Milan Cathedral (Duomo)

Duomo station, Italy

Milan Cathedral (Duomo) is situated in Milan , Italy and is one of the city’s major church.

This stunning Gothic cathedral in Piazza del Duomo in the centre of Milan took five centuries to complete. Construction of fourth-largest church in the world was started by the ruling Visconti family in 1386. The numbers are impressive. Its vast interior, bathed in the light from its stained glass windows, can seat 40000. It has five aisles, 52 columns, 135 marble spires, and over 3400 statues flanking the exterior. Mark Twain was suitably impressed "What a wonder it is! So grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate, so airy, so graceful!"

Milan Cathedral also houses the tombs of Giacomo de Medici, two Viscontis, and a host of cardinals and archbishops. The adjacent Royal Palace features a museum exhibiting the stages of the Cathedral's construction and some statues, glass windows and tapestries.

Take a lift up to the roof and roam among the pinnacles, statues, flying buttresses, and the statue of Milan's protectress, Madonnina (the little Madonna).

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