Editing Ancona (section)

===Ancona Cathedral===
[[File:Cannon in Ancona.jpg|thumb|A cannon situated near the Arch of Trajan, with the [[Ancona Cathedral]] in the background]]
[[File:Ancona, Sa.jpg|thumb|Renaissance Gothic door of the church of Sant'Agostino]]
[[Ancona Cathedral]], dedicated to [[Judas Cyriacus]], was consecrated at the beginning of the 11th century and completed in 1189.<ref>''San Ciriaco – La cattedrale di Ancona'', Federico Motta editore, 2003</ref> Some writers suppose that the original church was in the form of a [[basilica]] and belonged to the 7th century. An early restoration was completed in 1234. It is a fine [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] building in grey stone, built in the form of a Greek cross, and other elements of Byzantine art. It has a dodecagonal dome over the centre slightly altered by Margaritone d'Arezzo in 1270. The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como (1228), which was intended to have a lateral arch on each side. The interior, which has a crypt under each transept, in the main preserves its original character. It has ten columns which are attributed to the temple of Venus.<ref name="EB1911"/> The church was restored in the 1980s.