Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta

It was built in 1292. The current state of the architectural structure is the result of numerous and successive manipulations. In 1781 a terrible earthquake caused the death of 68 people. The strong shock provoked the irreparable collapse of the dome built around 1707. For various reasons it was decided to close the dome like a basin and to lower the nearby bell tower. The cathedral was reopened for worship in 1792. The entrance has a Madonna and Child with Saints Michael the Archangel and Hieronymus by Ludovico Viviani da Urbino in the lunette. The two portals are the work of Michelangelo Boni who worked there in 1842. The layout of the current church is a Latin cross marked by three naves. At the bottom of the nave there is the funeral monument to Sante Mochi by "Checchino" Benni. In the second chapel on the right there is the canvas with the Death of Sant'Andrea Avellino, by Gaetano Lapis. In the marble altar of the Annunciation (the fourth on the right), there is a copy of the Barocci Annunciation by one of his pupils Antonio Cimatori, called Visacci. Another fine work belonging to the eighteenth-century Roman school is the canvas with the Madonna and Child appearing in Santa Teresa, commissioned by Sebastiano Conca in 1720. Of notable importance is the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament which houses the two large canvases by Gaetano Lapis.