The first thing I noticed about the Cathedral is that is surprisingly bare. It was immense in size, but there were few decorations, especially when compared to how elaborately decorated the outside of the building is. Other churches that I have been to have contained many more frescos, statues, sculptures, and mosaics that the Cathedral. I would imagine this is because they were more concerned with how others perceived the church that the inside so it was constructed to be much more impressive on the outside that on the inside.
The Baptistry, on the other hand, looked nothing like the inside of the Cathedral. One of the most impressive things there was the ceiling which was decorated with depictions of many religious figures. I assume that back when these buildings were constructed, the Baptistry had more religious significance because that was where everyone took their babies to become free from original sin, and so much more time was spent into the appearance of the inside of the Baptistry than was spent on the inside of the Cathedral.
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