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The Cathedral of Cortona: "il Duomo"

The "Duomo"

The Cathedral of Cortona is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and it rises on the heart of Cortona. The cathedral, or as all people from Cortona call it “Duomo”, was built on the rest of a first parish church already documented in 1086, and it had got a Romanesque style. The Parish church rose on the rests of a pagan temple that probably dates back to fifth and sixth century. In 1262, almost 200 year later from the first building, the church was restored. The church that you can see  today was designed in the second half of fifteenth century, and it was built incorporating the early church, from which you could find the traces in the stones of the façade. The style passed from the Romanesque style, that you can see in the sobriety and asymmetry of the façade, to the Renaissance Romanesque with the interior with three aisles with light capital columns and arches to hold the vault. The Cathedral is the main church of Cortona, one of the most important churches in town, and here the majority of religious function of the city take place.

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