Entrance to the Mausoleo di Teodorico.

Side view.

The Mausoleum of Theodoric (Italian: Mausoleo di Teodorico) is an ancient monument just outside Ravenna, Italy. It was built in 520 by Theodoric the Great as his future tomb. Image File history File linksMetadata RavennaMausoleum. ... Image File history File linksMetadata RavennaMausoleum. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 1 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Mausoleum of Theodoric... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 1 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Mausoleum of Theodoric... Ravenna is a city and commune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... Events February 20 - Epiphanius elected Patriarch of Constantinople. ... Gold medallion of Theodoric, discovered at Sinigaglia, Italy in the 19th century. ...

Its current structure is divided into two decagonal orders, one above the other and both made of Istria stone. Its roof is a single 300–ton Istrian stone, 10 meters in diameter. A niche leads down to a room which was probably a chapel for funeral liturgies. A stair leads to the upper floor. Located in the centre of the floor is a circular porphyry tub, in which Theodoric was supposed to be buried. His remains were removed during Byzantine rule, when the mausoleum was turned into a Christian oratory. Silting from the nearby rivulet resulted in the mausoleum being partly submerged by the late 19th century, when it was drained and excavated. Coat of arms Istria (Istra, pronounced in Croatian and Slovenian; Istria, pronounced in Italian, Istrien, pronounced in German) is the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. ... Porphyry is a very hard igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. ... Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent c. ... Oratory is the art of eloquent speech. ...

It was inscribed with seven other "Early Christian Monuments and Mosaics of Ravenna" buildings as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1996. According to the ICOMOS evaluation, "the significance of the mausoleum lies in its Gothic style and decoration, which owe nothing to Roman or Byzantine art" and in the fact that "it is the only surviving example of a tomb of a barbarian king of this period". UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) was founded in 1965 as a result of the Venice Charter of 1964 and offers advice to UNESCO on World Heritage Sites. ...

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Coordinates: 44°25′30″N, 12°12′33″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...