Camerino Cathedral (, ''Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunziata'') is a Neoclassical

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and

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, dedicated to the

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, in

Camerino Camerino is a town in the province of Macerata, Marche, central-eastern Italy. It is located in the Apennines bordering Umbria, between the valleys of the rivers Potenza and Chienti, about from Ancona. Camerino is home to the University of Ca ...

, Region of

Marche Marche ( ; ), in English sometimes referred to as the Marches ( ) from the Italian name of the region (Le Marche), is one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. The region is located in the Central Italy, central area of the country, ...

, Italy. Since 1987 it has been the seat of the Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, having been the seat of the Archbishops of Camerino from 1787 and previously that of the Bishops of Camerino.

History

The present church was built in 1802–1832 based on designs by

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and . It was erected on the site of the previous medieval Romanesque- Gothic cathedral, destroyed in the 1799 earthquake. The sacristy still houses works such as a 13th-century painted crucifix, a 15th-century icon of the ''Madonna della Misericordia'', and other paintings. The church once housed a large polyptych by Carlo Crivelli, which was disassembled and sold: the central panel is now in the

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in Milan. One of the chapels once contained frescoes, now lost, by Andrea Sacchi. The crypt has two 14th-century lions sculpted by Armanno da Pioraco, a bust of Cardinal

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and his brother Prospero by followers of Bernini, and a marble 14th- or 15th-century coffin holding the relics of Saint Ansovinus (a 9th-century bishop of Camerino). The cathedral was declared a minor basilica in 1970.Tourism of March entry.

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