St. Mary's Cathedral

The doorway

Before visiting make sure that no religious services are taking place.
Thank you.

Before entering, stop in front of the cathedral to look at the doorway.
Unlike the facade, it is built in stone and marble.
This doorway has two doors separated by a marble pier and framed by two columns supporting two basket arches.
Above the door, a blind tympanum is surrounded by five stone arches resting on slender columns whose capitals are decorated with plant motifs. Everything is crowned by a triangular gable decorated with choux frisés and finished with a fleuron (in a flower shape).

Now go down the three porch steps and enter the cathedral through the small door on the right.
Before going any further turn immediately left to look at the two capitals transformed in the eighteenth century into fonts, each side of the door.
Dated to the pre-Roman era, they could be from the early church of the Benedictine Abbey founded in 810 that preceded the Bishopric created in 1317.
Keep left to enter the baptistery