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Location:
Europe,
Italy, Milan
Category:
Famous Landmark
Description:
View of the Duomo Cathedral, central
Milan
Location Information:
Milan Cathedral is the
cathedral church of Milan in
Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the
seat of the Archbishop of Milan,
currently Cardinal Dionigi
Tettamanzi.
The Gothic cathedral took five
centuries to complete and is the
fourth-largest church in the world.
Milan's layout, with streets either
radiating from the Duomo or circling
it, reveals that the Duomo (means
Cathedral), occupies what was the
most central site in Roman
Mediolanum, that of the public
basilica facing the forum. Saint
Ambrose's 'New Basilica' was built
on this site at the beginning of the
5th century, with an adjoining
basilica added in 836. When a fire
damaged both buildings in 1075, they
were later rebuilt as the Duomo.
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