NORMAN CATHEDRAL of GERACE

Dear reader, let's go in a medieval casket rich in palaces, historic places, churches and landscapes, GERACE. 

Founded by the Byzantines in the VIII century a.C.

Gerace on its cliff


The great norman cathedral of Gerace built in 1062, the largest medieval religious building in of all Calabria, in romanesque architecture with three naves and wooden trussed roof.
Remember that Built on a Byzantine place of worship (VIII century a.C.).

facade
(ph exploregerace)

great apse

(ph Saverio Corigliano)

ancient column

NOTE: The columns (smooth o fluted) and capitals of the naves come from ancient roman buildings.

altar, choir and presbytery
(ph  by turismo.reggiocal.it)

Calabrian Heritage


Dott. Giuseppe Lombardo

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