PIAZZA DEI MIRACOLI, Square - History

Before describing the monuments one by one, I'd like to briefly tell you about their history so that you can orient yourself and choose your own path to take, perhaps considering the presence of other tourists or religious functions in the Cathedral.

As I mentioned in the previous file, Piazza dei Miracoli was first established with the construction of the Cathedral, whose façade was probably built towards the mid-1100s by the same architect who extended the naves inside the church. The bottom of the façade has the same blind arches that surround the whole building, while as you can see, the top is lighter thanks to a series of small loggias. Both the exterior and the interior are covered with white and black striped marble slabs.

While the Cathedral's façade was still under construction, works on the Baptistery placed in front of the church began, and were only completed in the 1300s. It has a circular layout, with a decoration on overlapping orders where you can easily note the stylistic similarities with the Cathedral. Here too you can see small arches surrounding the lower part of the building, and a small loggia in the middle section. The upper part above the loggia is instead clearly Gothic, full of pinnacles and pointed niches....