🏛️ 7 Surprising Facts about the Duomo of Florence

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1️⃣ The Duomo took 142 years to build

2️⃣ Brunelleschi won with an egg trick

3️⃣ The climb has 463 steps

4️⃣ The Duomo was built around an old church

5️⃣ Administrators forced Brunelleschi and Ghiberti to cooperate

6️⃣ Ghiberti tried to have Brunelleschi thrown in jail

7️⃣ Brunelleschi’s dome has survived over 600 years

✨ A timeless masterpiece with stories as grand as its architecture.