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Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Tuscania

The church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Tuscania is a beautiful example of Romanesque architecture in Italy. It was also the first cathedral in Tuscania and the only one to have an immersion baptismal font with a basin which is still well preserved today. The building is flanked by a massive bell tower which had the dual function of recalling the faithful and sighting and defense. Tuff, a local stone of volcanic origin, is the dominant construction element while the main portal is in white marble. The interior is almost bare and austere, but the gaze is captured by the apse where the grandiose Last Judgment of the fourteenth century is painted) by Gregorio and Donato d'Arezzo. The iconography is the classic one: on one side the elect, on the other the damned, in the center, above all, the image of Christ the Judge, but the figure that most of all attracts the visitor's curiosity is the devil called by tradition local Cacànime.

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SP2
01017 Tuscania

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