A Padlock, Me and the Duomo
Something a little different in Florence

The views are reason enough to climb the Duomo’s 463 stairs. Impressively, many Italian women manage this feat in heels. In unobtrusive corners in the stairwell I found marks left from the medieval builders. On descending I traversed the inner ceiling at the height of the gods, at times almost a hand’s breadth away from Vasari’s frescos.