Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe

Basilica of Saint Apollinaris in Classe
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe
The Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Religion
AffiliationCatholic
ProvinceArchdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia
RegionEmilia-Romagna
Year consecrated549
Location
LocationClasse, Ravenna, Italy
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe is located in Italy
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Shown within Italy
Geographic coordinates44°22′49″N 12°13′59″E / 44.3802738°N 12.2330015°E / 44.3802738; 12.2330015
Architecture
StyleByzantine architecture
GroundbreakingEarly 6th century
Official name: Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, iii, iv
Designated1996 (20th session)
Reference no.788
State PartyItaly
RegionEurope and North America
The west front or façade.

The Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe ("Saint Apollinaris in Classe") is a church in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, consecrated on 9 May 549 by the bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna and Classe.

An important monument of Byzantine art, in 1996 it was inscribed with seven other nearby monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage List, which described it as "an outstanding example of the early Christian basilica in its purity and simplicity of its design and use of space and in the sumptuous nature of its decoration".