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Proceeding to the Chiesa Madre, I found the lofty square campanile free from all injury, and without even a fissure, or dislodged tile. It is about 24 feet square at base, and nearly 100 feet in height, (Fig. 312,) which stands perfectly independent, but close to the cathedral, and is a new building erected about four years, of excellent and well-bonded rubble masonry, with three tiers of iron tye-bars at each floor, crossing in both directions.

Fig. 312

Close to it is the cathedral, riven and fissured from base to summit, and to such an extent as to be unsafe to enter, and requiring in great part to be rebuilt.

It is quite a modern building, the ancient one having been thrown down some years since, by earthquake also. Roman Doric in style, the walls of pretty good rubble masonry and brick; brick arches to the nave and transepts, a semi-cylindrical brick arched roof, and a dome also of brick, and rather higher than a hemisphere,

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