Santa Maria del Fiore

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Florence's cathedral, and Brunelleschi's dome is the reason the city looks the way it does from every hill around it. The nave is free and surprisingly bare; the dome climb is ticketed, steep, 463 steps with no lift, and books out days ahead. Cover shoulders and knees. The complex ticket also covers the baptistery and the campanile.

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