La Spezia's cathedral, also known as Christ the King of Centuries, was designed by Adalberto Libera and completed in the 1970s. The bold modernist design stands in striking contrast to the city's nineteenth-century architecture, with a distinctive circular plan and clean concrete lines. The exterior reads as a series of curved concrete forms crowned by a slender campanile.
The interior is surprisingly warm: light enters through glazed sections around the drum of the building, and the circular plan draws the eye toward the high altar at the centre. Worth a visit even if you don't normally seek out modern churches — it's a serious work of architecture in a city not always associated with design.