Altamura Cathedral stands in Altamura in Apulia, southern Italy. Emperor Frederick II commissioned it, and it was built between 1232 and 1254. In 1248 Pope Innocent IV made the church exempt from the Bishop of Bari. It collapsed on January 29, 1316 and was rebuilt, then enlarged from 1521 to 1547.
The facade has two bell towers joined by a small loggia and a fourteenth-century rose window with fifteen rays. Most portals and windows have Gothic pointed arches, the first order of the left bell tower is Romanesque, and the capitals inside are Byzantine in style. The main portal carries 22 Gospel scenes. The nave has two aisles with six side chapels each, under a wooden ceiling with gilded stucco.
Corradino de Judicibus designed the clock tower in 1858. Restorations took place in 2006 and 2017.
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