The Cathedral of Reggio Calabria has undergone many changes throughout history due to earthquakes, wars, and shifts between the Latin and Greek-Byzantine churches. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and follows a neo-Romanesque style. The interior is bright and spacious with stained glass windows and an impressive layout of three aisles divided by marble columns. The presbytery is elevated from the main hall and houses a wooden choir and large wooden crucifix.

1. CALABRIA: la Cattedrale di Reggio Calabria
The Cathedral has gone through a lot of vicissitudes
because of the alternating links firstly to the Latin Church of
Rome and then to the Greek- Byzantine Church until the
Norman Conquest (1061) and the following renewed Latin
influence, the several rebuildings after earthquakes, wars
and sacks, some of them recorded in the 1632 memorial
stone (right side aisle) until the latest rebuilding after the
1908 earthquake.
The Cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption
and it was raised to the dignity of Basilica Minore by Pope
Paul VI (1978), its style is neo Romanesque following the
canons of the Italian architectural tradition but with
particular features resulting in an original impressive
building.
The interior is spacious and bright thanks to the big
polychromatic stained-glass windows decorated with
figures or geometric ornamental patterns; it has an
impressive plant with three aisles interrupted by three
transepts and divided by three rows of marble columns
with bell-shaped bases.
The presbytery, higher than the hall and linked to it by a
large flight of stairs, ends with a polygonal apse; it is
furnished by a wooden choir (1926) and is surmounted by a
big wooden Crucifix (dated between 1600 and 1800).