After eighteen years of interventions, the restoration of the tiburium of Milan Cathedral has been completed, a crucial step in the long conservation program involving the Milanese cathedral. The completion of the work marks an important phase for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo and for European architectural heritage protection practices, with the gradual removal of the scaffolding that had shrouded the top of the monument since 2008.
The work site covered first the Main Spire and, starting in 2017, the tiburium, with a total extension of more than eight hundred square meters of restored surfaces. The organization of the work revolved around a scaffolding system of particular complexity, flanking the traditional external structures with an internal scaffolding suspended in the void, placed about sixty meters above the High Altar and anchored through the cathedral’s large windows.
