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NICOSIA – S.NICOLO’S CATHEDRAL

S.Nicolo’s cathedral is the higher artistic evidence in Nicosia. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1340 upon the little S.Nicolo’s chapel and it suffered deep exterior adjustments at the end of 1500, on the contrary at the beginning of the nineteenth century it was the inside to be interested by large changes. The outside preserves the magnificient portal of the originary gothic-norman structure, the smart portico and the haughty bell-tower forty metres high that grows upon three floors realized in different ages. The first floor of the bell-tower is characterized by some big Moresque ogival archs peraphs from an originary Arabian tower , the second floor, built among the 1393 and the 1455 offers some rich mullioned and three- mullioned windows, polished carved and inlaid rose-windows, plinths, bearings and arabesques, at the end the third floor that ended with a cusp of the seventeenth century covered by polycromes majolica recently removed. The inside of the Cathedral is really a Museum containing some works of valuable workmanship as the font of Antonello Gagini and of his apprentice Maniero and Vanello; S.John the Baptist and S.Bartolomeo by Giovanni Battista Li Volsi; the funeral monument of Alessandro Testa, by Ignazio Marabutti; S.Nicolo’s statue, placed upon the homonymous altar, made by the sculptor Filippo Quattrocchi . The presbytery is dominated by a majestic walnut choir sculptured by the Nicosians John Battista and Stefano Li Volsi in 1622.

 

 

 

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