Chiesa di Santa Maria de Armenis
Matera, Italy
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The Chiesa di Santa Maria de Armenis is a cave church located in Matera, Italy, carved into the rock characteristic of the region's distinctive settlement pattern. Built in the Armenian architectural tradition and incorporating Romanesque stylistic elements, the church represents a rare fusion of Eastern and Western medieval religious architecture within the Italian landscape of Matera, an ancient city renowned for its network of cave dwellings and rupestrian churches.
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- Matera, Italy
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