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                                                            MILAN CATHEDRAL




Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano) is the cathedral church of Milan in Lombardy, northern
Italy.

It is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan.

The cathedral is significant in the promulgation of the Christian faith, for its role in the establish-
ment of Catholic traditions of worship, its outstanding musical heritage and the splendour of its
Gothic architecture.

Built from the late 14th well into the 19th century (and in a sense, never completed, as work
continues), the Duomo di Milano is one of the world's largest churches, being second in size within
Italy only to Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and being the second largest Gothic cathedral in the
world, after the Cathedral of Seville in Spain.

The interior height of its central nave is surpassed only by the remaining choir of Beauvais Cathedral
in France.