Foggia Cathedral

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Foggia Cathedral (

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The present Romanesque building was constructed as a collegiate church in the 1170s, but was damaged in the earthquake of 1731 and restored in a Baroque style.

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to form the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino in 1986.

The church contains an ancient icon of the Virgin Mary, whence its alternative name of "Santa Maria Icona Vetere". The icon is also sometimes known as the "Madonna dei sette veli", or the Madonna of the Seven Veils.

Sources

• Pace, Valentino, 1994: Kunstdenkmäler in Süditalien – Apulien, Basilicata, Kalabrien. Wiss. Buchges.: Darmstadt
  ISBN 3-534-08443-8
• Willemsen, Carl Arnold, 1973: Apulien – Kathedralen und Kastelle (2nd ed.) DuMont Schauberg: Köln
  ISBN 3-7701-0581-8

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