Amelia Cathedral

The present Orte Cathedral, opened for worship in 1721, was built to replace the previous medieval basilica, whose three-nave plan it retains. The stucco decoration is rococo, rather sober and elegant. The floor, originally made of terracotta, was replaced in the second half of the twentieth century by white Carrara marble.

Local tradition tells us that the first cathedral of Terni, corresponding to the crypt, was built on the remains of a pagan Roman temple by the holy bishop Anastasius of Terni in the 6th century. In the 9th century, renovation work was carried out on the crypt and the cathedral, which was resumed in the 12th century. Little remains of the Romanesque cathedral today, due to the modernisation work carried out in the 16th and 17th centuries according to the tastes of the time.

Todi Cathedral was built in the 13th century on the site of a Roman building. It was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1190 and was completed in the 14th century and remodelled several times. The façade dates from the 13th century but has undergone several modifications, the last in the 16th century. The remarkable central rose window was started in 1515 and was completed under Bishop Billioti between 1517 and 1523. Its stained glass windows are not original and date from the 19th-century restoration work.