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Rising above the central square that bears its name, the Duomo di Milano is the largest church in Italy after Saint Peter Basilica in Rome and the third largest in the world, a great pinnacled and statue-encrusted Gothic structure that took almost six centuries to complete. Construction began in 1386 under the orders of the Visconti duke Gian Galeazzo and was declared complete only in 1965, when the last bronze door was installed in the facade. The cathedral occupies the site of the much earlie...