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Florence is known as the city with the orange dome created by Brunelleschi, the river with Ponte Vecchio, and the home of Dante Alighieri. Behind these famous sites and the prevalent Renaissance architecture, however, is a completely different layer of Florence; hidden corridors, ancient churches, pop art and rose gardens to name a few of the finds. Click the link to learn more 😍👉 https://bit.ly/2IDSdb5
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Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, is home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture.
One of its most iconic sights is the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. And I climb 404 steps up to the tower to have the 360 degree view of the city. And evening we had dinner at Trattoria Omera restaurant since 1943 on San Niccolò hill to have enchanting night view.
What does a mystery of mankind look like? well, it looks stunning.
How the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore was built is a puzzle that even experts today can't fully understand. The base of the dome is a imprecise octagon with no true center. Without using any central supporting system, there are many theories of how Filippo Brunelleschi -the architect who had no formal architectural training- eventually made the eight faces of the dome met precisely at the top. And 600 years later, the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is still the largest masonry dome in the world.
一個人類史上的謎團看起來是什麼樣子？ 答案是美得動人。
聖母百花大教堂的拱頂的建造方法，即使今日的專家也無法完全參透。拱頂的基座是個不完美的八邊形，因此沒有真正的中心。在沒有使用中心支稱的工法下，有很多理論推測布魯涅列斯 -沒有受過正規建築訓練的天才建築師- 是如何讓圓頂的八個面在頂端完美交會的。六百年後的今天，聖母百花大教堂的拱頂依然是世界上最大的磚造拱頂建築。
