Marsico Nuovo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint George. It stands on a hill that rises above the town. Formerly the seat of the diocese of Marsico Nuovo, it has been a co-cathedral within the Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo since 1986.
The structure was erected in 1131 under the patronage of the bishop Enrico and count Goffredo. This Romanesque church was destroyed by a fire in 1807. A new church was commissioned by the bishop Ignazio Maroldo, and completed by 1829, but an earthquake razed the building in 1857. Finally, a new cathedral was begun in 1875 and completed in 1899. The belltower dates from 1293, commissioned by Count Tommaso Sanseverino.
The main portal dates from the 16th century and is surrounded by an 18th-century relief of the Virgin. The church now has a single nave. The interior contains a wooden Madonna and Child from the 13th-century, and a 17th-century pulpit and choir. It has some paintings by Nicola Peccheneda.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.