<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Italy.svg" class="image" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/22px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/33px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/44px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000"></a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Italia" title="Italia"><span title="country in Southern Europe">Italy</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscany" class="extiw" title="w:Tuscany">Tuscany</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massa" class="extiw" title="w:Massa">Massa</a>, St. Francis Cathedral. The church was built on a previous franciscan cloister and was sacred in 1389. It was elevated to Cathedral in the early 1800s when by the will of Elisa Baciocchi, Napoleon’ sister then Governor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Lucca" class="extiw" title="w:Republic of Lucca">Republic of Lucca</a>, the previous cathedral was demolished in order to enlarge “<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Aranci" class="extiw" title="it:Piazza Aranci">Piazza Aranci</a>”. The façade was rebuilt in 1936 on plan of Cesario Fellini. The interior has a nave with two Chaples on the right side: the Ducal Chapel dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament and the Stigmas Chapel. Beside the main altar are the left altar with a wooden Crucifix work of the 16th century and the right altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, the marble altars are by Bergamini.
Piergiuliano Chesi
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>