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COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
COSENZA I ZUMBINI
WORK COORDINATED
BY PROFESSOR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE
MARTIRE ANTONELLA
STUDENT
PANEBIANCO RAFFAELE
CLASS 3C
Piazza Duomo 1 – tel. 0984.77864
http://www.cattedraledicosenza.it/
Free admission;
Opening L/M/M/G/V/S/D;
Winter Time: 8.00 – 12.00 / 15.30 – 19.00
summer hours: 8.00 – 12.00 / 16.30 – 20.00
CATHEDRAL
OF
COSENZA
The Cathedral of Cosenza is among
the most known and particular sacred
buildings in southern Italy. Since October 12, 2011 it has become an
Unesco "Heritage Witness to a Culture of Peace". The building is located in Piazza Duomo, the old Piazza
Grande, which once was the hub of
nineteenth century Cosenza, and witness to all sorts of prominent events
that characterized the life of the city.
Its origins are unknown, but according to architectural studies it can be
considered a work of the mideleventh century.
On June 9, 1184 a disastrous earthquake shook Cosenza and its province, causing the collapse of the
church under whose
rubble the
Archbishop
Ruffo and
the people of the faith perished.
The reconstruction was slow and in
1222, in the presence of Emperor
Frederick II, the cathedral was solemnly consecrated; on that occasion, according to the
tradition, the king gave
a precious cross reliquary known as Stauroteca to the Cosentina
church.
Throughout its long history the sacred
temple underwent numerous alterations; it wasn’t until the end of the
nineteenth century that the Cathedral
had a rebirth, when the structures of the
primitive church and all other original
design were brought to light.
Also to be observed, a wooden
crucifix of '400
showing an evident
late Gothic style.
The facade is divided into three parts
corresponding to the internal division
of three naves, and is dominated by an
ancient rose window (initially polilobato) with two smaller rose windows
above the doors.
In the transept, there is a sculpture that
is in art history books
as one of the first examples of French Gothic in Italy: the tomb of
Isabella of Aragon,
wife of Philip the Bold,
King of France. All
traces of the work by
the French artist were
lost because it was covered by walls during the eighteenth century restoration of the church. It was
discovered by chance in 1891 while
work was being carried out near the left
wall of the transept.
.
The whole Gothic Cistercian style is
also evident in the
Florense Abbey in
San Giovanni in
Fiore.
Inside, the chapel of
Our Lady of Pilerio
contains the wooden
panel painting of Our
Lady of Pilerio.
In the pillars in front of the sarcophagus are remains of fourteenth century frescoes depicting the Annunciation and the Angel of the Annunciation.