Milan Cathedral

Description from wikipedia

Milan Cathedral is the cathedral church of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi. The Gothic cathedral took five centuries to complete and is the fourth-largest church in the world. Read more

Description from yahoo

Watched over by the Madonnina, the cathedral's high rose marble spires represent the city's most famous artistic and religious monument. The dimensions of Christendom's third biggest church are still awe-inspiring at 108m high (to the tip of the tallest spire) and 158m long. A range of architectural styles feature: doorways are 17th century, the central balcony from the late 18th Century and the three main upper windows early 19th-century pieces by Read more

Description from tripadvisor

A breathtaking sight and a must-see if in Milan.  This structure took almost 500 years to build and is the fourth largest in Europe and the second... Read more

Description from frommers

When Milanese think something is taking too long, they refer to it as la fabricca del duomo -- the making of the Duomo, a reference to the 5 centuries it took to complete the magnificent Gothic cathedral that rises from the center of the city. (This turn of phrase could also describe the church's recent 5-year renovation, which kept the building behind scaffolding until 2007.) The last of Italy's Read more