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In Parma we visited the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta

Parma Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Parma ; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is the cathedral of the diocese of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is an important Italian Romanesque cathedral whose dome, in particular, is decorated with a fresco by Correggio.
The ensemble is made up of three structures, the cathedral,
the campanile and the baptistery.
It is located in Piazza del Duomo, where, on the southern part of the square, the former bishop’s palace.
The cathedral is a fine example of the Lombard Romanesque style in Emilia-Romagna.
Parma Cathedral, whose official name is Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, consecrated in 1106, is the most important Catholic place of worship in Parma, the mother church of the diocese of the same name.

It stands in Piazza Duomo, next to the Baptistery and the Episcopal Palace.
Of the original building, there probably remains part of the presbytery, the transept, the choir, the apses and some fragments of sculpture. The broad facade was completed in 1178 :
it has three floors, a loggia and three portals, the doors of which were sculpted by Luchino Bianchino in 1494.
Between the central door and the one on the right is the tomb of the mathematician Biagio Pelacani, who died in 1416.
The Gothic belfry was added between 1284 and 1294.

The construction of Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta began in 1059 at the initiative of Bishop Cadalo, who would later be antipope under the name of Honorius II and was consecrated by Paschal II in 1106.
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