The Cathedral of Fiesole

The building of the Cathedral in Fiesole was started during the eleventh century for the will of the bishop Jacopo the Bavaro. Then works continued between 1349 and 1373 with the bishop Andrea Corsini.

During the next centuries the Cathedral was restored many times and in 1878 the architect Michelangelo Mairofi built its facade.

On the left-hand side of the Cathedral it is possible to admire the rectory with an arcaded court.

The interior of the Cathedral has three stone aisles surmounted by capitals.

On the middle portal is the earthenware statue of Saint Romolo modelled by Giovanni della Robbia (1469-1529) in 1521.

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On the second column is a hanging pulpit dating back to 1400, in the nave there is a marble-made white and green frontal and on the right there is a wooden crucifix.

In the left aisle there are Saint Andrew's desk and Francesco Ferrucci's self-portrait by Tadda (1497-1585).

Inside the Cathedral it is also possible to admire a crypt dating back to 1200: it has three aisles on thin stone columns. Inside this crypt it is possible to admire medallions with frescoes, a font by Francesco del Tadda, a little tabernacle and a series of painted lunettes portraying any Saint Romolo's stories.

In the presbitery it opens on the right the Cappella Salutati (Salutati Chapel) painted by Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507), on the left the Cappella dei Canonici (Chapel of Canons) whose inside it is possible to admire the dossal of the marble-made altar by Andrea Ferrucci (1465-1526).

In the eighteenth-century sacristy there are the silvery copper made Saint Romolo's reliquary bust and the mitre based on red velvet and silver leaf by Leonardo Salutati.