Agrigento - Cathedral 
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The Cathedral in Agrigento was built in the 11th century by the Normans on the highest point of the site of the ancient Acropolis, as a successor to the Temple of Zeus Atabyrios. This name is derived from Atabyros, the highest mountain on the island of Rhodes, and it reflects the Rhodian origin of the first colonists of Akrágas. In the 13th and 14th centuries the cathedral was extended and in the 17th century it was altered in the Baroque style.
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The silver shrine of the canonized Bishop Gerlando, which dates from 1639, is to be found in a Gothic chapel in the right-hand side aisle. To the west of the cathedral stands the bishop's seminary, a 14th century palace which was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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