Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

On the edge of Piazza Duomo, this cathedral presents a stern, symmetrical face to the world. Its salient façade is divided into three sections, mirroring the interior, and braced by four buttresses. Three portals and three rose windows, the central pair larger than their flanking companions, pierce the stonework beneath a plain roof of terracotta tiles.

Inside, the rectangular plan opens into three aisles, each ending in an apse, separated by two rows of seven pillars. The wooden roof trusses are left exposed, except for one bay on the left where a ribbed cross-vault intrudes. The presbytery, transepts and apse rise a step above the nave floor; above the high altar, a square-based dome pushes through the roof as a modest tiburium.

The cathedral's furnishings are numerous, seats, altars, confessionals, a pulpit, organs, stalls. In the right aisle hangs a wooden crucifix from the Telesio chapel, while two wooden confessionals stand between the entrances to the Pilerio and Death chapels. The building connects directly to the archbishop's residence and to several confraternity chapels.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.