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Florence Photo Gallery
Photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson
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 nto every life a little rain must fall: "We had some bad weather on our shoot in Florence, but that didn't stop visitors from creating this colorful parade of umbrellas as they filed past the duomo," says Coulson. The cathedral is crafted with colored Tuscan marble—white from Carrara, red from the Maremma, and green from Prato. It is dedicated to Holy Mary of the Flower, the Madonna of Florence, but may be best known for its dome designed by Michelangelo rival Brunelleschi, and the bronze "Gates of Paradise" doors created by Lorenzo Ghiberti (now on display in the cathedral's museum).
Read more about Florence in "Stalking Michelangelo," in Traveler's July/August 2006 issue.
Florence Trip Planner
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