Ripatransone Cathedral

The cathedral of Montalto delle Marche was founded by Pope Sixtus V in 1586 and the existing church of Santa Maria ad collem was transformed into a temporary cathedral. The construction of a new, larger cathedral began on 30 May 1589 with the laying of the foundation stone: the architect of the initial plans was Girolamo Rainaldi. By the death of Pope Sixtus (1590), the crypt was almost finished, but there was still much to be done and the work took at least another century. At the end of the 17th century, the cathedral was made usable and services could begin in the new cathedral, although not yet completed.

Fermo Cathedral was built in the 13th century on a former Christian basilica dating from the 6th century, which was destroyed in 1176 by Christian Mainz on the orders of Emperor Barbarossa. Around 1781, Archbishop Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci had the rest of the church demolished and had it rebuilt in a neoclassical style, designed by Cosimo Morelli with modifications by L. Paglialunga, over a period of about eight years.

The Cathedral of Ascoli Piceno is the result of numerous adaptations and superimpositions between the 5th and 16th centuries. The remains discovered during the restoration of the crypt in 1967 show that the first temple was built as early as the 4th or 5th century on a pre-existing Roman building. The façade was built between 1529 and 1539 according to a project by the Cola dell'Amatrice. At the end of the Second World War, Bishop Ambrogio Squintani had the walls of the crypt decorated with mosaics on cartoons by Pietro Gaudenzi (1880-1955), representing episodes of the last war.