Alghero - Cattedrale di Santa Maria

After having defeated the Saracens, the Genoese Doria family developed the settlement into a fortified port town by 1102. Apart from two years under the rule of Pisa, the Dorias ruled Alghero upto 1353, when it was taken by the Aragonese troops under Bernardo de Cabrera. After several revolts the Genoese and indigenous Sardinian population were expelled, and Catalan colonists settled here.

That ´s why the Catalan language is co-official in Alghero, as still 22% of the population speak "Algherese Catalan" as a first language.

The Alghero Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Alghero-Bosa.
Construction work started in the 1530s. It was consecrated about 200 years later in 1730.