Forlì Cathedral is one of the symbols of the city’s religious and civil history and has been mentioned since the 10th century. A large fresco in the apse of the presbytery, painted in 1863 by Pompeo Randi, illustrates the "invention and recognition of the Holy Cross" to which the church is dedicated. The current neoclassical appearance, the result of the extensive work that followed the demolition of the primitive Romanesque-Gothic church, was given to the church by the architect Giulio Zambianchi who completed the new building in 1841. The chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in the right aisle and the large chapel of the Madonna del Fuoco in the left aisle, built between 1614 and 1636 and surmounted by an octagonal dome with frescoes by Carlo Cignani, who depicted the Assumption of the Virgin into heaven, remain from the previous structure.
