flickr: Santa Maria del Fiore — the Florence Cathedral (vertorama)

Santa Maria del Fiore - the Florence Cathedral (vertorama)

we’re leav­ing Gub­bio (for now) and make a day trip to Flo­rence, in the beau­ti­fullest of weath­ers. it is quite a drive — I think it took about two and a half hours to get there. now by far the largest build­ing in Flo­rence is the Cathe­dral, so nat­u­rally our tour started there.

the Flo­rence Cathe­dral — very impres­sive on the out­side (the inside is rather plain except for the beau­ti­ful fres­coes on the inside of the cupola), and huge. you can go inside for free, but to work your­self up the 460-something steps to the top of the dome, you need to pay. go fig­ure. we did both any­way, and there really is a spec­tac­u­lar view over the whole city from up there; that is, once you catch your breath and your legs stop burn­ing so you can actu­ally enjoy the view…

no wide-angle set­ting on my cam­era was wide enough to fit the whole thing into the frame at once. sure, you can go back a bit into the streets extend­ing from the piazza, but then you have stu­pid houses block­ing your view. so I tried to do a ver­torama, just like Panorama Paul always does (look him up in my con­tacts, he makes some great pic­tures). since try­ing to stitch the two land­scape shots didn’t work really well — I got some straight lines, but every­thing was hor­ri­bly dis­torted — I rotated them into por­trait and did a reg­u­lar stitch. now the ver­ti­cals are all crooked, but I think it looks pretty neat. so there you are.

if you want to know more about the very inter­est­ing his­tory of the cathe­dral, check out its Wikipedia entry in Eng­lish or in Ger­man (which is more detailed).

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#995 September 19, 2008 – 11:03 pm | By Marcus | Posted in General | Comments (1)

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