Lucca CathedralDuomo di San Martino

Cathedral of San Martino has anchored Lucca’s religious and civic identity since the 11th c., its deliberately off-balance Romanesque façade layered with 12th–13th cc. reliefs that set labors of the months, zodiac, and biblical story into marble. Inside, the city’s devotion gathers around the Volto Santo , a venerated crucifix that long drew pilgrims, while Jacopo della Quercia’s Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto (1406–08) introduces a new Renaissance tenderness to Lucca’s most public sacred space. Even the small wall labyrinth turns myth into a metaphor for the Christian path.