Comacchio Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Comacchio; Cattedrale di San Cassiano), also the Basilica of San Cassiano, is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

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cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...

and

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dedicated to Saint

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(''San Cassiano'') in the city of

Comacchio Comacchio (; egl, label= Comacchiese, Cmâc' ) is a town and ''comune'' of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, from the provincial capital Ferrara. It was founded about two thousand years ago; across its history it was first gover ...

, in the

province of Ferrara The province of Ferrara ( it, provincia di Ferrara; egl, pruvîncia ad Fràra) is a province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Ferrara. As of 2016, it has a population of 354,238 inhabitants over an area ...

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, Italy. Formerly the seat of the bishops of Comacchio, it has been since 1986 a co-cathedral in the

Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio ( la, Archidioecesis Ferrariensis-Comaclensis) has existed since 1986, when the diocese of Comacchio was combined with the historical archdiocese of Ferrara. It is a suffragan of the archdioces ...

History

Dedicated to the patron of the town, this church stands on the site of the ancient Romanesque cathedral built in 708 and torn down in 1694. Construction of the new cathedral began in 1659 under the

Bishop of Comacchio The Diocese of Comacchio (Latin: Dioecesis Comaclensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the coastal town of Comacchio in the province of Ferrara and region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. In 1986, the diocese of Commachio was united with the dioc ...

, Sigismondo Isei, with consecration finally in 1740. In 1961 the church was made a

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...

Description

The brick facade with some Istrian stone is plain. The interior has twelve chapels, and the interior houses 18th-century canvases by Biagio Bovi, a wooden crucifix by the 17th-century sculptor Germano Cignani, and a 15th-century sculpture of Santa Lucia. The apse houses the 18th-century marble altar and the 16th-century wooden statue of the Martyr Cassiano, patron of the town and diocese. Above the entry portal is the organ, built in 1728 in Modena by Giovanni Domenico Traeri. The bell-tower was built first in 1751 by Giorgio Fossati but this collapsed in 1757. Reconstruction of a lower tower was completed by 1868.Comune of Comacchio
, entry on churches.

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