Outside the church

Gothic awe

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July 14th 2010
Up this morning to tour the Duomo of Milan. From the outside it looks pretty impressive, but when you get up onto the roof, my god. It's an amazing opportunity to explore gothic architecture (and I am in _love_with gothic architecture). We got to the first landing and saw the buttresses and I was in heaven, in spite of the sweltering heat. Each corbel is decorated slightly differently, each bu ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more