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The Cathedral of Grosseto was built between 1294 and 1302 by the Sienese architect Sozzo di Rustichino, on an old parish church. The cathedral was rebuilt in Renaissance and Baroque style and was finally remodelled in neo-Medieval style between 1840 and 1865. The façade of the building dates from this last remodelling.

The Cathedral of Huesca was built in Gothic style from the end of the 13th century and was completed at the beginning of the 16th century. Catholic worship in Huesca was practiced in the Aljama Mosque until the end of the 13th century.

The Cathedral of Innsbruck was first mentioned in 1180, but the church dating from this period was destroyed by an earthquake in 1689. Between 1717 and 1724, a new building was constructed in the Baroque style according to the plans of Johann Jakob Herkomer and Johann Georg Fischer. In 1944, the church was damaged by Allied bombing. In 1964, the diocese of Innsbruck was established, raising the parish church to the status of a cathedral.

The current Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera was built in the 17th century on the remains of the primitive Jerez Mosque and the former 12th century Church of the Saviour. The cathedral is a mixture of Gothic, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture. It was not elevated to the status of a cathedral until 1980.

The Cathedral of Jesus the Saviour of the World is the Catholic Cathedral of Rrëshen. The cathedral was built in 2002 at the request of the Bishop of the Diocese Cristoforo Palmieri and was inaugurated the same year. It is the main Catholic building in the region after the Abbey of St. Alexander of Orosh.

The cathedral of Lecce was first built in 1144, and a century later, in 1230, it was rebuilt in Romanesque style. In 1659, the Bishop of Lecce Luigi Pappacoda entrusted the local architect Giuseppe Zimbalo, known as Zingarello, with the task of rebuilding the cathedral church in the baroque style of Lecce. The construction was carried out between 1659 and 1670 and the architect chose not to modify the plan of the Romanesque cathedral.

The construction of this church began in 1277 and lasted until the 16th century. This building succeeds a first, older, pillaged and collapsed church. The revolution inflicted damage on the building, before its transformation of the cathedral into a temple of religion.

The Cathedral of Our Lady, built in 1352, is a cathedral in Antwerp. it was a cathedral between 1559 and 1803 (suppression of the diocese of Antwerp by Napoleon) and from 1961 to the present. The tower of the Cathedral of Our Lady is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of a group of 56 belfries in Belgium and France.

The Cathedral of Parma was built from 1074 to 1178 on a previous church destroyed by fire in the 9th century. Mainly Romanesque on the outside, the interior of the cathedral underwent several interventions in Renaissance style. The Gothic bell tower was rebuilt by the Obizzo Sanvitale between 1284 and 1291.

The Cathedral of Pavia, founded in the 15th century, is an important Renaissance building, recognizable by its octagonal masonry dome, one of the largest in Italy. The construction of the cathedral began in 1488 on the site of the two pre-existing Romanesque cathedrals. The cathedral was not completed until the 1930s, with the construction in 1930-33 of the two arms of the transept, built according to the original 16th-century plans. A 78 m high bell tower (the Torre Civica) originally flanked the cathedral. Mentioned as early as 1330 and enlarged in 1583, it collapsed in 1989. Its remains are still visible on the left side of the cathedral.