Basilica di San Biagio ★
Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings.
Cento: 3 places to start with
- Churches Basilica di San Biagio Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings.
- Churches Chiesa dei Santi Sebastiano e Rocco Cento's sixteenth-century church of the plague saints, which in 1964 lost its bell tower and part of its façade.
- Churches Chiesa di San Lorenzo The parish church of Casumaro, rebuilt several times since the fifteenth century and reopened in 2020 after the quake.
6 places covered in Cento Grouped by type, most important first.
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Churches and places of worship
4Chiesa dei Santi Sebastiano e Rocco ★
Cento's sixteenth-century church of the plague saints, which in 1964 lost its bell tower and part of its façade.
Chiesa di San Lorenzo ★
The parish church of Casumaro, rebuilt several times since the fifteenth century and reopened in 2020 after the quake.
Chiesa di San Pietro
One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here.
Castles, palaces and villas
2Palazzo Provenzali
The house in Cento with Guercino's frieze and a wooden ceiling painted with the constellations: it is private.
Rocca di Cento
The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969.
Tours & experiences in Cento
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What to eat here 2
Tagliatelle al Ragù · Coppia Ferrarese
Where to stay
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Saint Blaise, patron of the town whose Carnival was already depicted in 1615 by Guercino, Wednesday 3 February
Getting there
Nearest airport: Bologna Marconi, 22 km away
Near Cento
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
