Gests and Bell Dome is located in the historical center of Florence, both on the right side of the dome. To get here we've come on foot from Santa Maria Novella station, Via Pranzano, Via Cerretani, Via Roma. Market and the objectives set in it like a magnet attracts tourists from all over the world. Here are found: in Florence Cathedral (Duomo), Giotto's Bell Tower, Florence Baptistry, Loggia del Bigallo, Archbishop's Palace and the Palace of Canonical. The western part of this square is called San Giovanni Square. Besides these there are also buildings as: Pegna, a store that sells delicacies, Nonfinito Palace.
The Opera del Duomo Museum which houses works of art removed from the Dom, Bell Tower and Baptistery, Dante Aligheri Museum (the House where the poet was born) in the years 1826-1830, in the southern part of the square was also built a series of buildings for those who served the Cathedral of Maria del Fiore. (e. g., the Primate's Palace). Between the years 1841-1844, Gests were extended with the elegant street Calzaiuoli Gests that connects with The Signoria, between Orsanmichele (Church and Museum) and the DOM. market is the Chromatic play of colours of the buildings of the square, of marble and teracotei brightness, colors red, green, Brown, white, grey. The Cathedral Bell Towercurrent Arhiologie Museum), Save Palace (headquarters of the Central Bank and Tuscan), Bragello Palace (now a museum that houses the sculptures of the Italian artists).
Bell Tower of the Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo), is Giotto di Bondone architect, built in pure Florentine, Gothic Cathedral, aligned on the right of it. The foundation stone was laid by Giotto in 1334, on a square mesh of 25 × 15 m Giotto ascended only up to the first floor, working both on the inside and the outside of the tower at the same time, because in the year 1337 on his reappointment.
The works at Bell will be answered by Andrea Pisano, who will observe the drawings from which Giotto it add two pilasters. In the year 1348 dies and the successor to Pisano, campanilei works will be the architect Francesco Talenti. Bell measures 85 meters today, although the project provide more. Bell has seven bells of different diameters, then cat bat offers the rhythms and musicality worthy of a concert. On the outside, the Bell Tower is terracotta tiles plated: white Carrrara, Siena red, green Prato, creating an amazing landscape.
Access to the tower is done on two scales: one that gives access to the top of the tower and one in rooms located on the ground floor and first floor. The Tower has at lower levels (ground floor and first floor) some rooms: one room with the ground and second floor first. These are beautifully decorated, with their safes architecture with angular arches and columns beautifully adorned with the coat of arms of the Cathedral living room downstairs and the upstairs rooms have decorations flower of Lily (Sarah heraldry).
Francesco Talenti was to complete the construction of the Tower in the year 1539, correction with massive pillars of stability in corners, between which placed the majestic, double glazing, the superiorare to ensure that the brightness of the building. He also daugat and terrace from where you have superb views of Florence. Many of the decoratiuniunile Interior and exterior of the tower were replaced with copies, the originals are on display in the Museum to find Opera del Duomo. Inside the Tower there were a lot of paintings belonging to Andrei Pisano.
The first levels could not achieve goals for Windows due to design errors. In order not to affect the resistance of the building were made lightness through longitudinal sneaky niches grills made of marble, increasing the aesthetic effect. Ultimate has a floor trifora (three sheets in window). Besides the colors on the outside teracotelor Bell Tower is ornamented with rich carvings (Catholic prophecies, Gary, baptiste), a complex iconographic, bas-reliefs, works of the great Florentine sculptors. At the first floor and the paerter ferestreleor were created niches, which contain statues and blind niches on the second floor.
The bas-reliefs in the form of panels, with the hexagonal diamonds representing the (starting on the West side, from left to right) biblical scenes (the creation of Adam and Eve) and the history of human activity: agriculture, invention of inventatrea music, the invention of metallurgy, wine inventatrea, rowing, justice, dramatic arts, geometry-all the works of Andrea Pisano. In the top of the Tower's pills are the planets of the Solar system and the performing arts (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry, astromomia) and the seven commandments are made all of Andrea Pisano in turn
Information
- Access cost 6 euro.
- Open daily between: 08:30 - 19:30.
