Atri Cathedral

Atri Cathedral is a Romanesque Roman Catholic cathedral committed to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the metropolis of Atri, Province of Teramo, place of Abruzzo, Italy. It was previously, from 1251, the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Atri and has been considering 1986 a co-cathedral of the Diocese of Teramo-Atri. It became d a minor basilica in 1964. The gift church, consecrated in 1223, turned into built over an earlier one. Further reconstructions happened in the course of the subsequent centuries. The sober Istrian white stone faeade has a huge portal by using Maestro Rainaldo in Gothic fashion, and a big rose window with a gap with a discern of the Virgin and baby.

The south wall has three portals: that at the left courting from 1305 changed into the only finished by using Rainaldo; the central one dated 1288 with sculptures of lions and emblems of the Angevin dynasty is by using Raimondo di Poggio; and that to the right, dated 1302, is likewise by means of him. The first one is opened every year on August 15^th, the day on which the Assumption of Mary is well known. This privilege became granted to the Atri Cathedral by way of Pope Celestine V, who was born within the Abruzzo area and whose mother was from Atri.