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Duomo
Cattedrale di San Zeno
Outside of Florence
Tuscany
Italy
Type: Religious Site
Hours: 7 am-noon, 2:30-6 pm
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Outside of Florence
Tuscany
Italy
Type: Religious Site
Hours: 7 am-noon, 2:30-6 pm
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With a striking façade of striped black and white marble, broken up by delicate tiers of arches and topped by two 18th-century statues of St Zeno and St James, it is the Duomo, at the bottom of the gently sloping square, that is the first of the square’s monuments to draw the eye. The slightly ponderous 70-m (230-foot) campanile to its side (essentially still a Lombard watchtower of plain sandstone) distracts from the effect somewhat, although attempts were made to include it in the party, as the top three levels of Romanesque-Gothic green and white marble show.Works by Andrea della Robbia brighten your approach – colorful terracotta tiles in the Gothic portico and a serene Mother with Child and Angels in the lunette above the door.
Inside, Andrea da Fiesole’s baptismal font (1498-99) is the first work to grab your attention before the silver altar dedicated to St Jacopo attracts you into the Cappella del Giudizio with its shimmer. Its delicate design conceals what was really a laborious work (weighing almost a ton and populated with 628 figures) that occupied Tuscany’s finest Gothic silversmiths between the late-13th and mid-15th centuries.
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