Cathedral of St Anastasia

The Romanesque Cathedral of St Anastasia , near the Church of St Donat, was built in the 12th and 13th centuries on the site of an older church. Behind the richly decorated façade is an impressive three-nave interior marked by 13th-century wall paintings in the side apses. Notice particularly the fresco of a gateway in the southern apse, which was used as a model for the door frame of the main portal.

On the altar in the left apse is a marble sarcophagus containing the relics of St Anastasia, commissioned by Bishop Donat in the 9th century. The presbytery contains choir stalls lavishly carved by the Venetian artist Matej Morozon in the 15th century. The cathedral was badly bombed during WWII and has since been reconstructed.