Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower ( the bell tower of the city's cathedral ), the city of over 88, 332 residents ( around 200, 000 with the metropolitan area ) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several palaces and various bridges across the River Arno.

Although not so refined as mosaics in Cefalù and the Palazzo dei Normanni, the cathedral interior nevertheless contains the largest cycle of Byzantine mosaics extant in Italy.

Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the most well-known churches ever built, Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris ; that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra ( official chair ) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois.

The cathedral contains the best preserved of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta and a large mechanical clock installed in the cathedral in 1386 — the oldest surviving mechanical clock in Britain.

The South West Tower ( Oxford Tower ) contains the cathedral ’ s main ring of bells, hung for change ringing in the English style.

The North West Tower ( Arundel Tower ) contains the cathedral ’ s clock chime.

The cathedral also contains a statue of St. Giuseppe Moscati, a native of the area.

The city contains numerous medieval buildings, including the cathedral Notre-Dame of Laon, dating mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The cathedral contains the oldest ring of ten bells in the United Kingdom, with the 15th century tenor being older than the tower itself.

The Romano-Gothic cathedral, where lie the remains of Jörg Jenatsch, was begun by Bishop Tello ( 758-73 ), and has a highly interesting crypt ; it contains some remarkable paintings by Dürer and Holbein.

The church contains Biblical paintings, a colossal statue of Christ seated between the Virgin Mary and St John ( 13th century, originally belonging to the cathedral of Thérouanne and presented by the emperor Charles V ), the cenotaph of Saint Audomare ( Omer ) ( 13th century ) and numerous ex-votos.

The north tower was added in 1678 and the south tower in 1768. The shape of the cathedral is a Latin cross and contains five naves.

The park behind the cathedral is Jardin Gregorio Torres Quintero, which contains mango, tabachin ( Caesalpinia mexicana ) and palm trees along with stands selling handcrafts, novelties and food.

The cathedral famously contains the reputed tomb of Strongbow, a medieval Norman-Welsh peer and warlord who came to Ireland at the request of King Diarmuid MacMorrough and whose arrival marked the beginning of English involvement in Ireland.

Christ Church also contains the largest cathedral crypt ( 63. 4m long ) in Britain or Ireland, constructed in 1172-1173.

Behind the altar area, there is the Chapter House, which contains cathedral offices, meeting rooms and other facilities.

English Gothic architecture flourished from the 12th to the early 16th century, and famous examples include Westminster Abbey, the traditional place of coronation for the British monarch, which also has a long tradition as a venue for royal weddings ); Canterbury Cathedral, one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England ; Salisbury Cathedral, which has the tallest church spire in the UK ; and Winchester Cathedral, which contains the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.

The cathedral contains the tombs of saint princes Vsevolod ( died in 1138 ) and Dovmont ( died in 1299 ).

This cathedral contains a series of paintings built into the church's wooden panelling depicting the Martyrologium Romanum.

The cathedral contains a rare relic, the body of Saint John the Merciful from the 7th century.

The cathedral contains the relics of St. Erasmus, transferred from Formia ; the remarkable campanile, in Arab-Norman style, dates from the 12th century.

The cathedral has been much altered, but still contains medieval work of the 13th and 14th centuries, notable a handsome western tower and processional door.

The cathedral contains an octagonal marble canopy with sculptures in relief, with a font below it belonging to the 8th century, but altered later.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

Cardinals had the right to display the galero in their cathedral, and when a cardinal died, it would be suspended from the ceiling above his tomb.

It is believed that recently discovered remains of a double tomb in Poznań cathedral may be the burial places of the first two Polish Rulers: Boleslaw I and his father Mieszko.

In the center, just beyond the crossing, is the large, raised High Altar, behind which is a wrought iron enclosure containing the Gothic style tomb of the man who originally conceived and founded the cathedral, The Right Reverend Horatio Potter, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., Bishop of New York.

Also in 1170, Ferdinand created the military-religious Order of Santiago de Compostela, with the task to protect the pilgrim travelling to the tomb of the apostle James in the cathedral of Compostela.

After the Angevin conquest the city was particularly beautified by the work of the famous sculptor, Boboccio da Piperno, admired by Queen Consort Margherita of Durazzo who took up her abode in Salerno and was buried in the monumental tomb, which is today in the cathedral.

The tomb of Saint Amphibalus is also in the cathedral.

File: Guy B6. JPG | Defaced tomb effigy of Bishop Guy of Avesnes, Utrecht cathedral

Cardinal Cisneros ' tomb, in the cathedral

When the cathedral was rebuilt, his remains were moved to the new church, but the location of the tomb has been lost.

Miracles were said to have been worked at his tomb in Canterbury cathedral, but efforts to have him declared a saint were unsuccessful.

In the Elm limestone was mined in medieval times ; limestone from the region was used for the tomb of Henry the Lion as well as for the imperial cathedral of Königslutter.

Della Quercia's earliest work ( though this attribution is sometimes contested ) appears in the Lucca cathedral: Man of Sorrows ( Altar of the Sacrament ) and a relief on the tomb of St. Aniello.

Back again in Lucca in 1406, he received the commission from the city's ruler, Paolo Guinigi, to begin work at the tomb of his second wife Ilaria del Carretto in the Lucca cathedral.

Of Mino's earlier works, the finest are in the cathedral of Fiesole, the altarpiece and tomb of Bishop Leonardo Salutati ( died 1466 )

In 1104, early in the bishopric of Ranulf Flambard, Cuthbert's tomb was opened again and his relics translated to a new shrine behind the main altar of the half-built Norman cathedral.

The Basilica di San Pietro was the first cathedral of the Christian era, then transformed into a tomb of Saint Sabino ( 556 ), patron of Canosa.

The cathedral is also seat of the tomb of Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy.

Within the cathedral there is a medieval tomb of a knight and his wife, the inspiration of the poem " An Arundel Tomb ", by Philip Larkin.

Goślicki's tomb in Poznań cathedral

A large tomb in the grounds of the cathedral was built much later by John O ' Donnell ( 1803 – 1879 ), the most prominent descendant two centuries later, and whose own direct male descendant was the late Patrick Denis O ' Donnell ( 1922 – 2005 ), well-known Irish military historian.

The tomb of John of Nepomuk inside the cathedral

The cult had twin foci: his tomb, in the apse, directly behind the high altar of the cathedral ; and more particularly his skull, kept in a special Head Chapel, above the south aisle.