(excerpt from article published in La Grande Province "23 December 2002, entitled" Piazza Duomo, the womb of Lucera) "It's from ledge to ledge effect of galloping between daring ambush , is a fine amount, a handwriting nothing, dangerous and even serene, as befits a fourteenth-century Provencal factory still enthralled the East ": that is how Ungaretti describes the Cathedral after a visit to the city. It was built in 1300. Charles II of Anjou would like the majestic testimony to the victory on the "infidel Saracens." It was built on the ruins of the old mosque, another symbolic element. The Cathedral was completed, probably in 1317. But already in 1302, with the consecration of the temple, the one that first was called "Luceria Saracenorum" becomes " Civitas Sanctae Mariae. "Bishop Stephen, in fact, dedicated to St. Mary's Cathedral, patron saint of Lucera. The statue of the saint are assigned to some events" miracles "such as protection City by the terrible earthquake of 1688 from 1702 and 1731. Example of Gothic-Byzantine style, was the work of craftsmen from Puglia and directed by the French builder Ravello Nicola of Foggia, in part, by the renowned architect Peter D'Angicourt. The Cathedral Basilica in 1834 and declared a national monument in 1874, offers to the attention of visitors splendid frescoes and works of religious art of the first magnitude.
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