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Florence's historic Baptistery begins six-year mosaic restoration
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Restorers launched a ground-breaking project in Florence's historic Baptistery, allowing visitors a unique view of magnificent mosaics, including a three-headed devil which inspired the Italian poet Dante. For the next six years, tourists will be able to climb a specially engineered, mushroom-shaped scaffold to examine up close to over 1,000 square meters of richly colored and gold biblical depictions in the dome. The ceiling of the octagonal Baptistery, which sits opposite the Duomo in Florence's historic center and which has hosted baptisms, including that of Dante Alighieri in 1266, was last restored over a century ago.

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