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Cattedrale di San Giorgio

TIME : 2016/2/18 20:57:53

At the top end of the sloping Piazza Duomo is the town's pride and joy, the mid-18th-century cathedral with its magnificent neoclassical dome and stained-glass windows. It's set high above a grand staircase behind a palatial iron gate (the entrance is up the stairs to the left of the church). One of Rosario Gagliardi's finest accomplishments, its extravagant convex facade rises like a three-tiered wedding cake, supported by gradually narrowing Corinthian columns and punctuated by jutting cornices.

The interior is not quite as sumptuous, although there are two paintings by Dario Guerci and a statue of St George on horseback.