Cesena Cathedral

Cesena Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral committed to Saint John the Baptist in the town of Cesena, Italy. It has been the episcopal seat of the present Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina for the reason that 1986, and turned into formerly that of the Diocese of Cesena. The constructing of the cathedral, to update an older one, changed into accepted by using a papal bull of Pope Urban VI in 1378. The works began in 1385 and had been paid for by means of the generosity of Andrea Malatesta, the lord of the city. The building changed into finished around the year 1405.

The production, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is attributed to the architect Undervaldo. The campanile become constructed among 1443 and 1457 to designs by using the Maso di Pietro and funded by Bishop Antonio Malatesta da Fossombrone. The identical Bishop Malatesta turned into responsible for the building of the Bishop's Palace adjacent the cathedral, which became completed with the aid of his successor Giovanni Venturelli. After the novel rebuilding of the 1960s the only surviving authentic a part of the structure is what stays of the door on the eastern facet.