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La Torre Pendente / The Leaning Tower - Piazza dei Miracoli - Pisa - Toscana / Tuscany - Italia / Italy
Florence, Italy
December 11th, 2018
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During our day in port at Messina, Sicily, Mike and I joined a few fellow passengers on a private tour with Sicily Life.
The second stop on our tour was the enchanting town of Taormina, where we strolled along the main street of Corso Umberto from Porta Messina to Porta Catania. I stopped frequently to photograph Taormina's historic sights, including the Duomo (Cathedral). This photo shows a front view of the edifice facing onto Piazza Duomo.
The medieval church dates to the 13th century or circa 1400 (various sources list different dates); it was built on the foundations of an earlier church dedicated to St. Nicholas of Bari, which is why the cathedral is also known as Chiesa di San Nicolò or Cattedrale di San Nicolò (Church or Cathedral of St. Nicholas). It is sometimes referred to as La Cattedrale Fortezza (Fortress Cathedral) for its imposing stone facade and battlements. The original structure was rebuilt and/or altered several times over the centuries, and was restored by Neopolitan architect Armando Dillon between 1945 and 1948. The church was elevated to the rank of a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
The front of the church features an elaborate portal flanked by narrow, mullioned, ogival arch windows dating to the 15th century; a Renaissance-style carved rosette of Siracusa (Syracuse) stone is set above the door, just below the peaked roof line. The inscribed plaque above the entrance notes that the portal was redesigned in 1636 by decision of a local jury. The current Renaissance Portal features bas-relief carvings surrounding the doorway, with 11 figures on each side. The uppermost full-length figures of two bishops represent St. Nicholas of Bari and St. Pancras, Taormina's patron saint. Flanking the doorjamb are two fluted Corinthin columns; above the portal is a lintel with a broken pediment. (A smaller version of the broken pediment appears above the dedicatory plaque.) The bas-relief panels above the wooden doors depict an elongated figure of Jesus Christ as shepherd; he tends a small flock of lambs, and several birds (doves) appear at the upper right. (I can't seem to find any details on the bas-relief panels, so I'm not sure when they were made or who designed them.)
Duomo di Palmanova / Palmanova Cathedral (1615 -1636) - Piazza Grande - Palmanova - Provincia di Udine / Province of Udine - Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Italia / Italy
Details best viewed in Original Size.
Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria dei Fiore ("Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower"), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy (Duomo di Firenze). It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, Brunelleschi's dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed. After the Cathedral's principal architect Arnolfo di Cambio died in 1310, work on the cathedral slowed for thirty years. When the relics of Saint Zenobius were discovered in 1330 in Santa Reparata, the project gained a new impetus. In 1331, the Arte della Lana, the guild of wool merchants, took over patronage for the construction of the cathedral and in 1334 appointed Giotto to oversee the work. Assisted by Andrea Pisano, Giotto continued di Cambio's design. His major accomplishment was the building of the campanile. When Giotto died the January 8th of 1337, Andrea Pisano continued the building until work was halted due to the Great Plague in 1348. In 1349, work resumed on the cathedral under a series of architects, starting with Francesco Talenti, who finished the campanile and enlarged the overall project to include the apse and the side chapels.
This image was captured from the upper-most level (available to non-VIPs) of the Torre d'Arnolfo at the Palazzo Vecchio.
Additional information may be obtained at Wikipedia.
Florence, Italy - March 22, 2018: Landmarks including the Duomo cathedral and Palazzo Vecchio stand in the Renaissance cityscape of Florence, with the hills of Monteferrato rising behind.
Siena, Il Duomo
The inlaid marble mosaic floor is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of the cathedral. This undertaking went on from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, and about forty artists made their contribution.
Started by Vasari and completed by Zuccaro, painted on the interior of Brunelleschi's dome that sits on the Cathedral of Florence.
The view of the city of Verona from the terrace of Castel San Pietro, with Il Duomo to the left, beside the River Adige.
Verona’s Duomo was consecrated in 1187, having been built on the site of an ancient Christian structure, and has served as one of the city’s many centres of religious devotion ever since.
It has been worked on for almost all of its 825-year history, with major restoration carried out in the 15th and 16th centuries and the bell tower added in 1927.
The interior is a mixture of architectural styles, from Romanesque in its lower levels to Gothic the higher up you go, which each chapel has its own individual feel.
There is a grand organ and artwork by the likes of Titian and Falconetto decorating the interior.
The Duomo is part of a larger cathedral complex with the churches of San Giovanni in Fonte and Sant’Elana, the latter built roughly over the location of a fourth-century basilica.
Recent restoration has involved the restoration of the frescoes and the lighting system.
Ponte Pietra (the Stone Bridge) is a Roman arch bridge crossing the River Adige to the north of the old city centre in Verona.
It was completed by the start of the first century BC and provided access from the city to the Roman Theatre on the slopes of Veronetta.
German soldiers destroyed much of the bridge as they fled at the end of the Second World War, with restoration taking place in 1957, using original materials.