Catania Cathedral
The Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Catania is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Catania , a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church belonging to the ecclesiastical region of Sicily . The cathedral is located on the east side of the Piazza Duomo and is dedicated to St. Agatha , the patron saint of Catania.
history
The original church was built in the late 11th century over the Roman " Thermen des Achilles". Ansgerius , the founding bishop of the Latin diocese of Catania , was appointed abbot in 1091 and made bishop in 1092. It had the shape of a fortified church with a nave and four corner towers. The church was partially destroyed and rebuilt several times by earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Etna . The current building is the work of the architect Girolamo Palazzotto , who rebuilt the cathedral, which was destroyed by the earthquake of 1693, from 1709, incorporating the eastern part of the Norman basilica (transept, apses) that had been preserved in the Baroque style.
The outer
The church building is a longitudinal building with a transept and a triple apse. During restoration work in the middle of the 20th century, the apses were stripped of their Baroque decorations and thus show the original construction of the Norman building. The baroque west facade of the cathedral was designed by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini .
The inner
The interior of the church is divided into three naves by pillars. The main altar is in the middle apse, the sacrament chapel is in the left side apse and the chapel of St. Agatha is in the right side apse. Here the relics of St. Agatha are kept in a silver shrine adorned with jewels . At the south end of the transept is the Chapel of Our Lady with sarcophagi from members of the Aragonese royal family, etc. a. of the kings Friedrich II. and Friedrich III. The cathedral also houses the tombs of the composer Vincenzo Bellini and Cardinal Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet . In the side aisles there are inlaid altars from the mid-18th century.
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The organ on the west gallery goes back to an instrument that was built in 1877 by the French organ builder Nicolas Théodore Jaquot. The organ initially stood in the apse and was installed in a new case on the newly built gallery in 1926 and expanded in the process by the organ builders Laudani e Giudici. From 2012 to 2014 the organ was restored by the organ building company Mascioni . The pipe material for the Jaquot organ is in the central organ case; the pipe material of the organ builder Laudani e Giudici from 1926 was in the flanking cases. The instrument has 44 registers (3,030 pipes ) on three manual works and a pedal . The individual works by Jaquot (J) and Laudani e Giudici (LG) are labeled separately. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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literature
- Brigit Carnabuci: Sicily. Greek temples, Roman villas, Norman cathedrals and baroque cities in the center of the Mediterranean (= DuMont art travel guide ). 6th, updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-4385-6 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Basilica Cattedrale on cattedralecatania.it
Coordinates: 37 ° 30 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 15 ° 5 ′ 20.1 ″ E