Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica Of The Nativity Of Saint Mary, Milan, Italy. Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Di Santi Maria Nascente, Milano. (Part One).

English: Milan Cathedral.

Italiano: Milano - Duomo.

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Duomo of Milan.

The Church That Took 600 Years To Finish.

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Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano; Lombard: Domm de Milan) is the Cathedral Church of Milan, Italy. Dedicated to Saint Mary of The Nativity (Santa Maria Nascente), it is the Seat of the Archbishop of Milan.

The Gothic Cathedral took nearly six Centuries to complete. It is the second-largest Church in Italy, after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the third-largest in the World.

English: Milan Cathedral as it appeared in 1745.
Marc'Antonio Dal Re (1697-1766), “Milan's cathedral”. This engraving is # 09 from a set of 88 Vedute di Milano (“Views of Milan”) published by Del Re around 1745.
Italiano: Marc'Antonio Dal Re (1697-1766), Il Duomo di Milano. Questa incisione è la n. 09 di una serie di 88 Vedute di Milano pubblicata da Del Re attorno al 1745.
Source/Photographer: The whole series of 88 engravings is online here: http://www.storiadimilano.it/

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Milan Cathedral.
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Milan’s layout, with streets either radiating from the Duomo or encircling it, reveals that the Duomo occupies what was the most central site in Roman Mediolanum, that of the public Basilica facing the Forum.

PART TWO FOLLOWS.