Crema Cathedral

Dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, it is the seat of the Bishop of Crema.

A new building was begun in 1185, but construction was halted in 1212, not to begin again until 1284 but in Gothic style.

The church was finished in 1340, with the addition in 1385 of a lengthened apse and a crypt.

The façade is in typical Lombard Gothic style, with a single portal surmounted, in the lunette, by sculptures of the Madonna and Child and Saints Pantaleon and John the Baptist over a frieze with the faces of saints.

The façade terminates in a loggia with small marble columns.