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The Cathedral of Barga The Cathedral, entitled to Saint Cristofano, was built in several steps and it was modified around IX-th century. The facade shows traces of Roman elements belonging to the primitive building and it shows valuable decorations on the brackets bearing the little arches. On both sides of the portal it is possible to admire some columns surmounted by lintels decorated with bass-relieves and bearing two statues portraying two lions. On the left side of the Cathedral rises the bell tower. The interior is on a basilical plant with three aisles bore by three pillars. In the middle aisle it is placed a twelfth-century pulpit made of a rectangular structure bore by four columns. In the apse it is possible to admire a fine wood-made polychrome statue built in XII century and portraying Saint Cristoforo. On the right side of the main altar opens the Cappella del Santissimo Sacramento (Chapel of the Holiest Sacrament), whose inside there is a painting portraying "Our Lady between the Saint Sebastiano and Rocco", placed between a tabernacle and another painting portraying the "Adoration of the Child". Another chapel is placed on the left side of the presbytery and it saves a sixteenth-century plate portraying Saint Joseph and a painting portraying "Our Lady of the Mill".
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