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The sacred architecture

The Cattedrale of San Florido too is a faithful document of the Renaissance vocation of Città di Castello, fruit of the overhauled pre-existing church of the XI century. Inside possesses an unique aisle, and remembers many other Florentine buildings of the same epoch. Located in the places adjacent to the Cathedral, in Piazza Gabbiotti, the Cathedral Museum offers a vast and precious range of objects of the Christian liturgy of every epoch. Particularly important is beauty of the silver Pastoral of the XIV century, than a Paliotto, always in silver but of the century XII, the Treasure of Canoscio, which is a collection of 25 Palaeo-Christian objects of the V-VI century and some famous paintings of the Pinturicchio, Rosso Fiorentino and Giulio Romano.

The San Domenico Church introduces itself as a monumental Gothic colossus, whose construction was already finished in 1424. The inside, a single aisle, is decorated from several fifteenth-century frescos. Up to 1693 it was possible to admire the "Crucifix Mond", work of the 1503 of Rafael, today in show to the National Gallery of London.

Other testimony of the work of the family Vitelli in the enrichment of the architectural city tissue is the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, realised in late-Gothic style, but always veined of Renaissance motives, wanted by Niccolò Vitelli after the victory on the rival family of the Giustini.