Sirmione, Italy
150 AD
Syracuse, Italy
3rd century BCE
Taranto, Italy
6th
Trieste, Italy
100-0 BC
Como, Italy
0-100 AD
Rome, Italy
c. 220 AD
Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy
3rd century BCE
Provincia di Agrigento, Italy
500 BCE
Pompei, Italy
0-100 AD
Brescia, Italy
69-96 AD
Rome, Italy
4th century AD
Aosta, Italy
around 0-10 AD
Brindisi, Italy
2nd century AD
Rome, Italy
104 AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Syracuse, Italy
1st century AD
Milan, Italy
2nd century AD
Pozzuoli, Italy
1st century AD
Sassari, Italy
4000-3600 BCE
Rome, Italy
272 BCE
The Church of St Donatus name refers to Donatus of Zadar, who began construction on this church in the 9th century and ended it on the northeastern part of the Roman forum. It is the largest Pre-Romanesque building in Croatia.
The beginning of the building of the church was placed to the second half of the 8th century, and it is supposed to have been completed in the 9th century. The Zadar bishop and diplomat Donat (8th and 9th centuries) is credited with the building of the church. He led the representations of the Dalmatian cities to Constantinople and Charles the Great, which is why this church bears slight resemblance to Charlemagne's court chapels, especially the one in Aachen, and also to the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. It belongs to the Pre-Romanesque architectural period.
The circular church, formerly domed, is 27 m high and is characterised by simplicity and technical primitivism.