Carpi Cathedral
Wet front of the cathedral
Carpi Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Carpi; Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Carpi. It stands on the site of a mediaeval pieve dedicated to Mary; construction on the present building began in 1514, predating the establishment of the diocese here in 1779 by over 250 years.
It was granted the status of a minor basilica in 1979, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the establishment of the diocese.[1]
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Coordinates: 44°47′06″N 10°53′11″E / 44.78496°N 10.88626°E
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