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Cost and Hours:
€10 ticket covers all Duomo sights, also covered by Firenze Card,
daily 8:30-19:30, last entry 40 minutes before closing.
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Baptistery
Michelangelo saiditsbronzedoorswerefittobethegatesofparadise.Checkoutthegleam-
ing copies of Lorenzo Ghiberti's bronze doors facing the Duomo (the original panels are in
the Duomo Museum). Making a breakthrough in perspective, Ghiberti used mathematical
laws to create the illusion of receding distance on a basically flat surface.
