Fiesole - Piazza Mino da Fiesole

In the center of the town lies the broad Piazza Mino da Fiesole (named after the sculptor Mino da Fiesole, c. 1430-1484); this was the ancient forum, and on the north side stands the Duomo, the cathedral begun in 1028, extended in the 13th and 14th centuries and considerably altered in the 19th c. The Duomo San Romolo has been an episcopal church since the 11th century; its predecessor stood on the site of the present Badia Fiesolana.