Museo della Cattedrale

The Cathedral Museum located in the city center. Established by decree of the Bishop Angelo Rizzo on November 7, 1998, preserves and exhibits sacred objects and objects of worship of fine workmanship: seven exhibition halls that preserve relics of saints venerated in the Ragusa, a large number of gold, jewels, episcopal vestments and liturgical texts and wooden statues fruit of popular devotion. The rooms are in chronological reference: the first is devoted to the period before the earthquake of January 11, 1693, exposes the relic case of St. George in ivory and inlaid wood, Venetian invoice of the fourteenth century, a scripture of St. Augustine dated Lyon 1493 and an admirable body bag from 1500. Turning to the second room is still admired in front of objects of worship of San Giovanni Battista including the holy ark dated 1731. The third and fourth rooms are dedicated to the custody of furnishings altar, of unusual beauty 14 canvases of the Cross from1775, by Stefano Ragazzi, recently restored, illustrating the poignant story of the Passion of Christ. The fifth room is devoted to the Neoclassical, with vestments made of fine silk embroidered in gold and silver dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sixth room is dedicated to the cult of the Virgin Mary: crowns, paintings and a valuable processional banner of the late nineteenth century belonged to the "Confraternity of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lady of the Medal". In the last room, the seventh, are the sacred objects of the fifties performed following the erection of the Diocese of Dubrovnik on May 6, 1950, including rings, crosses episcopal Mitra and precious silk embroidered in gold of the nineteenth century. In short, a structure that well deserves to be enjoyed by people from Ragusa and those who visit the city, is a credit to the local community and for the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in particular, that in 2002 was included in the World Heritage List of Unesco, thus becoming a world heritage site.