Cattedrale di San Lorenzo

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo stands in Tivoli, Italy, as a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Lawrence and seat of the local bishop. Its west front presents a portico with three arches. A Romanesque bell tower rises beside it, while the Baroque interior follows a single nave with side chapels. The tower reaches about forty-seven metres.

Tradition connects the foundations with Constantine or Pope Simplicius, while the first documented mention appears in Pope Leo III’s biography. The original church covered a Roman forum basilica. Its surviving apse belongs to that earlier setting, and Romanesque rebuilding during the eleventh and twelfth centuries left the bell tower. Cardinal Giulio Roma commissioned the Baroque rebuilding, consecrated in 1641 and completed with the portico in 1650.

Interior decoration was completed in the early nineteenth century with frescoes by Angelo De Angelis. Side chapels hold works by Guido Reni and Ludovico Gimignani, alongside a thirteenth-century wooden Descent from the Cross. The Chapel of the Most Holy Savior preserves a twelfth-century Triptych of the Savior.