Mondovi Cathedral

Mondovi Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Mondovi, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, northern Italy, devoted to Saint Donatus of Arezzo. It is the seat of the bishops of Mondovi. Several homes had been used over the centuries for the cathedral of the diocese. The first become the pieve of San Donato, which changed into replaced at the start of the 16th century by a brand new Renaissance church, which become demolished with the aid of order of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, in 1574.

The church of San Francesco become then d the cathedral, to get replaced in its turn by way of the existing one, which turned into constructed among 1743 and 1753 to designs by means of the architect Francesco Gallo, and consecrated ten years later by way of Bishop Michele Casati. The cathedral is well-supplied with works of art, a lot of them from its predecessor homes.

Among them are the altar of the Renaissance church, now saved within the bankruptcy room; an historical bust of Pope Pius V donated with the aid of Pope Pius XI in 1872; and various paintings of the 17^th and 18^th centuries with the aid of Piedmontese and Lombard artists. The painted decorations and the stucco work were carried out within the mid-19^th century.