Just when you think you have seen the most amazing churchs you could possibly see in england and france you come to Milan and see the Duomo sitting on the grand Piazza del Duomo... It is one of the biggest and impressive churches in the world... it has beautiful massive paintings which hang seemingly in mid-air all over, between the various aisles. The Duomo is supposed to be in possession of one of the nails from the Crucifixion, which it keeps in the dome just beyond the spot over the altar and only lowers down into plain view once a year ... not the day we were there ...which is good because although the church is free to enter there can be lineups ... given a chance to see a nail from the cross would bring the masses... besides if i wanted i could purchase a sliver of wood from the original cross from an exclusive unofficial catholic shop near the cathedral for around 100 dollars... brother thom says this is gothic not gregorian ... he is right as always...
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Grand Piazza del Duomo
Just when you think you have seen the most amazing churchs you could possibly see in england and france you come to Milan and see the Duomo sitting on the grand Piazza del Duomo... It is one of the biggest and impressive churches in the world... it has beautiful massive paintings which hang seemingly in mid-air all over, between the various aisles. The Duomo is supposed to be in possession of one of the nails from the Crucifixion, which it keeps in the dome just beyond the spot over the altar and only lowers down into plain view once a year ... not the day we were there ...which is good because although the church is free to enter there can be lineups ... given a chance to see a nail from the cross would bring the masses... besides if i wanted i could purchase a sliver of wood from the original cross from an exclusive unofficial catholic shop near the cathedral for around 100 dollars... brother thom says this is gothic not gregorian ... he is right as always...
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To see what this inpressive church looks like in Google maps satellite view....
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The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Bertelusconi was assaulted with one of those resin-metal replicas of the Duomo Cathedral on Sunday December 13th 2009 If Italy was a typical place, they would probably ban them, but Italy is not your typical place...so who's next?
ReplyDeletewww.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6956607.ece