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THE DOME

The Cathedral of Saint Guido, that is the Dome of Acqui, has a pronaos that was built by Bishop Camillo Beccio (before being bishop, he was architect) in order to offer a shelter from the rain to the people who were approaching the pre-baptismal rite. The portal is certainly more beutiful, though, dated 1481, with the glory of Mary Assumpted in the Sky sculped in the upper side.

Immediately after entering the church, on the right, the so-called “icon of the Madonna of Gruschewo” may be seen, a reconstruction in baked clay of an icon to which the Acquese soldiers voted themselves during the withdrawal from the Russian campaign. From there the visitor’s and the believer’s watches go inside the church, a really imposive baroque internal vision, although, before the 1786 transformation, date when the floor was raised, the impact must have been even clearer: still today the semicolums bases are almost completely inlanded.

Beside the Spanish painting called “Madonna of the Montserrat”, located in the last part of the building, the suggestive crypt also called the “piccolo duomo” deserves attention, with its catacombal and paleochristian look, while the cloister, behind the Dome, offers to the prayer and to the reflection an intimate corner, reminding the seriousness, but also the elegant aspects of the XV century.