2024

EPISCOPAL COMPLEX

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

It was built in 1500, when the city became an episcopal residence. In the first courtyard there is a theological seminary, built in 1838 in neoclassical style, and a small museum of cult objects and ancient icons. Through a large painted porch, you reach the inner courtyard, where the Episcopal cathedral of the Assumption, built in 1504 and rebuilt in 1649, stands. The Episcopal Palace, built in 1844, faces it. At the entrance to the complex, a vast church was built, destined to become the centre of local religious life.

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