Cattedrale di S. Stefano, Italy
VIII century A.D.

Built in the eleventh century A.C. on a former construction of the eighth century, it has been restored in the years 1926-29. The central portal is placed side by side by two Byzantine feature high-reliefs of the tweltiefth century, representing San Guglielmo of Tolosa and Sant’Agatonigo. Inside, in front of the central entrance, above a Corinthian capital, it is located a Byzantine marble pier. In the apse there is the gold altar piece, a work in silver gold plated with Byzantine plates of the XII and XIII century. In front of the cathedral stands the cylindrical belfry that reveals evident Byzantine and Romanic influences. Behind the cathedral, the ancient area of the saltpans, that nowadays are buried and close by the ditch, on the top of which there is the sanctuary of Our Lady with Angel, where is worship a wooden image of the Virgin and Child, that a legend tales that it is arrived in a miraculously from the Byzantine lands.

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