Italy: Plot to blow up Milan Cathedral

Europe News DK ^

[Cronos]

I don’t know, why didn’t we nke mecca in 2001?

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Milan's Duomo is the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world: only the cathedral of Seville is larger (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome doesn't count because it's not a cathedral). It is 157 meters long— 40,000 people can fit comfortably within."

Of the top of your head, you don't know the great cathedrals of Europe.

[1rudeboy]

Maybe. I’ve only been there seven or eight times. And hung over.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"It will make a nice mosque."

Yeah, once they pull down all those statues, many of which are structurally integral, physically carved from supporting walls and turrets.

Won't be the first time. I remember seeing a Cathedral in --- I think it was Alkmaar, Holland? ---- where hundreds of statues of saints were pulled down and smashed -- by Calvinists.

These thrifty folk didn't want to spend the money for scaffolds to get up to the higher tiers and pull down the ones near the roof, so they left them there. Turned the church into a cheese warehouse. The 16th century: not the best of times.