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Rick Steves’ Europe: Climbing for Europe’s best views and a broader perspective
Rick Steves says Europe’s climbable landmarks offer sweeping views and a closer look at the history behind their design.
- Travel guide Rick Steves highlights Europe's climbable structures, from church domes to bell towers and sky-piercing monuments, revealing insights into historical, artistic, and religious thinking of their times.
- The dome's innovative design launched the architectural Renaissance when Florentines decided to build a dome at Florence's Duomo with a distinctive dome-within-a-dome construction that influenced European architecture.
- Climbers ascending the 463 steps encounter elaborate roof features including gargoyles, statues, spires, and Last Judgment ceiling paintings, with individual artworks carved from stone demonstrating meticulous craftsmanship.
- Artists embedded religious devotion into every detail, viewing their work as a "gift for God to enjoy from the heavens," merging spiritual purpose with artistic excellence throughout the structures.
- The Vatican demonstrated how art and science combined to create lasting beauty, with rooftop terraces allowing visitors to wander among decorative elements while viewing Florence's cathedral and third-largest church.
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Rick Steves’ Europe: Climbing for Europe’s best views and a broader perspective
From church domes to bell towers and fanciful rooftops to sky-piercing monuments, Europe is full of climbable structures. While most lead to impressive views, the best also offer insights into the historical, artistic, and religious thinking of their times. These…
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