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The chapel situated in the right-hand transept of the church of St John the Evangelist

Holy water font at the entrance to the Church of St John the Evangelist

The second chapel in the left-hand aisle, containing the statue of the dead Christ, in the church of St John the Evangelist

On the right, an old palace, now the headquarters of the “Post and Telegraph Office”, on Strada Carlo Pisacane

An ancient building at the junction of Strada al Duomo, Strada Cavour and the ancient tower of the Church of San Paolo

Via Cavour and the Church of Santa Lucia

The interior of the single-nave church of Santa Lucia

The façade and portal of the Church of the Madonna della Steccata, an example of Renaissance architecture in Piazza della Steccata

The Town Hall in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, built in 1627 by Gian Battista Magnani

The monument to Antonio Allegri da Correggio, in front of the Town Hall in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi

Junction between Borgo Gian Battista Fornovo (formerly Borgo degli Asini) and Via Massimo D’Azeglio

The Church of the Santissima Annunziata on Via Massimo D’Azeglio, also known as the Basilica del Paradiso, designed by the architect Giovan Battista Fornovo

The entrance to the Church of the Santissima Annunziata on Strada Massimo D’Azeglio

The portico of the Vecchio Hospital building, with the Oratory of Sant Ilario in the centre, on Via Massimo D’Azeglio

The interior of the Oratory of Sant Ilario (1663), a three-nave church featuring frescoes by Giovanni Maria Conti della Camera

The ancient portico of the Ospedale Vecchio on Via Massimo D’Azeglio

The 18th-century entrance to the Vecchio Hospital building, designed by Gian Antonio da Erba

Santa Croce Square and Church, in the Romanesque style, built in the early decades of the 12th century

The interior of the Church of Santa Croce, with three naves, consecrated by Grazia (Bishop) on 21 August 1222

The Via Emilia monument (Carrara marble) in Piazzale Santa Croce, by Pietro Cascella

The monument to the Via Emilia in Piazzale Santa Croce, with the Church of Santa Croce in the background

Ponte di Mezzo, which links the historic centre with the Oltretorrente district

The cathedral dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the 65-metre-high bell tower and the baptistery in Piazza Duomo

Single-lancet windows supported by small columns adorn the loggia of the cathedral’s gabled roof

The cathedral’s bell tower in Piazza Duomo, topped by the ‘Angiol d’or’, a 1.42-metre-high statue made of gilded copper plate

The marble lion at the base of one of the two columns that make up the portico at the entrance to the cathedral in Piazza Duomo

One of the two marble lions, sculpted in 1281 by Giambono da Bissone at the entrance to the cathedral in Piazza Duomo

The three-nave interior of the cathedral dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, redesigned and completed by Benedetto Antelami

The cathedral’s high altar, a marble shrine housing the relics of the martyrs Abdon and Sennen, Nicomedes, Herculaneus and Pudentiana

The Chapel of the Assumption in the upper left transept of the Cathedral and the painting of the Assumption of the Virgin by Giambattista Tinti

The central altar and the chancel of the crypt inside the cathedral

The Chapel of San Bernardo degli Uberti, designed by Prospeto Spani, in the crypt of the Cathedral

The cathedral crypt, the garden of prayer

The cathedral’s crypt, comprising a dense forest of columns made of precious marble, crowned with 11th-century acanthus-leaf capitals

The cathedral pulpit overlooking the central nave, by Paolo Froni

The wooden pulpit in the Cathedral, carved by the cabinetmaker Paolo Froni

The Chapel of San Severo or of the Crucifix in the cathedral dedicated to the Assumption

The apse cylinder of the Cathedral, featuring Romanesque decorations, in Via Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari

The gabled façade of the Franciscan basilica of San Francesco del Prato, built entirely of terracotta bricks

The Church of San Francesco del Prato, situated in the square of the same name, is an example of Franciscan Gothic architecture in Emilia

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