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Aosta Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di Aosta; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Giovanni Battista; french: Cathédrale d'Aoste; Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption et Saint-Jean-le-Baptiste) is a
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Aosta Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...
, in north-west
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, built in the 4th century. It is the episcopal seat of the
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. In the 11th century the Palaeo-Christian structure was replaced by a new one, dedicated to the
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. The architecture of the cathedral was modified during the 15th and 16th century. The present façade, in Neoclassical style, was built between 1846 and 1848. The structures remaining from the Romanesque period are two clock-towers and the crypt, and also the remaining part of an
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fresco cycle on the church ceiling. Image:Cattedrale Aosta Portale.JPG, The door Image:Church in Aosta, Italy.JPG, The Romanesque clock-towers Image:Aosta Cattedrale Cripta.JPG, The crypt


External links


Aosta Valley official website: Aosta Cathedral

Webdiocesi.chiesacattolica website: article on Aosta Cathedral


* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120605050647/http://www.regione.vda.it/territorio/environment/19962/1996-2_14.ASP Aosta Valley official website: article by L. Appolonia & D. Viquéry on restoration of cathedral façade]
organivalledaosta.altervista.org Private website on cathedral organ


Bibliography

* * Robert Berton, ''La cathedrale d'Aoste'', Aoste : Imprimerie Marguerettaz * Sandra Barberi, ''Cathédrale d'Aoste : les fresques du XIe siècle'', Aoste : Imprimerie valdôtaine, 2006 * Cortelazzo, Mauro – Perinetti, Renato – Papone, Paolo – Vallet, Viviana, ''La cathédrale d'Aoste : du chantier roman à nos jours'', études archéologiques et textes: Mauro Cortelazzo, Paolo Papone, Renato Perinetti, Viviana Vallet, Aoste: Région autonome Vallée d'Aoste. Assessorat de l'éducation et de la culture. Département de la surintendance des activités et des biens culturels, 2008 Cadran solaire *Paolo Curtaz, Omar Borettaz, Ronnie Borbey, ''L'eglise cathédrale d'Aoste : un lieu, une histoire, la foi d'un peuple'', Aosta *Lin Colliard, ''La Cathédrale d'Aoste au XVe siècle : extrait de l'ordinaire d'Aoste'', Aoste : Imprimerie valdôtaine, 1978 *Édouard Aubert, ''Les mosaïques de la Cathédrale d'Aoste'', Paris : Librairie archéologique de Victor Didron, 1857 * Joseph-Auguste Duc, ''Symbolisme architectural de la Cathédrale d'Aoste'', Aoste : Imprimerie catholique, 1901 * Joseph-Auguste Duc, ''Mosaique du chœur de la Cathédrale d'Aoste : son âge'', in ''Société académique, religieuse et scientifique du Duché d'Aoste'' *''La restauration de la façade de la cathédrale d'Aoste'', Aoste : Région autonome Vallée d'Aoste. Assessorat de l'éducation et de la culture. Surintendance aux biens culturels, 1997 *Abbé Joseph-Marie Henry, ''Maîtrise de la Cathédrale d'Aoste'', Aoste : Imprimerie catholique, 1919 *Orphée Zanolli, ''Mélodies inédites à l'usage de la Cathédrale d'Aoste : les Noëls en vieux français'', Aoste : Musumeci, 1977 *Charles Bonnet, Renato Perinetti, ''Remarques sur la crypte de la cathedrale d'Aoste'', Aoste : Musumeci, 1977 * Robert Berton, ''Les stalles de la cathédrale d'Aoste avec leurs miséricordes : un joyau d'art gothique du XVe siècle'', préface d'Adrien Bruhl, Novara : De Agostini, copyr. 1961 *Duc, Joseph-Auguste, ''Le Chapitre de la cathédrale d'Aoste a-t-il été autrefois régulier?'', in ''Société académique, religieuse et scientifique du Duché d'Aoste'' *Zanolli, Orphée ''Les "obitus" et les notes marginales du martyrologe de la Cathédrale d'Aoste (XIIIe siècle)'' * Barberi, S., 2002: '' Cattedrale di Aosta. Gli affreschi dell'XI secolo''. Published on behalf of the Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, printed by Umberto Allemandi Editore, Torino * Brezzi, E. Rossetti, 1989: ''La pittura in Valle d'Aosta tra la fine del 1300 e il primo quarto del 1500''. Firenze: Casa Editrice
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* Garino, Luigi (ed.), n.d.: ''Museo del Tesoro, Cattedrale di Aosta'', catalogue edited by the Aosta Cathedral chapter * Orlandoni, B., 1995: ''Architettura in Valle d'Aosta – Il romanico e il gotico''. Ivrea: Priuli & Verlucca * Orlandoni, B., 1995: ''Architettura in Valle d'Aosta – Il Quattrocento''. Ivrea: Priuli & Verlucca * Aosta Valley autonomous region, 2007: ''La Cattedrale di Aosta; dalla domus ecclesiae al cantiere romanico'' or ''La cathédrale d'Aoste : de la domus ecclesiae au chantier roman'' (text and DVD). Aosta: Cadran Solaire * ditto, 2008 {{Authority control Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy
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