The Grand Hotel Minerva Florence
Italy has created this virtual tour to enable
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The Cathedral or Duomo and the Baptistery of
Florence stand in a huge rectangular area and
occupy two separate but comunicating squares:
Piazza del Duomo, which contains the basilica
of Santa Maria del Fiore (the third largest cathedral
in the world after St. Peter's in Rome and St.
Paul's in London), and Piazza San Giovanni.
with the Baptistery right in the centre, probably
the first Christian church in the city, as it
was built in late Roman times (4th-5th century
A.D.) on the ruins of what was possibly a Roman
temple dedicated to the god Mars.
However, the Baptistery as we see it today, which
has always represented an architectural reference
point for Florentine artists, dates from the 11th-13th
century, when the external revestmment of marble,
the interior and the mosaics in the cupola were
completed.
The three famous doors in gilded bronze, including
the so-called Doors "of Paradise", were
cast at a later date, between 1330 and 1452.
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