San Pietro Cathedral (Dome), Mantua

The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Peter, whose day is 29 June. Other celebration days are Saint Anselm – which is the city and diocese patron - on 18 March, and the first Sunday after 11 November, id est the day of Crowned Blessed Virgin Mary.
There was a church here already in very ancient times; on the left side there were also a little church dedicated to St. Paul and a small temple dedicated to St. Mary, which was decked with Giotto's school frescoes. During XV century they tore it down and built the present Chapel of Crowned Blessed Virgin Mary, between St. Paul and St. Peter churches.
Today the building has a Gothic right side and a neoclassical façade by Nicolò Baschiera (1755), while the interior was designed by Giulio Romano and is decked with sculptures and paintings by Andreasino, Teodoro Ghisi, Gerolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Domenico Fetti, Giambettino Cignaroli, Domenico Brusasorci, Giuseppe Bazzani and Felice Campi.