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Overview of the events of 1760 in architecture
The year 1760 in architecture involved some significant events.
Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães
Buildings
- The Laleli Mosque ("Tulip Mosque") in Istanbul is begun (completed in 1763).
- St. George's Cathedral, Lviv, Ukraine, designed by Bernard Meretin, is completed.
- Servite Church, Vienna, designed by Martin Carlone, is consecrated.
- Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, designed by Giorgio Massari, is completed.
- Most Holy Trinity Church, Fulnek, Moravia, designed by Nikolaus Thalherr, is completed.
- Østre Porsgrunn Church in Telemark, Norway, designed by Lauritz de Thurah and Andreas Pfützner and built by Joen Jacobsen, is consecrated.
- Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, England, is completed.
- Interior rococo church decoration of the Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães in northern Portugal, designed by André Soares, is completed.
- Reredos of Our Lady of Light in Christo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is erected.
- Reconstruction of St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev by Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi is completed.
- Castellania in Valletta, completed by Giuseppe Bonnici to a design by Francesco Zerafa, is opened.
- Edinburgh City Chambers, designed by John Adam as the Royal Exchange, is opened.
- Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, England, designed by Sanderson Miller, is completed.
- Brockdorff's Palace in Copenhagen is completed.
- Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava is built.
- Palazzo Estense in Varese, Lombardy, designed by Giuseppe Bianchi, is completed.
- Selo Mansion in Ljubljana.
- New country house at Sølyst (Klampenborg) near Copenhagen is built.
- Arno's Court Triumphal Arch in Bristol, England, designed by James Bridges, is built.
- In Amalfi, at Duomo square, a Baroque fountain is built.
- In Cortona, Tuscany, La Mucchia casa vacanze, a typical Tuscan farmhouse, is built by Count Passerini of Cortona.[citation needed]
- The Old Brick Market, a "handsome expression of civic and commercial life" designed by Peter Harrison, opens in Newport, Rhode Island[1]
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