Hvar Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Stephen in Hvar is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Hvar, on island of Hvar in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The most stunning building in Hvar is absolutely the Cathedral of St. Stephen, standing at the eastern aspect of the metropolis rectangular, at the some distance end of the Pjaca, where elements of the city meet.

It become constructed at the web site of an early 6^th century Christian church and a later Benedictine convent of St Mary. The shrine of trendy cathedral is the remains of a Gothic church from the 14th century. Its 15th century pulpit, the stone polyptychs of St. Luke and The Flagellation of Christ, in addition to the past due Gothic crucifix, have all been preserved. St. Stephen's is a instead unremarkable triple-aisled church with a nice 17th-century bell tower and is a harmonious synthesis of the Renaissance, manneristic and early Baroque styles so regular of the Dalmatian structure of the fifteenth and 16th centuries.