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Its vast bronze doors pictorially chart the island’s history, and the immense main gallery inside has a diamond in the floor beneath the dome, symbolizing that now-distant era when Cuba was rich.
Inside, on the ceiling of the central octagonal dome, are Correggio’s greatest masterpieces, his frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin (1530) where he achieved, in the truest sense, exalting emotion without the sentimentality of Mannerist imitators.
Among the best are the 12th-century Pentecost dome in the nave and the central dome’s 13th-century Ascension.
For many, the best reason for visiting the basilica is the view of the city from the dome or the terrace below.
Founded by King Dom Pedro II in 1698, the church has an impressive, scroll-decorated Baroque façade, brilliant white dome, stone belltower, and a chapel at the rear, Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos (Our Lady of the Afflicted), where women often pray when their fishermen husbands are away at sea.