Matelica Cathedral

Matelica Cathedral was first built in the historic heart of the city. It fell into ruin when the bishop's seat disappeared and was demolished in 1530. In the middle of the 15th century, it was replaced by the Church of Santa Maria della Piazza, which later became a cathedral named after Santa Maria Assunta in 1785.

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Fabriano Cathedral

Fabriano Cathedral was first mentioned in documents in 1047, and two centuries later, in 1253, it became the mother church of the town. The building underwent important extensions in the second half of the 14th century: the construction of the apse and the tribune date from this period. At the beginning of the 17th century, under the impulse of the reformist ideas, the church was rebuilt by the architect Muzio Oddi (1607-1617). The precious interior decoration with stuccoes by Francesco Selva from Ticino dates back to this phase. The church did not become a cathedral until 1728. The present bell tower dates back to the 19th century.

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San Severino Cathedral

The Cathedral of San Severino was probably founded in the 13th century for the Augustinians. It preserves the 15th-century facade, a Gothic portal decorated with terracotta remains of frescoes attributed to Lorenzo d'Alessandro. The vast interior was reduced to its present state in 1776 and 1827 when the Augustinian church was transformed into a cathedral.

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Camerino Cathedral

The cathedral of Camerino, designed by Andrea Vici and Clemente Folchi, was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century on the site of the Romano-Gothic cathedral destroyed in the earthquake of 1799. The interior and the sacristies contain precious examples of polychrome wood carvings from the 13th and 15th centuries, as well as interesting paintings by 17th-century Mannerist painters. It is currently unusable, as is almost the entire city centre, due to the damage caused by the 2016 earthquake in central Italy.