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One can't help feeling humbled and quite frankly, dwarfed as you stand beside Florence's Duomo with Brunelleschi's dome rising boldly to the heavens or next to Giotto's campanile standing alongside since 1333. Imagine for a moment, what life was like ...
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Hotel Brunelleschi Florence
Brunelleschi Hotel Florence - A Summit Hotel
... Mssrs Litta and his friends get their act together.
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The Hotel Brunelleschi is very well located in the pedestrian area in the centre of Florence, only moments away from the Duomo. ...
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Piazza Santa Elisabetta 3, Via De Calzaioli Florence, Tuscany, Italy, 50122
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... topped by a gigantic red-brick dome completed during the High Renaissance in 1434 by the architect/artist Filippo Brunelleschi. This dome is the most recognizable feature of Florence, and it took quite a bit of heartache (15 years of it, to be exact) to ...
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... ... The Duomo is stunning with its beautiful white, pink and green marble façade and its magnificent dome designed by Brunelleschi. The campanile (Giotti's bell tower) is right next-door.
Duomo with Giotti's Campanile
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... , however the planned domed roof turned out to be much harder to construct than originally projected. However in 1420, Brunelleschi's engineering genius devised a plan to build the enormous arterial structure without the use of a fixed centre thanks to the ...
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... to him called for another competition this time for the dome. Everyone that came had ideas that were not possible. Then Brunelleschi got the last turn he pulled out an egg and said who ever can get this egg to stand on its vertical axis ...
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... straight ahead at his cathedral, and Brunelleschi, looking up at his dome.
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