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The interior of Verona Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta since 1187, is divided into three naves by sturdy pink columns. These support reddish arches that float, imposing and supple, before flowing into the multi-lobed shapes of the pillars themselves, which are transformed at their base into geometric shapes that characterise the black, red and white marble flooring.
These examples highlight how the interior of the cathedral no longer bears any resemblance to the twelfth-century Romanesque church, having been completely renovated in Gothic style in the last decades of the fifteenth century.
On the side walls, note the two imposing Baroque organs, with the doors painted on both the outside and inside. Looking around, we can admire the frescoes that decorate all the walls of the cathedral. The figures of saints painted in niches and architectural wings were created between the end of the fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century, creating a vividly coloured environment rich in votive spaces of great value. At the centre of the nave and outside the apse area is the high altar, around which the bishop and priests sit: this is a modernisation carried out at the end of the twentieth century.
