The secrets of the Cathedral in Florence
A wood porticina behind the façade of the Cathedral. And a staircase to snail narrow... For this street we salt among the mysteries of the cathedral. Before it covers, appropriates him/it that it contains the gears of the clock of Paul Uccello. You perceives after all the weight that makes to move the hands according to the concept of the sundial. Opened another door, we keep on climbing up to the entry of the baluster that races all around the inside walls of the Cathedral. We cross this aerial camminamento discovering a new dimension of the church. There is a big silence. In correspondence of the pillars that ties him to the cruises of the time, we must graze the parapet that sticks out him on the void. In low, the decorated floor is far, the dwarfish people. From a porticina we go out on the external baluster. A narrow passage that makes angle. Under our feet, to about ten meters of distance, the plaza and the Baptistery. Better not leaning out, the parapet is low. We return back, we reenter in the aerial camminamento and from a new porticina we take another staircase. Eccoci in the attic of the aisle of left. The dark framework of beams is illuminated, to lines, from the light of the loopholes. We still salt, and the emotion is great when we enter the attic of the central aisle. We are really under the roof, in a hold of ship, as we have already found in other constructions. But it is an immense hold. We cross her among the trusses. Under of us there is the time of the church. A last staircase of stone. And a grille, that we move. Two stairs. We are on the roof, finally. From here the whole city he/she is seen. A new angling. The eye he comes upon in Saint Maria Novella. As the stage had to be stately on which pope Eugenio IV, the bishops and the principles arrived from the Dominican church up to the cathedral the day of the consecration. It was March 25 th 1436. Too crowd in the roads. Without the stage, the Pope would never have passed.
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