Piazza del Duomo
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of faith, history and art

Seven centuries of documents
recording the Opera's work

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accessible visits

04/08/2021

From August 6th the digital Covid health certificate, or Green Pass, is mandatory to visit our monuments.

Refunds are not available for people who cannot access because they do not have the certificate.

04/08/2021

All our monuments are open every day except the Cathedral and its terraces that on Sundays are closed for liturgical reasons.

04/08/2021

Important notice: users are advised to be wary of unofficial websites that resell tickets for the Florence Cathedral.

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A single great complex comprising the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi's Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Ancient Basilica of Santa Reparata and the Opera del Duomo Museum.

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Guided tours, panoramic tours and exclusive routes designed to admire the monuments of Piazza Duomo from unusual points of view, discover their curiosities and appreciate in detail the works that are part of it.

Virtual tour

Virtual tour of the bell tower and dome

Guided tours

Tour to discover the monumental complex

Exclusive tours

Tour by an "unusual" point of view

Didactic tours

Traveling with school groups

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Cathedral

Dome

Baptistery

Giotto's Bell Tower

Opera del Duomo Museum

The Duomo Terraces

Opera Magazine

The restoration of Michelangelo's Pietà

A technical note by the restorer Paola Rosa

How many "faces" has the Cathedral of Florence had?

Brief history of the facade of Santa Maria del Fiore, from its origins to the present day

A Hellenistic Marble for Michelangelo's Dead Christ

At the end of 2018, the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore decided to undertake the restoration of Mi-chelangelo's Pietà. This ...

Michelangelo’s Florence Pietà

Historic Note - Mons. Timothy Verdon, Director of Opera del Duomo Museum

Michelangelo's Pietà restored

The intervention restores the beauty of one of Michelangelo's most intense and tormented masterpieces to the world now freed ...

“La via della Croce” - Regional Festival of Sacred Music

The restoration site of the monumental “Porta dei Cornacchini” of the Cathedral of Florence has started

The legend of the Lions and the dream that became reality

On the 8th of September 1296 the first stone of the cathedral of Florence was laid

On this Day...

The construction site of Brunelleschi's Dome: men and machines

In designing the construction of the dome Brunelleschi's genius overcame the culture of his time and that of the ancient ...