Chieri - Santa Maria della Scala

The former Collegiate Church "Santa Maria della Scala in Chieri". As it is really large, it is often named "Duomo di Chieri", though it never was a cathedral.

The first church here was erected on the site of a Roman temple to Minerva within the 5th century. This got replaced by a Romanesque buildig in the first decades of the 11th century.

From 1405 on this Romanesque church got completely remodeled and rebuilt in Gothic style and was consecrated in 1437.