Baptistry Restoration Site Tour

Hi - While you're waiting for firsthand responses this recent thread might be helpful, especially the post from Nancy8.

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/tour-of-florence-baptistery-s-restoration-site

If it helps to know this, you go up one flight of stairs, then walk on a level landing, then up another flight --- maybe there are five such landings total? Single file, and I chose to be among the last of the group in case I had to stop and rest a bit (but I didn't). Anyway, it's not just up and up and up without any break.

Thanks, Nancy
Once you’re up those five flights, is that as far as you go? It looks like that is at the level of the base of the mosaics. Is there a platform there or can you describe what is up there. Can’t really tell from images online.

Well, it's strangely difficult to tell you for sure what it was like up there! You don't go all the way around (I think they are restoring it in sections rather than one level at a time), there's some kind of fabric net thing stretching all the way around under you, you are focussed on the mosaics right in front of your eyes so it's actually hard to pick out where we were (no photography allowed) but I know we saw the saved souls looking like children in the laps of saints and across the way was the ship, and I am pretty sure that there is a scaffolding ceiling above you as you walk along the mosaics so you only get glimpses of the whole ceiling. I could have easily spent a couple of hours up there. It's more about being really up close to the mosaics than about getting a better view of the ceiling from what you get from the floor. Did you look at the photos and videos on youtube?

I have. And I think we’ll go ahead and do it. Thanks for your help.