Amelia Cathedral, Baroque cathedral in Amelia, Italy

Amelia Cathedral is a Baroque structure featuring a Latin cross layout with a single nave and refined stucco decorations throughout its interior spaces. The pink terracotta facade was completed in the 19th century and remains the defining visual feature of the building.

The first cathedral was built in 872. It was destroyed by the troops of Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century and rebuilt in Gothic style. A fire in 1629 destroyed almost the entire building, which was then rebuilt in Baroque forms. The present pink cotto facade was completed in the 19th century, after the destructive earthquake of 1822. Since 1986 the church has been a co-cathedral of the Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia.

The second chapel on the right belongs to the Farrattini family: behind its altar hangs Federico Zuccari's early panel of the Madonna and Child with Saints, painted around 1563 and returned here in 1990 after the Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni bought it back. Flanking it are the tombs of Baldo Farrattini by Ippolito Scalza and of Bartolomeo II by Giovanni Antonio Dosio.

The cathedral stands at the top of the hill of Amelia's historic centre, so the approach is uphill. The pink cotto facade faces the small square; the 11th-century dodecagonal bell tower rises to its left. The interior is a single nave with five chapels on each side, so the Farrattini chapel is the second on the right.

Two Turkish banners captured during the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 hang in a side chapel as reminders of this naval victory. These artifacts connect the cathedral to a pivotal moment in Mediterranean maritime history.