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between two mullioned windows, each of two lights, from this earlier structure. In the 9th century a major reconstruction took place which turned the earlier structure into the crypt of a new cathedral; a further re-building took place in the 12th century. Little now remains of this
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The present cathedral is the result of a long series of rebuildings and repairs over the centuries. The first cathedral of Terni was built, according to local tradition, over a pagan temple by the first bishop of Terni,
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The west front presents a wide portico with a double colonnade; three doors open from the portico in Romanesque style, decorated with friezes. The upper part of the frontage is modern, containing a balustrade in
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cathedral, because of modernisation works in the taste of the day which were carried out in the 16th and 17th centuries, which included the raising of the height of the central nave, the refacing of the
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in the 17th century. As regards the side tower, its position was much discussed in 1500; the conclusion reached was to place it to the left of the apse, where it was rebuilt in 1743.
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and of the side chapels, and above all the integration of the church and the piazza on which it stands according to
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of the west wall depicting the patron saints of the city with angels (17th century);
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groundplan, has a central nave between two side aisles, divided by
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carvings (other carvings of the same sort are preserved in the
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18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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with the sculpted heraldic symbol of the town (1585);
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Italian
Roman Catholic
cathedral
Terni
Umbria
Italy
bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Saint Peregrine
Saint Anastasius
Marcello Piacentini
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rose window
Romanesque
tribune
campanile
baptistry
Baroque
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
travertine
Saint Valentine of Terni
Latin cross
piers
Blessed Sacrament

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