the clean up job

Thank you, Jaap. The details of the Duomo exterior were so obscured by the accumulated grime of centuries, that its beauty, color and intricacy has been a rediscovery even for people like me who have lived in Florence for many years, and even for the Florentines themselves!

Considering the many visitors, this is probably a better method than building large scaffolding for it...

Actually they use both methods. There is currently one such scaffolding in another area. I think they used the cherry picker here because the corniche runs along the entire side horizontally. I saw it used also for cleaning out the "lantern" above the nearby Baptistry, which could not be reached by way of scaffolding. Thank you for your interest, Udo!

Vernazza a duomo :;-))