3D print Palermo Cathedral
A free, printable model of Palermo Cathedral, a long church with a tall ribbed dome, small aisle domes and corner towers, among the surrounding city blocks, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 18 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
18 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Ribbed dome and small domes
A tall ribbed dome rises over the nave, with a row of small domes along the aisles. Print friendly adapts these curved details to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Slim corner towers
The corner towers are slim and end in small turreted tops. Printing slowly, with good cooling, helps these tall, thin parts hold their shape.
- One piece with the ground
Palermo Cathedral is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Palermo Cathedral takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About Palermo Cathedral
Palermo Cathedral serves as the cathedral church for Palermo's Roman Catholic archdiocese, in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, and it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary's Assumption. The complex mixes several styles because of centuries of additions, alterations and restorations; the latest was in the 18th century. Walter Ophamil, a Norman archbishop of Palermo who served King William II as minister, had the church erected in 1185 on the site of an earlier Byzantine basilica.
According to accounts, Pope Gregory I founded the earlier church; the Arabs, after conquering the city in the 9th century, made it a mosque. The medieval building followed a basilica plan with three apses. Later, the corner towers gained upper levels in the 14th and 15th centuries, and the southern porch was added in the early Renaissance period. The neoclassical appearance comes from work carried out between 1781 and 1801 under the supervision of Ferdinando Fuga and Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia. Fuga also designed the great dome and the smaller domes over the aisles.
Royal tombs in the right aisle include those of King Roger II, Queen Constance I of Sicily (his daughter), Emperor Henry VI (her husband) and Emperor Frederick II (their son). A golden tiara, the Crown of Constance of Sicily, found in her tomb in 1491, is kept in the Cathedral Treasury. The cathedral also has a meridian, built in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, an astronomer who directed the Observatory of Palermo and discovered Ceres, the first minor planet. One of the small domes has a tiny hole that turns the building into a pinhole camera, throwing an image of the sun on the floor.
About this model
Palermo Cathedral is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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