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The Cathedral of Vallo della Lucania was built in its present form between 1700 and 1736, next to a church dating back to the X-XI century, to cope with the growing number of faithful that the small medieval church, demolished in 1802, could no longer contain. The cult building was raised to the rank of cathedral in 1851 by a bull of Pope Pius IX.

The Cathedral of Verona was built from 1120 to 1187 on an ancient 4th century church destroyed by an earthquake in 1117. Over the centuries, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, the church underwent various modifications. The present layout of the façade dates from the 16th century.

The cathedral of Viana do Castelo was built in the 15th century, with a stone facade in transitional Romanesque style with Gothic influences. It has a Latin cross plan, with three widely spaced naves, each with four bays, a projecting transept, a chancel and rectangular apses. The main façade is flanked by two large crenellated towers, and the entrance is formed by an ogival arch with three highly decorated archivolts.

The Cathedral of Vicenza is of early Christian origin but has been rebuilt several times, the last time from 1444. The dome and the north side portal, designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of a list of several buildings in the Veneto region. During the Second World War, the cathedral was badly hit by Allied bombardments, which destroyed the dome, a large part of the nave and severely damaged the façade and the southern chapels. The frescoes that covered the interior were irretrievably lost. Reconstruction and restoration work began immediately after the conflict but continued until 2002.

The Cathedral of Zamora was built between 1151 and 1174 and is one of the most complete examples of Romanesque architecture in Spain. The cloister and bell tower were completed in the 13th century. The three original apses were replaced by a Gothic head in the 16th century.

Church built between the 13th and 14th centuries, according to the Gothic models of Northern France. The building was seriously damaged by the Huguenots in 1657.

Nîmes Cathedral is a neo-classical church with neo-Byzantine furnishings dating from the 17th century. The surviving medieval parts, especially in the western façade, such as the gable wall, date from a late Romanesque construction phase in the mid 12th century. During the Wars of Religion, Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor was severely damaged twice by the Huguenots in 1567 and 1621. Between 1877 and 1882, the architect Henri Révoil remodelled the interior of the neoclassical cathedral in the Romanesque-Byzantine style.

Saint-Sacerdos Cathedral in Sarlat is the co-cathedral of the diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat. The church was originally built as part of the abbey of Sarlat (founded in the 9th century). The diocese of Sarlat was created in 1317, along with several other Catholic dioceses in the Aquitaine region, following the victory of the French royal forces over the Albigensian Cathar armies. Pope John XXII, former archpriest of Sarlat and bishop of Fréjus and Avignon, appointed the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Sacerdos as the new bishop of the town. The former Romanesque abbey church thus became the cathedral of the diocese. In 1504, it was decided to build a new cathedral, which was not completed until the 1680s.

Saint Stephen's Greek Cathedral is the cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Church of Paris and the seat of the Greek Orthodox metropolis of France. It was built under the direction of the architect Emile Vaudremer. The interior walls of the church were decorated by Charles Lameire and the marble iconostasis by Ludwig Thiersch. Vaudremer commissioned Léon Avenet to create the stained glass windows. On 9 October 1962, the marriage of Édith Piaf and Théo Sarapo was celebrated in the cathedral and on 20 September 1977, the funeral of Maria Callas took place in the cathedral.

An edifice built and completed in the 13th century, it follows the first buildings installed in older periods. The cathedral was enlarged several times.