San Donato Genova

The perfectly oriented system, with three naves ending in apses, the raised transept, the tower as a lantern above the high altar: a rational and linear geometry that marks an important design effort, in an era where resources wew scarce, so much as to reuse as much as possible of the Roman remains available a few meters away. In the following century, the church was raised with a false gallery between the naves and it gained lenght by moving the façade and reducing the space of the square. The central apse has a well-lit choir and the simple and linear plan remained until the opening of the oratorio dei Falegnami, in the 17th century side chapel.