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Dedicated to S Giorgio, the cathedral was built originally in the 7th century on the right bank of the river (the building survives, altered). After the acquisition of the relics of SS George and Maurelius in 1106, and prompted by the allegiance to Rome of Bishop Landolfus, a new site on the left bank was designated in 1132, and the building begun before 1135. The five-aisled basilica, a symbol of the emergent city-state, was dedicated in 1146. However, only the lower sections of the façade and the outer south wall up to the level of the cornice are of this period. The screen façade was completed in the 14th and 15th centuries, and the interior was remodelled in the 17th. The large, two-storey porch-portal on the west façade is the work of the sculptor Nicholaus, whose name appears in a laudatory inscription dated 1135 on the tympanum. He was probably also responsible for the two-storey Porta dei Mesi (now dismantled) on the south side of the nave facing the old market square. Its appearance can be reconstructed from descriptions and from fragments (two lions and two griffins) preserved ...