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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Dimensions
This post is a continuation from The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Different sources give a wide variety of different dimensions for the dome, but there seems to be reasonable agreement that the “across flats” diameter of the … Continue reading
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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence
The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore was the first dome structure of that size built since the Pantheon in Rome (126 AD) and the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (537 AD). Some sources say it is a little larger … Continue reading
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Maybe the Romans can fairly claim the credit for spreading the aqueduct from Portugal to the Middle East, but the voussoir arch, typical of Roman aqueduct construction, did not originate with them. The first known voussoir arches were constructed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch structures, etruscan, perugia, roman
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Seven Florence Bridges
There are seven bridges over the River Arno in the central area of Florence, of which only one (The Ponte Vecchio) is an original old structure, the remainder of the old bridges having been destroyed by the retreating German army at … Continue reading
A tour of Venice backstreets
The great majority of the tourists in Venice are concentrated within a stone’s throw of The Grand Canal and St Mark’s Square, but the real charm of the place is in the back streets and canals, where (apart from the … Continue reading
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