Duomo di San Lorenzo, Cathedral in Scala, Italy

The Duomo di San Lorenzo stands on Scala's main square, above the Dragone valley. Three flights of stairs lead to the churchyard, where two columns flank the central portal. The facade has a taller central section and two sloping sides, decorated with white and straw-colored stucco checkerboard panels. The central Romanesque portal is carved with vine tendrils and griffins.

The church was probably built in 987, when the diocese of Scala was erected, and served as its cathedral until the diocese was suppressed in 1818. It is first documented in 1169. In the 13th century apses and a new crypt were added and the church took on Gothic forms; the bell tower was begun in 1673 and the coffered ceiling of the nave dates from 1747.

The church keeps the name of Scala's former diocese, founded in 987 and suppressed in 1818. In the right aisle, a silver chalice of Neapolitan workmanship dates to the 14th century, and a mitre was donated by Charles I of Anjou on Saint Lawrence's day 1270 to mark his victory over the Saracens.

Three flights of stairs lead up to the churchyard from Scala's main square, with two columns at the top of the central ramp framing the main portal. The Purgatory crypt, found in 1958, sits at an intermediate level between the transept and the Crucifix crypt, reached through a doorway in the right nave. The Paradise crypt, the only Gothic example on the Amalfi Coast, has two naves under pointed cross vaults about ten metres high.

The church houses a rare silver chalice from the 14th century, among the oldest religious artifacts on the Amalfi Coast. This piece of Neapolitan craftsmanship serves as a notable example of medieval religious metalwork.