This day we went into the Medici property. Sculptures here were very smooth and rough. We later went inside of the baptistery of the Duomo called “Basilica di Santa Maria Del Fiore” built by the most famous Engineer of that time called Felippo Brunelleschi.
The drawings made of marble on the floor, showed a horoscope. We saw also paintings representing hell and heaven. The biggest challenge was going through the stairs and reaching the top of the Duomo. There we walked the narrowest space in the whole Duomo.
As we reached near the end we could see how much work Domencio di Michelino put on these tall ceilings. Once we were on the top, we saw the most spectacular view.
Where excited to have reached the top. I could clearly see the amount of precision that was used to build this Duomo. Between every block on each column was a slack of cement about 2 mm apart.
After this long journey, we went and had dinner with our guides. We had a good plate of chorizo, beans and pasta. Of course we had to take final group picture.
It took seven decades to build this Duomo. We saw that this place had a lot of gold engraved on the walls with biblical stories. When we got into the huge Duomo, I felt a breeze of cold air.
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