Anagni Cathedral

Anagni Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Anagni, Lazio, Italy, first rate as the summer season house of the Popes for centuries. It is devoted to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The cathedral is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Anagni-Alatri. The church was built in a Romanesque-style at some stage in 1072-1104 patronized by the Byzantine emperor Michele VII Ducas.

The indoors is in a Gothic-Lombard fashion after the refurbishment in 1250. The interior pavement become set in cosmatesque mosaic. The indoors lunette over the main portal depicts the Madonna and toddler among Saints Magno and Secondina. The ciborium on the main altar was finished by using Vassalletto in 1267. The frescoes of the apostles on the apse partitions had been painted inside the seventeenth century by Borgogna.

While the frescoes within the 1/2-dome apve with became completed inside the 19th century by Giovanni and Pietro Gagliardi. A stairwell on the left side of the church descends to the crypt, additionally called the Oratory of Thomas Becket, canonized inside the metropolis of Segni 3 years after his homicide in 1170. The partitions are blanketed with frescoes courting from 1231 to 1255 depicting biblical scenes, many severely broken.