Other questions plagued the cathedral overseers. Their building plans ... for building the dome of unequaled beauty, usefulness, honor, and power that Florence yearned for. The original gilded ...

or how the Capitol dome looks more like the Florence Cathedral than the home of the Texas Lege. It's jazzy. It's angular. It reeks of its era – capital-M Modernist – in the best way possible.

Access to the cathedral changes seasonally, but generally, the church is open Monday through Saturday from 10:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The dome welcomes ... Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San ...

Palmer spoke about how when the construction of the Florence Cathedral began in 1296, much of the technology and scientific understanding necessary to build its dome did not yet exist. By the end ...

Smacked right at the heart of Florence, the cathedral known formally as Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower) as completed in 1436 with its world-famous dome ...

For that reason, "building a cathedral" is a metaphor ... The magnificent red dome and intricately carved campaniles of the Florence Cathedral add up to so much more than the sum of their parts.