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Florence Cathedral, Florence
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It’s a sight that’s unmistakably Florence: the red-roofed cathedral which, along with its baptistery and campanile is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici in 1420, it took Filippo Brunelleschi 16 years to complete the brick dome; comprising over 4 million bricks, it’s the largest of its kind ever constructed.
Interestingly, by the time Brunelleschi was born, the cathedral itself had already been under construction for 80 years.
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