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The 6th-century basilica stands among the fields outside Ravenna. Its wide nave is lined with Proconnesian marble columns whose capitals curl like leaves in a breeze, topped by Byzantine pulvini and roundels of Ravenna’s archbishops. Along the aisles, sarcophagi trace four centuries of sculpture, from 5th to 8th. The apse glows in green and gold: a starry sky, a golden cross inscribed IXΘYOC above and Salus Mundi below, flanked by Moses and Elijah; and beneath, Saint Apollinaris lifts his hands among twelve lambs in a pine-studded landscape. UNESCO-listed, it is early Christian art at its best.