Spoleto Cathedral

The church of St. Euphemia was first mentioned as a monastic church by a written source from the 10th century. From 1500 onwards, the church underwent harmful renovations: its upper floor was annexed to the episcopal palace, the façade was plastered and the small bell tower was demolished. It remained as it was until 1907, when the structure was completely restored and completed in 1954.

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.

The Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia was built between 1937 and 1947 because the growing number of pilgrims visiting the shrine where the remains of Saint Rita are located made the old church unsuitable for such numbers. The construction costs of the initial project, drawn up by the architect Armando Brasini, were too high. The project had to be modified by the architects Giuseppe Calori and Giuseppe Martinenghi.