The Duomo, Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence
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Designed
by Arnolfo Cambio at the close of the 13th Century the Duomo of
Firenze is one of Florence's internationally recognised symbols.
The magnificient Cupola [seen right] was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
Cambio died in 1302 and work was halted.Thirty years later the artist
Giotto agreed to work on the Duomo but he only managed to complete
the bell-tower before he died in 1337. Twenty-seven years later
the old cathedral was taken down and a new one started, this some
one-hundred years after the initial plans were drawn up. 
It
was at this point that Brunelleschi designed the great dome. The
dome is in fact made up of two domes, one that is seen from the
outside and another which can be viewed from the interior of the
cathedral - where frescoes by Paolo Uccello adorn the cupola. It
was not until 1436 that the cathedral was finally completed.