Filippo Brunelleschi found the answer: he built the dome as two shells, one inside the other, laying the brick in a herringbone pattern so the courses held themselves up without scaffolding. A staircase runs between the shells — that is how you climb to the top, 463 steps. Giotto’s bell tower stands beside it, and the baptistery with its golden doors faces it.
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