While in Italy over the summer, I visited this beautiful Cathedral. Although I have visited hundreds of Cathedrals during family holidays in the past, and despite previous to the holiday deciding not to write any entries on Cathedrals or churches that I visit, I couldn't resist this one. I have never experienced an architectural design so exquisite and breathtaking. When we sat by it to eat our lunch I found it's beauty and elaborate design kind of surreal. Although quite garish and its criticism for being overly fancy, I really admire the design and time that must have gone into every statue, and every pattern design. The inside is somewhat odd in that it's so unlike the facade- bare, gothic and quite empty, which was designed to represent the austerity of religious life.
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