Cagli Cathedral () is a

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in the town of

Cagli Cagli is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, central Italy. It is c. south of Urbino. The Burano flows near the town. History Cagli occupies the site of an ancient village on the Via Flaminia, which seems to have ...

, in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, region of

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, dedicated to the

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. It was formerly the episcopal seat of the

Diocese of Cagli The diocese of Cagli e Pergola was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the Marche, central Italy, in the province of Pesaro and Urbino. Up until 1563 it was under the direct supervision of the Roman pontiff. In that year, the diocese of ...

; since 1986 it has been a co-cathedral in the Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. It was granted the status of a

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in 1982.

History

Construction of a cathedral on the site began in 1292, and was not complete until the early 15th century. The structure as seen today was rebuilt in 1646. It still has a rounded apse, and buttresses along the nave. The Gothic portal (1413) of the previous church was retained.Office of Tourism of the province of Pesaro and Urbino
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Artworks

The interior houses canvases by a number of prominent artists. In the second chapel on the south nave are paintings of 1758 depicting ''Sant'Andrea Avellino'', ''Communion of the Apostles'' and the ''Gathering of Manna'' by

Gaetano Lapis Gaetano Lapis (1706–1773) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Biography Lapis was born on 13 August 1706 in the central Italian city of Cagli, the son of Filippo Lapis, a wool merchant, and his wife Olimpia Orlandini of Cantian ...

. In the third chapel on the same nave is an altarpiece depicting the ''Madonna del Carmine'' (1720) by

Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, wh ...

. In the transept is a painting of ''The Patron Saints of Cagli'' (1704) by

Luigi Garzi Luigi Garzi (1638–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period whose style was strongly influenced by the work of the Bolognese painter Guido Reni. Biography He was born in Pistoia. He started learning from a poorly known landscape paint ...

and the ''Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and John the Baptist'' commissioned in 1695 by the

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s of Florence and painted by a member of the Nasini family. In the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament are two further canvases (1754 and 1756) by Gaetano Lapis. Gaetano Lapis 1

In the north nave is an ''Annunciation'', a copy of a painting by

Federico Barocci Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) ( – 30 September 1612) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foresha ...

, completed by his studio, and a fragment of a 16th-century fresco of the ''Immaculate Conception'' attributed to Giuliano Persciutti of

Fano Fano () is a city and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by pop ...

(though perhaps by Dionigi of Cagli). There is a 17th-century representation of the ''Eternal Father'' by the local artist Giambattista Gambarini in the tympanum above the altar. The organ was built by Nicola Morettini in 1889.

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