Ceiling detail in Duomo

A day at the Duomo

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October 14th 2012
Friday Oct 12th Spent the day at the food market and around the Duomo. We did the 463 steps to the top of the Duomo and had a grand view of Florence. The passages inside the Duomo were dark and narrow. It had a combination of straight flights and circular stairways finishing with a short almost verticlestairs through a trap door. You are actually going up inbetween an inner and outer domes. ... 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