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The Austre Moland church dates from 1673. It was originally built as a small "long church", but was transformed into a cruciform-shaped church in 1779. The two-part altarpiece, with a richly carved Rococo style wing, was made by Ole Nielsen Wejerholt in 1784.

The Austrheim church is a long church dating from 1865. A church has existed here since the Middle Ages, as attested by sources from 1329. The medieval church was most probably a church in Stave church which was replaced by a church mentioned in 1659. The 17th century church was demolished in 1865 as part of the construction of the modern church.

The Autohofkapelle Schwabhausen (Autohof "service station") is located on the A 4 Eisenach-Dresden motorway, at the Gotha exit on the SVG-Autohof Thüringer Tor Süd in Schwabhausen. Due to the success of the two Autohof chapels in Schlüchtern and Hessisch Lichtenau, the operator of the Autohof, SVG Hessen eG, decided to build a chapel there as well, which opened in autumn 2003. The SVG Autohof chapels have a uniform architectural design; the tent-like construction is about five metres high and rises on an eight-sided base plane with a diameter of about six metres.

The church was consecrated by Pope Innocent II in 1107, while only the apse was built. The portal of the Last Judgment was built around 1130-1140, and in the 15th century, the apse was rebuilt and the central bell tower also, in addition, the side chapels of the nave were built. In 1860, the restoration of Viollet-le-Duc began: rebuilding the towers, reinforcing the piles, and replacing some capitals with copies.

The Auxiliary Church of St Martin is a historic wooden church from the second half of the 15th century.

The church of Avaldsnes is a stone church built in the second half of the 13th century. The mounds and monumental stones in the vicinity of the church date from the Roman Iron Age. The church had been in ruins since the 16th century and does not retain any of the medieval furniture. The first major restoration took place in the 1830s, and the church also received a lot of new furniture. The tower is a free reconstruction of the tower that was demolished in 1834, but it has the same base as the original tower.

The cathedral of Avellino was built between 1132 and 1166. However, thanks to the will of various bishops, and sometimes also because of various damages caused by earthquakes and wars, the structure has undergone numerous restorations and extensions. The Cathedral, which has a Romanesque appearance, kept its original appearance until the end of the 17th century when the first transformations and restorations began. In the second half of the 19th century, Bishop Francesco Gallo (1855-1896) had the cathedral completely rebuilt and enlarged, transforming it into a neoclassical building. The façade was rebuilt by the architect Pasquale Cardola between 1857 and 1868, while the interior was transformed by the architect Vincenzo Varriale, who worked intensively on it from 1880 to 1889.

Aversa Cathedral was built between 1053 and 1090 and is in the Romanesque style, with the notable exception of the façade. The façade is Baroque in style and was built in the early 18th century after earthquakes caused the collapse of much of the building between 1694 and 1702.

The Cathedral of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, also known as the Cathedral of the Marsi, was built between 1930 and 1942. The city of Avezzano has at least four cathedral churches dedicated to Apostle Bartholomew, built over the centuries. All of them had to cope with the earthquakes that devastated the region.

It dates from 1150 and was enlarged in the 14th and 17th centuries by side chapels. As early as 1336, Giacomo Stefaneschi, the Cardinal of St. George, commissioned Simone Martini - the most Gothic of Italian painters, considered the leader of the School of Siena - to paint frescos on the porch of Notre-Dame-des-Doms. Martini, who was Duccio de Buoninsegna's pupil, comes with his wife Giovanna and brother Donat. The frescoes were completed before the death of the commissioner in 1343. Under Benedict XIII, Avignon was under siege. Despite the surveillance to which he was subjected, the Pontiff managed to leave the palace and his town of residence on March 11, 1403, after a trying five-year siege. If Benedict XIII never returned to Avignon again, he had left his nephews, Antonio de Luna as rector of the Comtat Venaissin, and Rodrigo. He and his Catalans settled in the pontifical palace. On Tuesday, January 27, 1405, at Vespers time, the pyramidal bell tower of Notre-Dame des Doms collapsed and crushed the ancient baptistery dedicated to Saint John in its fall. The Catalans were accused of this action and took the opportunity to establish a platform on these ruins to install their artillery.