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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! :)
this is very beautiful!!! you can tell that it has so much meaning and purpose
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ReplyDeleteThis is a great building, I love the architecture and the technique. It makes me wonder what the history is behind this building. I would love to visit it and sing the "hallelujah" song and hear the walls echo in unison haha...
The Milan Cathedral is a great feat in architecture that may display many of the structural features described in our lecture today. Arches, Bearing-wall, skeleton frame, concrete, scale and proportion and so on...
ReplyDeleteTati this is breathtaking! It is such a majestic and beautiful sight! This is one of my dream places that some day I would like to visit. I can't even imagine how much trouble this must have been to build in an era where not much was available to reach those heights.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the commoners of Italy feel about such beautiful architecture in their everyday eye, just to travel where no such beauty exist. They should feel lucky. This building also puts America's culture in perspective for me. People have always said we were a melting pot and this is a great example of how so.
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