Ajaccio Cathedral

Ajaccio Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio and furthermore known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of Saint Mary is a Roman Catholic church situated in Ajaccio, Corsica. The church is the ministerial seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseille. It is devoted to the Virgin Mary, and is in the Baroque/Mannerist design style. The present church was worked somewhere in the range of 1577 and 1593 and is credited to Italian designer Giacomo della Porta.

It was worked to supplant the previous Cathedral of Saint-Croix, pulverized in 1553 so as to account for improvements in the city's guards, as expressed in the license required by the Council of Ancients in 1559 to the Senate of Genoa and Pope Gregory XIII so as to fabricate another church. The last stone was laid in 1593 by Jules Guistiniani, made religious administrator by Pope Sixtus V. It is the place Napoleon Bonaparte was immersed on 21 July 1771 and he recounted the accompanying on his deathbed in Saint Helena in 1821: "In the event that they restrict my carcass, as they have taboo my body, deny me a little real estate parcel in which to be covered, I wish to be covered with my progenitors in Ajaccio Cathedral in Corsica."