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The Duomo (Cattedrale dei Santi Mariano e Giacomo) is the main Catholic church in Gubbio. In spite of some controversy, it seems as it stands to be a wholly fourteenth-century building.
In the interior, there is a swift succession of ten pointed diaphragm arches running uninterrupted to the ground. Their plain, rectangular forms are unembellished but for simple mouldings acting as vestigial capitals. Except that all the forms are crisp and regular, sharp-edged and planar in a manner only possible in stone, the effect is reminiscent of an upturned boat. There are no windows on the left wall and those on the right are few and small, so that the choir window is the main source for the lighting of the nave.
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