• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

tickitaly's blog

Italian tickets - museums, galleries, exhibitions and events.

tickitaly's blog
  • Book tickets now >
  • Blog start
  • About us
  • Privacy

Florence Cathedral – Secrets of Giotto’s Belltower

2018-11-15 By Tickitaly

by Tickitaly
2018-11-152018-11-14Filed under:
  • All Posts
  • Florence

Florence Cathedral – Secrets of Giotto’s Belltower

After a couple of years of detailed study, scanning and exploration, it appears that Giotto’s magnificent Campanile del Duomo, the Cathedral belltower, has been hiding a few things all these years. Using penetrating-radar techniques, the less glamorous (though remarkably advanced for the time) discovery is that the builders were given toilets (now hidden behind walls) to use.

The slightly-more glamorous discovery is another secret room, one that looks likely to have been a treasure-room, with objects lowered down on a grille into the hidden space. The cathedral was built upon an existing church, and it is the treasures from there that would have been safely hidden while construction work was going on.

These discoveries came to light during analysis of the general health of the tower, especially in the light of recent earthquakes, and it generally got a remarkably positive score-card, thanks notably to the ‘lighter on top’ construction.

Florence Cathedral – tickets and guided tours

Post navigation

Previous Post 2019 – The Year Of Leonardo da Vinci
Next Post Leonardo da Vinci, Self Portrait On Show In 2019

Primary Sidebar

NAVIGATION

  • Book tickets now!
  • Blog home
  • Florence
  • Milan
  • Rome
  • Venice
  • Verona

Categories

  • All Posts
  • Exhibitions
  • Florence
    • Bargello
    • Boboli Gardens
    • Medici Chapels
    • Michelangelo's David
    • Palatine Gallery
    • Palazzo Vecchio
    • Pitti Palace
    • Uffizi
  • Italy in general
    • Bocelli
  • Milan
    • The Last Supper
  • Other cities
  • Pisa
  • Pompeii & around
  • Rome
    • Borghese Gallery
    • Colosseum
    • Vatican
  • Sicily
  • Siena
  • tickitaly.com
  • Venice
  • Verona
    • Arena

Copyright tickitaly.com © 2025