La Spezia Cathedral
La Spezia, IT
The Cathedral of La Spezia is a modernist church completed in 1975. In 1930 a competition was launched by Bishop Giovanni Costantini, in which 117 architects participated. The winning project was the one presented by the architect Brenno Del Giudice with the painter Guido Cadorin, but the work was postponed for more than twenty-five years, until the mid-fifties. The new project, in 1956, was entrusted to the rationalist architect Adalberto Libera. When Libera died in 1963, the building was not yet finished and the project was entrusted to the architect Cesare Galeazzi from La Spezia, who took it over with some modifications and completed it in 1975.