Avellino Cathedral

Avellino Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Modestinus in Avellino, Campania, Italy. It is the seat of the bishops of Avellino. The Romanesque cathedral became constructed between 1132 and 1166 by using bishop Roberto of Avellino, who committed it to Saint Modestinus. It saved its original appearance till the give up of the 17^th century, when a series of refurbishments and renovations began which, continuing into the 18th century, sooner or later transformed the constructing into a Baroque one. Bishop Francesco Gallo gave the cathedral a similarly overhaul, creating its gift Neoclassical look.

The refacing of the west the front become entrusted to the architect Pasquale Cardola and was finished between 1857 and 1868, even as the conversion of the interior turned into the paintings of the architect Vincenzo Varriale between 1880 and 1889. The new constructing turned into subjected to the bombing of World War II and the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, each of which made necessary in addition enormous stabilisation and reinforcement of the shape.