The Dogal Cathedral was begun in the early 1600’s and was completed before the first half of the same century. It comprises a single room covered by marvellous trusses made of durmast beams. There are no columns to obstruct the view of the three chapels of the choir, the four side altars, the organ with the chancel and the beautiful suspended pulpit.
The small wooden Madonna attributed to Domenico da Tolmezzo and the seventeenth-century Pala delle Milizie by Alessandro Varotari, called Padovanino, are considered to be of high value. Inside the sacristy you can see the portrait of some Provveditori Generali ( General Superintendents)
The Church of St Francis
This is a small church with an octagonal plot built in the first decade of the1600’s.
The French changed its use for military purposes and only in 1900 was it opened to religious celebration again. Here there had once been a Franciscan Friar’s monastery the remains of which are still visible today.
By the end of the 1700’s the monastery had already been converted into a Hospital for the Poor, the “Ospitale de’ Poveri Infermi”
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
This small church with a rectangular plot overlooked the square of a sestriere, only a quarter of which is visible. The church was built at the beginning of the 1660’s by the Friars Minorites Capuchins who settled in a small monastery nearby. It was deconsecrated by the French and turned into a storehouse and was never restored to religious use.
