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Como - The Dome seen from the side orients them of the public square, where in a single block, they are kinsmen the Dome, the Broletto and the Tower of city.
The dome of Como is the last one of the gotiche cathedral constructed in Lombardy: it was begun in 1396, ten years after the foundation of the dome of Milan.
In the three centuries and means been necessary for its definitive fulfillment were asserted you vary styles benchè that one dominant remains the original one,that is the late gotico-rinascimentale.

The plan begins them (1396) must to Lorenzo of Spazzi di Laini d' Intelvi, but it then came in part modified from Pietro di Breggio (Como) and from other successes to you artists.
The inside of the dome is divided in three navate from ten cruciform pillars with arches pointed of various amplitude and times to cruise.

Between the many works of art that adorn the inside signal to the cinquecenteschi tapestries, to insigne paintings of Gauedenzio Ferrari, of Bernardino Luini, of the Morazzone (sec. XVI-XVII), to it frescoes of sacrestia (the first half of the XVII sec.), and the sculptures of Rodari.
The Dome is along 87 meters, the navate ones, comprised the greater nails head are wide 36 and 58 meters, the cupola is high 75 meters and the guglia of the facade it is to 45 meters from the pavement of the public square.

The cupola was planned from Filippo Juvara (1687-1736), architect of the king of Sardinia.
The glass window, nineteenth-century, they have been realized on design of Giuseppe and Pompeo Bertini.