Italy
The Lombard Romanesque style north of the Apennines and in Ampulia was in diverse exchange with architecture on the other side of the Alps. The Adriatic coasts of the Italian peninsula and Dalmatia have strong Byzantine influences, starting partly from the crusader ports (Venice and Apulia). In the south of Italy like in Sicily, the Romanesque architecture is characterized by an Arab-Byzantine-Norman symbiosis in art.