Description
The Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity is Campobasso's most important church: a neoclassical temple with a portico of columns and a large triangular pediment, on the edge of the Murattian district, the new 19th-century town.
The stone facade is all in its pronaos, with Ionic columns holding up the pediment; on the left rises the bell tower. The interior is spacious and divided into three aisles.
Above the high altar stands an elegant baldachin on Corinthian capitals. In the apse, added between 1927 and 1933, a fresco by Romeo Musa tells the story of Pentecost.
The two large side chapels were frescoed by Amedeo Trivisonno. On the right, in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, is his Last Supper, painted in 1933; other works of his are the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes and the Delivery of the Keys.
Take a look, too, at the granite baptismal font in the left aisle, a square basin from 1745. The stained-glass windows show the saints who defended the dogma of the Trinity: Augustine, Hilary, Athanasius and Nicholas.
The first church was built in 1504, outside the walls, at the wish of the feudal lord Andrea de Capua. It was the seat of the confraternity of the Trinity, which in the 16th century became famous for its feuds with that of the Crusaders.
The earthquake of 1805 destroyed it. The architect Bernardino Musenga redesigned it and it reopened for worship in 1829, but it had an eventful life: in 1860 it was closed and turned into a barracks, and the faithful only returned in 1900.
It became a cathedral in 1927, when the bishop's seat moved from Bojano to Campobasso. For the occasion the nave was raised and the apse built.
Behind the altar are the walnut choir stalls and the pipe organ built by Ponziano Bevilacqua in 1993, with three keyboards and 41 stops.
The stone facade is all in its pronaos, with Ionic columns holding up the pediment; on the left rises the bell tower. The interior is spacious and divided into three aisles.
Above the high altar stands an elegant baldachin on Corinthian capitals. In the apse, added between 1927 and 1933, a fresco by Romeo Musa tells the story of Pentecost.
The two large side chapels were frescoed by Amedeo Trivisonno. On the right, in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, is his Last Supper, painted in 1933; other works of his are the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes and the Delivery of the Keys.
Take a look, too, at the granite baptismal font in the left aisle, a square basin from 1745. The stained-glass windows show the saints who defended the dogma of the Trinity: Augustine, Hilary, Athanasius and Nicholas.
The first church was built in 1504, outside the walls, at the wish of the feudal lord Andrea de Capua. It was the seat of the confraternity of the Trinity, which in the 16th century became famous for its feuds with that of the Crusaders.
The earthquake of 1805 destroyed it. The architect Bernardino Musenga redesigned it and it reopened for worship in 1829, but it had an eventful life: in 1860 it was closed and turned into a barracks, and the faithful only returned in 1900.
It became a cathedral in 1927, when the bishop's seat moved from Bojano to Campobasso. For the occasion the nave was raised and the apse built.
Behind the altar are the walnut choir stalls and the pipe organ built by Ponziano Bevilacqua in 1993, with three keyboards and 41 stops.