What exactly is up in the cupola top of Bellagio? We recently stayed on the 48th floor of the Vdara with a great view of it. What a cool place for a small wedding!
The definition of a cupola is "a hollow frame that protrudes up from the roof of a building," essentially an upside-down cup.
And that's exactly what the cupola, or dome, or rotunda, atop Bellagio is: a hollow protuberance. In other words, nothing is up there. Neither is anything inside the cupola that sits at the top of the Bellagio sign.
Furthermore, last time we checked, no one goes up there, except maintenance workers, who clean them from time to time, and one reporter that we know of, Michael Venables, a contributor to Forbes.com. Veneables took a photo through one of the dome's windows of the under-construction High Roller observation wheel, whose rim had just been completed, on August 23, 2013.
But we agree, both architectural elements have a subtle beauty and add cool touches to the Bellagio tower and pylon sign. We're not sure how functional they are; cupolas originally served as inlets for light and outlets for ventilation, helping to keep barns, mostly, cool and dry (giving the hot, humid, and smelly air from the barn floor a place to diffuse into the greater atmosphere).
Though we suspect the wedding would have to be quite intimate, as the cupola probably doesn't fit more than a dozen or so people comfortably.
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Kenneth Mytinger
Nov-03-2022
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