THE DUOMO DI MILANO... IN NUMBERS

“Towards dusk we drew near Milan and caught glimpses of the city […]
We were dying to see the renowned Cathedral! […] What wonder it is! So
grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate, so airy so graceful! […]”Mark Twain,
The Innocents Abroad
San Francisco, 1869
over 3,600 figures represented in the 55 stained glass windows
36,08924 square feet – internal surface area
100,000 weekly visitors to the Duomo, totaling over 6,000,000 per year
80% of tourists to Milan visit the Duomo
23% of the tourists come from the U.S.A.
82 billion euro is the economic value of the Cathedral to the city
110,000: annual hours of restoration
open 4,500 hours a year - that's over half the total number of hours a year
18: the number of active restoration sites open and operational at the Duomo in 2014