Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Todi)

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The Cathedral of Todi is dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta and see the city from above. Probably built in the eleventh century , on the ruins of an earlier church , the temple is the work - in the Lombard style - Masters of Como. It was almost completely renovated in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries , thus losing some of the original characters . Changed in the sixteenth century , it was transformed in the mid- nineteenth century, and restored in 1953-1958 .
Outside, is the bell tower of the thirteenth century . The façade is preceded by a long flight of steps and is characterized by the beauty of the portals and rosettes . The three portals are adorned with beautiful ornaments : the central one stands on the bezel of the group of the Virgin and Child, attributed to Giovanni Pisano , the son of Nicholas. The central rosette is a real jewel of the sixteenth century , is a masterpiece " conducted with the delicacy of lace ."
The interior has three naves and a Latin cross plan , and a fourth nave was built in the fourteenth century. Among the valuable works of art are preserved here , you can admire : entering on the counter , a Judgement of Ferraù of Faenza, said Faenzone , the end of the sixteenth century, the pillars of the apse, two tables of Spain, and at the baptismal font , another panel of the same Spain, depicting the Trinity, three statues of the school of Giovanni Pisano , a thirteenth-century Crucifixion of the Umbrian school , painting on wood , a magnificent wooden choir, 1530, carved and inlaid by Antonio and Sebastian Bencivenni from Mercatello . The crypt of the twelfth century houses a wooden crucifix of the eighteenth century , and many tombstones.