COMO CATHEDRAL, Interior

Entering through the central portal on the façade, you are greeted by two ancient Romanesque holy water fonts depicting a lion and a lioness, which were part of the original church.

In front of you stand three naves, which in the center reach a length of no less than 87 meters, marked by two rows of five pilasters. The average width of the cathedral is 36 meters, but in the transept area it widens to 56 meters.

If you look up above the portal you have just walked through, you can admire the splendid polychrome designs of the stained-glass windows that make up the façade's rose window: they date back to 1488.

Past the holy water fonts, a little further on, to your left is a splendid late-16th-century Renaissance-style temple with polychrome marble columns enclosing a precious 15th-century baptismal font with a finely carved wooden lid.

Along the aisles you can admire statues, stuccoes, and paintings of exquisite workmanship, and even wool and silk tapestries made between 1525 and 1635, from the most important manufacturers of the time in Milan, Ferrara, Florence and Brussels....