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Cathedral · Avellino (AV)

Avellino Cathedral (Santa Maria Assunta)

  • Visit: about 40 min
  • 347 m
Avellino Cathedral (Santa Maria Assunta)
Photo: Daniel Jünger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

Avellino's Duomo, of medieval origin, with its crypt and 19th-century façade.

Avellino Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta and to Saint Modestinus, the city's patron saint. It was built in the 12th century in the oldest part of Avellino, on the hill known as the Terra.Over the centuries it was rebuilt several times: today it has a 19th-century Neoclassical façade and an interior with a nave and two aisles. Beneath the church lies the crypt, the oldest part of the building.

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