Church · Florence, Italy

Brunelleschi's Dome

Four million bricks laid without a centring frame, climbed between its two shells by 463 steps.

Brunelleschi's Dome is in Florence, and this is Florence — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 90 minutes · Open year-round · 43.773°N, 11.256°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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The record

What this atlas holds about Brunelleschi's Dome, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Church
Give it: 90 minutes
Season: Open year-round
Where: 43.773°N, 11.256°E
In: Florence