r/europe • u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia • 9h ago

On this day On 30th August, 1436 the construction of the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence was finished, 16 years after architect Filippo Brunelleschi laid the first stone.

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u/Sendflutespls Denmark 9h ago

Pretty wild we made this 650 years ago while some newly build homes in the western world are still tornado bait. I'm looking at you America.

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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 9h ago

What do you mean matchstick houses shouldn't be built in a place dubbed "Tornado Alley"?

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u/awood20 1h ago

650 years? New Grange, in Ireland, is built around 3100BC, older than the pyramids and stone henge and is so accurately built that the rising sun on the winter solstice shines through a specifically built roof box.

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u/Sendflutespls Denmark 1h ago

I feel this just underscore my point. Pretty amazing actually. We build to last. Newer stuff is a bit more flimsy, but still leagues apart from the tree forts they put up in America.

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u/awood20 1h ago

Yeah, that was my aim.

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u/VigorousElk 8h ago

Do you know what percentage of people's incomes, public funds or even GDP went into such medieval construction projects? The cost was absolutely massive relatively speaking.

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u/Sendflutespls Denmark 8h ago

I dunno, much probably. But my small house are pretty cheap and still built with brick and mortar, inside out, all the way through. In America it is just sticks with cardboard painted with a brick pattern. I never understood that.

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u/Patient_Moment_4786 France 8h ago

A particular game OST played in my head.

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u/Assblaster_69z 3h ago

Jesper Kyd is a genius

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u/paglutanja 8h ago

and today they take 5 years to repair 1 mile road

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u/Oriane_Lle 7h ago

Taking 16 years just to finish the dome? Well, that's still faster than my WiFi trying to load a 4K video.

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u/Agile-Assist-4662 Canada 3h ago

I climbed the dome to the cupola December, 2005. I had been solo travelling in Italy for a month at that point so I was gassed by the time I made it to the top....so worth it. Cold out, but I was sweating lol.

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u/Julehus Scania 2h ago

One of the most majestic buildings I’ve ever seen👌

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u/Utstein Norway 7m ago

Didn't they quarrel for  years afterwards or before on the design of the thing on top of the dome?

I seem to remember that from an art book.