| Co-Cathedral. Located in the historic centre. It was founded at the end of the XIth by the Normans. Today it is home of the Chapter, and is home to the parish. The building houses the Confraternity of the Immaculate is medieval, Romanesque and Gothic. The sculpted portals are of Romanesque style.
The facade has three parts by pilasters the full height and has three romanesque portals; The central one, richly carved, presents a double archway, decorated with figures of animals and plants, on which stands a sovrarco, that is governed by a pair of griffins of stone that hold the prey in its talons. Everything is in turn supported by columns, ending with Corinthian capitals, resting on two marble lions in actual size.
Architrave is carved in low relief, with scenes of Annunciation, Visitation, Epiphany, Presentation in the Temple. The bezel is then represented, always in low relief, an Anastasis.
Inside: beamed ceiling, painted; galleries; crypt mosaic medieval imagery; pulpit of the thirteenth century. |