8/31/2023 0 Comments Santa maria del fiore proiezione![]() ![]() Santa Maria del Fiore was built on the site of Florence's second cathedral dedicated to Saint Reparata the first was the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, the first building of which was consecrated as a church in 393 by St. The Duomo viewed from the heights of Piazzale Michelangelo The cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Florence, whose archbishop is Giuseppe Betori. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. These three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence and are a major tourist attraction of Tuscany. The cathedral complex, in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris. ![]() It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore ( Italian pronunciation: in English Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy ( Italian: Duomo di Firenze). ![]()
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