In a workshop in the Milan suburbs, sculptor Giovanni Calderino completes his latest project -- a battered statue from the top of the Italian city's gothic cathedral, and its gleaming white ...

Occupying the Piazza del Duomo in the heart of the city ... iconic dome and the intricate marble statues on its facade staring down at you. The red-tiled cupola was designed by Brunelleschi ...

Designed by Giotto in the early 14th century, this ornate 277-foot high bell tower is part of the renowned Duomo in central ... plenty of time admiring the statues and reliefs by such famed ...

Depicting a bearded man wearing a tunic, the marble statue has adorned one of the Duomo's 135 spires for two centuries. But decades of harsh weather, pollution and the bombings of the Second World ...