Duomo (San Settimio Cathedral)

The Cathedral is dedicated to San Settimio (St. Septimius), the first bishop of Jesi and the town’s patron saint.
The first cathedral was erected on the same site as where there had, in all likelihood, stood a pagan temple from the Roman era.

In the first half of the 13th century a new edifice was built in the Romanesque-Gothic style. From this building there remain the two impressive stone lions carved from red Verona marble which supported the columns in the prothyrum; now, the lions hold holy water basins. The present-day cathedral was entirely rebuilt in the 18th century,
but the new façade was only completed a century later. The interior has a single nave and no aisles, with a large hemispherical cupola, following the neoclassical taste at that time.
Several side chapels, opened in the 1700s by request of noble families in Jesi, contain remarkable paintings worthy of note.
In the presbytery, a Roman-era marble cippus, later transformed into a Christian altar in 1082, is carved with the symbols of the four Evangelists.
Not to be missed is the 15th-c. baptismal font; the famous Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was baptized here on 4th January 1710.

USEFUL INFORMATION

Opening hours:
From Monday to Saturday 7am-7:30pm
Sunday 8:30am-7:30pm

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Piazza Federico II