The Cathedral of Milan Italy

The cathedral of Milan Italy

Inside 

Cathedral of Milan

Milan Cathedral is one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world and it's the second largest

Catholic Cathedral in the world. It's located in Milan,Italy. Aside from being one of the Gothic architecture in Italy, one of the main characteristic of the cathedral is the presence of thousand’s of spires. The cathedral has about 135 spires, each mounted with a statue depicting important people in Milan’s history and different characters in the bible. The highest spire and the tallest part of the cathedral measures up to 357 foot tall and holds the most important symbol of Milan the Madonina. It’s a golden statue that is so important that by law no any other building should pass the height of it. 

It took five centuries to complete the cathedral, from 1386 until the 19th century when Napoleon Bonaparte ordered to finish the cathedral’s facade. You can just imagine all the European artists who were attracted to the project and participated in doing it. There are thousands of statues inside the cathedral, beautiful stained glasses and relics.

The Milan cathedral is a celebrated landmark for architecture, the arts, and for music lovers, name it the cathedral has everything to offer. It easily places itself as one of the famous places in Italy and a place I would love to visit for it meaning and history. ONE DAY! :)

            The Gordo Art of Medellin

                                           

Botero Plaza, surrounded by the Museum of Antioquia and the Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace of Culture, is an outside park that displays 23 sculptures by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who donated these and several other artworks for the museum's renovation in 2004.[1][2] The plaza is located in an area of Medellín, Colombia known as the "Old Quarter".

Medellin may be better known as the former haunt of Pablo Escobar, but its other internationally famous, and still living, resident is renowned sculptor and artist, Fernando Botero. Known for his oversized, ‘gordo’, sculptures and paintings of people, animals, abstracts and historical events Botero’s work is monumental.

Downtown Medellin can’t really be described as a delight. It has an abundance of bad architecture, streets packed with diesel-fume-pumping traffic, a lot of homeless people and on the walk there from our hotel we found ourselves on a street populated by trans-sexual sex workers and drunks. However, it does have the Plazoleta de las Esculturas which hosts twenty three of Botero’s amazing sculptures.

Botero’s work is larger than life in more ways than one, and makes a profound impression as you wander amongst them. Its refreshing to see people posing, touching and climbing on the artworks – not something you normally see in a gallery. All the works are sculpted from bronze and have pretty literal names ‘Dog’, ‘Cat’, ‘Woman with fruit’ and so on, and although his work often has a political/social meaning the ones we saw seemed funny and ironic.