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Piacenza Cathedral, fully the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Giustina, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Piacenza, Italy. The current structure was built between 1122 and 1233 and is one of the most valuable examples of a Romanesque cathedral in northern Italy. The dedication is to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and to Saint Justina. It is the seat of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio. 
It is the largest Romanesque church in Emilia-Romagna. The façade, in Veronese pink marble and gilded stone, is horizontally divided by a gallery that dominates the three portals, decorated with capitals and Romanesque statues. The interior has a nave and two aisles, divided by twenty-five massive pillars. Its noteworthy frescoes were made in the 14th-16th centuries by Camillo Procaccini and Ludovico Carracci, while the frescos inside the dome are by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri. The presbytery has a wooden sculpture from 1479, wooden choirstalls by Giangiacomo da Genova (1471) and 15th-century statues of the Lombard school. 	
A workshop was held during 900th anniversary celebrations in 2022, culminating in the assemblage of the small paintings that in their uniqueness brought alive with warmth and life the appearance of the Cathedral’s ancient facade. A panel was reproduced on the €1,20 Vatican stamp celebrating the 900th anniversary of its foundation and is also the symbol that accompanied the event celebrations in the Piacenza-Bobbio area throughout 2022.

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