Today, our curiosity concerns the famous Brunelleschi’s Cupola, monument everybody (Florentines and tourists) have seen thousands times live or in photography. Despite this, there is a macroscopic and high visible architectural detail nobody notices, because less known. If you’ve never noticed, today you’ll discover that the “drum” of the Dome, i.e. the octagonal base that […]
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On the right side of the Dome of Florence you can see a bull’s head. Even in this case, there are two versions of why a bovine head is part of the Florentine Cathedral. A version tells this bull is a tribute to all the animals that worked hard with men to build Santa Maria […]