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Column in Proconnesian marble with its capital "a farfalla"

Capital "a farfalla" with its pulvino

View of the apse with the mosaic rapresenting Saint Apollinare in the middle of a grass-field with twelve sheeps; above there is a big cross inside a clipeo

View of Saint Titus ad the ancient agorà

View of the ancient city of Gortyn, the praetorium

View of a three nave church with the presbyterium still standing; the walls are made of big and regular stone blocks

External view of the polygonal apse, made of big and regular stone blocks

Plygonal apse made of big and regular stone blocks

Arch made of bricks and re-used marble fragments

Arch made of bricks and re-used marble fragments

Pave mosaics with a pattern made by curved-side squares inside which there are blue birds and capricorns

Pave mosaics with a pattern made by curved-side squares inside which there are blue birds

Impost capital with a cross in the middle and acanthus leaves

Marble relief (maybe from an altar) with a frame made of little pearls and a floreal decoration

Impost capital with a cross in the middle and acanthus leaves

Half of a white-marble slab from an altar

Detail of frescoes of a window: a dove inside a clipeo, floreal patterns and winged creatures (angels?)

Mosaic of the dome: in the middle there is the episode of Christ's
baptism; all around the Apostles holding crowns

The crypt with its pave mosaics with sort of bod-pattern and a central square with a kantharos

View of the baroque frescoes in the niches of the second floor