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The dome, designed by Michelangelo |
This is the largest free-standing dome in the world. It is not spherical, but conical, loading all of its weight vertically onto 4 pillars, rather than loading laterally like a spherical dome would. Inside it is richly decorated. The lantern of the dome is 394 feet above the city.
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