broken and curved lines attestanti the unusual gratification
of an elegant Baroque, without pretensions but deprived at
the same time of the exaggerations proper of this address
of art: an elegant and light whole that satisfies l ' eye
dell observer. L ' interns to Latin cross, also introduces
in the time of the aisle some round ones these shaped in forms
polygonal representatives the death of Abele and the sacrifice
of Melchisedeh. The priest's pianeggiamentis, of Abramo and
l ' I reign of Caino they recall the way of the facts really
of a painter to his/her first enterprises and we would not
know whom to attribute these frescos to that however they
would need greater attention. From the choir he enters a vain
that from access to a staircase to snail, sets nell I intern
of the bell tower. The convent preserves intact good part
of the atrium in you tan worked in grey granite it races around
with great airy arcades to a cistern, works of maestranze
serresi, and properly from the teacher chisels Francis Canigli.
The cells of the monks were provided of breadths fireplaces,
some of which you/they still exist. They have gone destroyed
the part that surrounded the refectory and the side close
to the Church (Church St. Francis d' Assisi Stylus
).
In this time Guardavalle was one of the hamlets that it belonged
to the university' of Stylus: they explain him so the relationships
among the Lilio, the Sirleto and Gregorio XIII. Stylus was
in his maximum to bloom for the florid economic conditions,
for the building development, the beautiful and admirable
entourage of its boundaries, as well as' for his a lot of
churches and the conspicuous number of the cohabitants. They
lived, over the Sirleto, the Campanella, F. Cozza and many
other conspicuous citizens in the religious hierarchies, as
to his/her time we will see. The actual dome of the church
not and that ancient, collapsed improvisamente some decades
ago. In the actual form was reconstructed for work of the
hard-working priest of the time, mons. Vincent Pisani.
