Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta Siena

ORARI DI APERTURA E VISITA:
From 01/11 to 28/02: 7.30 - 18.30 and From 01/03 to 31/05: 7:30 to 19:30
From 01/06 to 31/08: 7.30 - 20.00 and From 01/09 to 31/10: 7:30 to 19:30
Celebr. Sunday and Fest.: 8.00, 11.00; 12.15, 18.00(summer 19.00) Confessions Half an hour before each Mass

In the place where there is the cathedral, have been carried out excavations have brought to light a period of precedentecostruzione Lombards and Franks. In the twelfth century this church was incorporated in the construction of the Romanesque cathedral with its facade facing south towards the current "Facciatone" the unfinished "cathedral again." It seems that the cathedral was consecrated November 18, 1179. In fact, only in the thirteenth century, the church was converted into a basilica, with the new facade facing the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. The work done terminrono only at the end of the next century and the dome was completed in 1263. The administration of the work was managed by the local canonical, but from 1258 to the beginning of the fourteenth century, was entrusted to the monks of the abbey of San Galgano for their skill as an administrator. Monks were to call Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni. While John devoted himself to the front, using the bottom coverings marble from the quarries of Vallerano, the father carved the pulpit, ending it in 1268. In 1313 the tower was finished, about 77 meters high. With Siena at the height of its splendor, it must have seemed that the cathedral was still too small for the city, it was decided then to extend it in such a way that the current nave became only the transept and the façade were it to be oriented to the south. The project was entrusted to Peter Lando with the resolution of the Board of Bell August 23, 1339. Because of the plague of 1348 and some structural collapse in June of 1357 he decided to stop work. After a few years, the work was resumed, and in 1376, the construction of the upper part of the facade was entrusted to Giovanni di Cecco. Then, in 1382, were raised the vaults of the central nave leading to the completion of the cathedral.

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