“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

 

3,400 statues

200 bas reliefs

135 spires

over 3,600 figures represented in the 55 stained glass windows

150 gargoyles

518.37 feet - external length

305.12 feet - external width

325,000 tons – total weight

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