Duomo di Arezzo
Duomo di Arezzo – The Duomo di Arezzo, officially the Cattedrale dei Santi Pietro e Donato (Cathedral of Saints Peter and Donatus), is the main church of Arezzo, Tuscany, located at the highest point of the city. Construction began in 1278 on the site of an earlier Romanesque cathedral, continuing through the 16th century, resulting in a Gothic structure with later Renaissance and Neo-Gothic additions. The cathedral’s facade was completed only in the early 20th century in Neo-Gothic style. The interior houses remarkable works of art including stained glass windows by Guillaume de Marcillat (considered among the finest Renaissance stained glass in Italy), frescoes by Piero della Francesca, and the beautiful Tarlati Monument. The cathedral is particularly renowned for Piero della Francesca’s fresco of Mary Magdalene, Guillaume de Marcillat’s spectacular cycle of stained glass windows depicting biblical scenes, and the elaborate Gothic tomb monument of Bishop Guido Tarlati by Agostino di Giovanni and Agnolo di Ventura. The cathedral serves as the seat of the Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro.
