They are our equivalent of our medieval workers, devoting their entire careers to building a cathedral whose end they will never see.

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Their purchases enabled him to build a cathedral-like building that still stands in Lower Manhattan.

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Now, let's compress the cathedral-building to a year or two.

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And for all its splendour, the cathedral is a newish building for a newly revived institution, one that remembers being weak.

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The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.

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For more than a century Florence had been building the lavish cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, designed to showcase the city's wealth and power.

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Officials said the cathedral was a "modest" building which might be dominated by a large monument and they were keen to avoid anything which was a "pastiche".

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The building usually gets between 40 and 50 visitors a day but that increased to between 500 and 1, 000, a cathedral spokesman said.

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