Babban cocin Asti
Babban cocin Asti (cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Gottardo di Asti da harshen Italiya) ya kasance wani wurin zama bishop na Diocese na Asti, katolika ne na Roman Katolika a Asti, Piedmont, Italiya. An keɓe shi ne don Tsammani na Maryamu Mai Albarka da kuma ga Saint Gotthard, kuma a tsayin 82m da 24m a tsayi da faɗi, ɗayan manyan majami'u ne a Piedmont, mafi girman bayanin gine-ginen Gothic na yankin, kuma daga cikin mafi kyawu misalan Lombard Romanesque abin godiya a arewacin Italiya.

Tarihi 
Wataƙila ginin farko na babban cocin ya fara ne a cikin ƙarni na biyar (5) ko na shida, kuma hadisai sun nuna cewa ya maye gurbin jerin gine-ginen da suka gabata ciki har da tsohuwar cocin da aka gina a kan muryar waliyyin da ya yi shahada, Secundus na Asti . Daga cikin sauran waɗannan gine-ginen har yanzu suna bayyane shi ne Cocin St. John, wanda ake amfani da shi yau don baftisma. Wajen 1070, ginin ya ruguje, wani ɓangare sakamakon gobara da Adelaide ta Susa ta saka a rikicin ta da bishop-bishop. A cikin 1095 Katolika da aka sake ginawa Paparoma Urban II ya tsarkake shi don yin wa'azin yaƙi na farko .

An sake gina hasumiyar kararrawa tun daga shekarar 1266 daga magist Murator Jacopo Ghigo wanda ya kunshi hawa bakwai, gami da octagonal spire, kuma ana iya gani a Theatrum Statuum Sabaudiae, wani tome wanda sakamakon wani gagarumin aikin da Duke Charles Emmanuel II ya aiwatar a shekarun 1660 wanda ya kunshi manyan kundin littafi guda biyu da aka kammala kuma aka buga su 1682 a Amsterdam, ta hanyar mai wallafawa da mai daukar hoto Joan Blaeu . Tarin hotuna ne na wurare da gine-gine a ƙarƙashin mamayar Savoy a ƙarshen karni na goma sha bakwai wanda a lokacin ya haɗa da Savoie, Nice, Piedmont, kwarin Aosta, da Liguria.

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 Cocin Katolika a Italiya

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