Verona - Cathedral

From Sant'Anastasia in Verona it is a short distance northwest to the cathedral, a 12th century Romanesque basilica with a 15th century Gothic nave. Adjoining it is a campanile on a Romanesque base, designed by Sammichele but not completed until 1927. On the beautiful main doorway of the cathedral are figures of Charlemagne's two paladins Roland and Oliver (c. 1139-53). Within the church, on the first altar on the left, is an "Assumption" by Titian (1525), at the end of the south aisle the Gothic tomb of St Agatha (1353). Note also the red marble pillars and marble choir-screen. To the left of the cathedral is a Romanesque cloister (1123), with an Early Christian mosaic pavement on a lower level.