Romanesque-Apulian cathedral begun in 1099, the Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino or Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, at Trani on the Adriatic coast in Puglia (Apulia), Italy. The cathedral’s tall campanile dates from the 1200s. The octagonal belfry and spire date from 1353 - 1365.
Trani, Province of Barletta, Puglia (Apulia), Italy: Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino, located next to the sea. This imposing Romanesque-Apulian cathedral was begun in1099, on the site of an earlier church, and dedicated to saint Peregrinus (Nicola Pellegrino), a young Greek pilgrim who died at Trani. Its facade, reached by a flight of steps, has a richly sculptured portal with late 1100s bronze doors by Barisano da Trani. The iconographic and decorative schemes of the stone reliefs reflect Byzantine, Saracenic and Romanesque models. To either side of the doors, blind arcades with cylindrical shafts and finely carved capitals traverse the facade. The upper storey has a broad smooth surface of warm stone pierced by a rose window and several smaller windows, all with carved surrounds. The tall 1200s campanile stands on an archway. The octagonal belfry and spire date from 1353 - 1365. The crypt has a vaulted ceiling carried on 28 marble columns with intricately carved capitals. Below the cathedral and entered via an archway under the cathedral’s porch is the church of Santa Maria della Scala, divided into three aisles by Roman columns, where there are some 1300s and 1400s frescoes. Trani, a town with a small harbour and important centre of the wine trade, is located on the Adriatic coast in south east Italy. It was founded by the Romans and later dominated by the Byzantine Empire and Lombards. It flourished under the Normans and Swabian (Hohenstaufen) kings of Sicily as a result of trade with the Middle East. The medieval part of the town includes the castle, built 1233 - 1249 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the 1100s Ognissanti Church of the Knights Templar, and the cathedral.
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