Images Dated 23rd September 2007

Mosaic, Euphrasius Basilica, Porec, Croatia

View of the mosaic above the entrance to the Euphrasius Basilica at Porec, on the western coast of Istria, Croatia. The early Byzantine church was named after Euphrasius, the Bishop of Porec who commissioned the three-nave basilica in the 6th century, to be built on the site of an earlier church

© Mary Evans/Hubertus Kanus

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