Cattedrale dell'Assunta

piazza Duomo - 15011 Acqui Terme (AL)
Tel. +39 (0144) 322.381
https://www.diocesiacqui-piemonte.it/

The Cathedral of the Assumption stands in the historical part of the town and is reached from a picturesque Renaissance-style square of the late 15th century. Consecrated in 1067, numerous building work has modified the original Romanesque layout, which remains visible in the transept, presbytery, external volume of the tiburio and in the lower part of the bell tower. A 17th-century atrium with coupled columns frames the precious marble portal (1481) by Giovanni Antonio Pilacorte; the lunette features a bas-relief dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The interior, with five naves, is notable for the size of the three Lombard-Romanesque-style apses which have been extremely well preserved. Underneath the presbytery and the transept is the large crypt environment. Of interest is the rectory cloister next to the church, completed in 1495, with a portico and a loggia featuring fragments of sixteenth-century bas-reliefs.

The sacristy is home to the precious Triptych dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat, by Bermejo.