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Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Situated in a monastery of the Olivetani monks, which was built in the early sixteenth century, it covers about 40.000 sm and is the biggest Museum of Science and Technology in Italy. Its collections (about 10.000 items) represent the scientific and technological evolution and explore le complex relationship man-machine dating from Leonardo da Vinci. |
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Via S. Vittore 21 Tel. 02/ 485551
M2 S. Ambrogio / M1 Cadorna
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Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
The “Musico” by Leonardo, the “Cartone raffaellesco” from “La scuola di Atene”, the “Canestra di frutta” by Caravaggio: these are just some of the art treasures kept in the most ancient Milanese museum. |
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Piazza Pio XI 2 Telefono 02 806921
M3 Duomo / M1 Cordusio
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Museo del Duomo
It’s the Museum of the Milan’s Cathedral. It keeps the most lively and direct documentation of the origins and main phases of the famous building, the most singular testimonies of its long life: studies, original projects of changes and adds. |
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Piazza del Duomo 14 Tel. 02 860358
M1/M2 Duomo / Bus 54
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Museo del Risorgimento
The rich collection of paintings, relics and prints, kept at the Museum of the Risorgimento depicts that period of Italian history dating from Napoleon Bonaparte’s first campaign in Italy in1796 to the annexion of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy in 1870. |
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Via Borgonuovo, 23 Tel. 02 884 64177 / 64176
MM2 Lanza / MM3 Montenapoleone / Tram 1-2 / Bus 41-61-94
www.museodelrisorgimento.mi.it |
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Pinacoteca di Brera
Ancient and modern art gallery, it is situated in the big baroque palace of Brera (where Giuseppe Parini lived and died). It offers a complete vision of the pictorial history of Lombardy, recently reorganised in a new arrangement path and it hosts the Accademia delle Belle Arti. |
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Via Brera, 28 Tel. 02722631
M2 Lanza / M3 Montenapoleone / Tram 1-4-8-12-14-27 / Bus 61-97
www.brera.beniculturali.it |
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Museo di Milano
On the first floor of Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini, it is divided into two paths: the Art Gallery, which gathers the rooms towards the inner court of the building and the eighteenth century rooms of the Morando Attendolo Bolognini apartment which face via Sant'Andrea.
The Art Gallery keeps an important iconographic collection of the public and private life of the city of Milan between the XVIIth and the XIXth centuries. |
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Via Sant'Andrea, 6 Tel. 02 884 65933 / 64176
MM1 San Babila / MM3 Montenapoleone / Tram 1-2 / Bus 94
www.museodimilano.mi.it |
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Museo di Storia Contemporanea
The Museum of Contemporary History intensely promotes culture by organising exhibitions, congresses, debates related to contemporary history and many initiatives in historical and economic-social grounds. |
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Via Sant'Andrea, 6 Tel. 02 884 65933 / Tel. 02 76006964
MM1 San Babila / MM3 Montenapoleone / Tram 1-2 / Bus 94
www.museodistoriacontemporanea.it |
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Museo Poldi Pezzoli
The museum hosts several precious collections of glasses, weapons, fine goldsmith items, sculptures, tapestry, laces, embroideries. |
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Via Alessandro Manzoni 12 Tel. 02 796334
M3 Montenapoleone, M1 Duomo / Bus 94 - 61
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Duomo di MIlano
It is a representative example of the flowery Gothic style built by the will of Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo and Milan’s Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti. For its dimensions it is the second highest church in the world (after the Beauvais Cathedral in France) and the third biggest one (after San Pietro in Vatican and the Cathedral of Siviglia). A walk around the Cathedral offers the opportunity of appreciating the infinite number of sculptures, gargoyles, pinnacles (145) and rampant archs. In 1774 the golden Madonnina, symbol of the city, was set on the dome pinnacle (108 mt high). |
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Piazza Duomo Tel. 02 8603587 - 86463456
M1/M2 Duomo / Bus 54
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Chiesa di San Babila
The church, which was built on the ruins of a basilica dating from the IVth century a.C., has been modified from time to time. The restoration in the XXth century has set it back to its originary romanic shapes. On March, 8th, 1785 Alessandro Manzoni was baptized between these walls. On the churchyard, the “Colonna del Leone” (column of the lion) by Giuseppe Robecco (1626), was erected by the will of the powerful Milanese family of Serbelloni Dukes as the emblem of the ancient district of Porta Orientale. |
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Corso Monforte 1 Tel 02 76002877
MM1 San Babila / Bus 54-60-61-65-73
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Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio
This church is the symbol of Milan, and its history entwines with that of the city. It was built in 379 and sacred in 387, by the will of Saint Ambrogio, patron of Milan, who was elected bishop December, 7th 373, holiday of the city. |
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Piazza Sant'Ambrogio 15 Tel. 02/86450895
M2 Sant'Ambrogio / Bus 50, 54, 58, 94.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
Two immortal artists have given this temple to civilisation: Donato Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci. It was built between 1466 and 1490 on a project by architect Guiniforte Solari; some years later Ludovico il Moro (“The Moor”) called Bramante in order to reconstruct the apse leaving the sign of his own style in the great tribune, an example of the Renaissance spatial architecture. It was the great architect from Urbino again who realised other two jewels of the church: the Cloister and the Old Sacristy. In the refectory of the ancient domenican convent Leonardo realised the famous “Cena”, started in 1494 and finished about two years later. |
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Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie Tel. 02 46761123 - 02 89421146
M1 Cadorna, M2 Cadorna Triennale
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Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
The basilica is the most ancient witness of the Roman and paloechristian Milan which has survived in almost perfect conditions. The original structure dates from the end of the Ivth, beginning of Vth centuries. After uncountable fires and collapses it was restored several times (1911, 1916, 1937-38). The eighteenth century façade is crowned by the majestic eight-sided dome of the late sixteenth century, the biggest in Milan. |
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Corso di Porta Ticinese 39 Tel. 02 89404129
Tram 3-15 / Bus 94
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Chiesa Sant’Eustorgio
Here lied the supposed tomb of the Magi, until Federico Barbarossa pillaged it. Today the bell tower is still surmounted by a star, instead of a cross, as a remembrance of this event. |
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Piazza Sant'Eustorgio 1 Tel. 02 58101583
Bus 59 - 71
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Castello Sforzesco
It was built in 1450 by Francesco Sforza. A door leads to the Duke Court, of rectangular shape and with an arcade on three sides. On the opposite side you can see la Rocchetta, the most storm-proof area of the castle, in which the Sforzas refuged in case of an attack. The rooms of the castle host the City Museums. |
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Piazza Castello Tel. 02 88463700
M1 Cadorna e Cairoli, M2 Cadorna e Lanza
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Cimitero Monumentale
It’s an artwork by architect Carlo Maciachini, realised between 1863 and 1866, it is an extraordinary open air Museum. Among monuments, statues, aedicules and chapels, many important sculptors and architects have left significative signs. Arrigo Boito, Luigi Cagnola, Arturo Toscanini, Alessandro Manzoni, Salvatore Quasimodo, Carlo Forlanini, Carlo Cattaneo, Amilcare Ponchielli, Francesco Hayez. are among the famous citizens who are buried here. The newly added tombs are those of: Eugenio Montale, Generale Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Elio Vittorini, Luigi Barzini, Piero Bottoni, Luigi Veronesi, Guido Venosta, Angelo Salmoiraghi, Gino Alemagna, Angelo Motta, Ludovico Geymonat, Giulio Ricordi, Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Pizzoni, Filippo Corridoni. |
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P.le Cimitero Monumentale Tel. 02 88465600
M2 Garibaldi / Bus 43 - 52 - 70 Tram: 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 14, 29, 30, 33
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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
It’s a cross-shaped hall dating from the half of the nineteenth century, covered by a glass and iron vault, where its longest side (106 mt) connects piazza della Scala and piazza Duomo. It was designed by Giuseppe Mengoni (who died falling from a scaffolding during the works), the "glass path" took 700.000 work days. In the Gallery there are many luxury shops with prestigious brands and famous coffee bars and restaurants. It is considered a centre for luxury shops in Milan. |
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Accessi da: pzz Duomo, via Foscolo, pzz della Scala, via Pellico
M1 - M3 Duomo / Bus 61
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Colonne di San Lorenzo
Sixteen marble columns with Corinthian capitals, which support the trabeation of a IIIrd centruy a.C roman building, were brought in front of the homonymous basilica at the end of the IVth century b.C. They are one of the rare Roman relics of Milan. Many young people consider meeting at the Columns a consolidated habit, because there are pubs by tens, some of which are considered very fashionable, in the proximities of the monument. |
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Rotonda della Besana
The plant of S. Michele ai Nuovi Sepolcri, also called Foppone dell'Ospedale or Rotonda (Round church) della Besana. The Rotonda is the most original work of art of the Eighteenth century in Milan. Its architecture is singular: around the four-arm church with the central octagone surmounted by a dome, stand a harmonic rounded arcade. The building, Church and Cemetery, was raised between 1713 and 1725. In 1809 Eugenio Beauharnais wanted to turn it into the Kingdom of Italy’s Pantheon, but financial reasons caused this project, formerly commissioned to Luigi Cagnola, to be put aside. After a long time of diverse utilisations, today the restored Rotonda is the seat of art events. |
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Via Besana Enrico, 12 Tel. 02 5455236
M1 San Babila / Tram 9-12-20-23-27-29-30 / Bus 60-73-77-84 |
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Arco della pace
The Arch is situated at the centre of the ample Piazza Sempione. This monument is an example of different historical art styles, it was started in 1807 by Luigi Cagnola during the maximum Napoleonic euphoria. The architect had already built two thirds of the monument, when, after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, he had to stop the works. In 1826 Francesco I of Austria ordered the finishing of the monument and dedicated it to Peace, as a remembrance of the European Peace Treaty of 1815. After Cagnola’s death in 1833, Francesco Peverelli and Francesco Londonio finished it. Emperor Ferdinando I d'Austria wanted to inaugurate it himself on September, 10th 1838. The most spectacular element of the Arch’s rich decoration (25 m. high) is the Sestiga della Pace, a bronze statue by Abbondio Sangiorgio. |
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Villa Reale (Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte)
The villa, which is situated in Via Palestro at the corner with Via Marina, is one of the most important testinonies of the Milanese neoclassical style. It was built by Leopoldo Pollack (1790) for Count Lodovico Barbiano from Belgioioso, and was bought by Repubblica Cisalpina, which gave it to Napoleon. Bonaparte lived there with Josephine; it became then the residence of Eugenio Beauharnais, and later of general Radetzky. The richest part of the building is the back, which faces the pictoresque English garden with an elegant design of columns and pillars on an ashlar floor. The inner official rooms, hosting the Modern Art Gallery, are decorated with frescoes, furniture, statues, candleholders and other items which can suggest the visitor the furnishing of a Lombardian house in the Neoclassical age. |
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Via Palestro 16 Tel. 02-76340809
MM1 Palestro / Bus 94
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Palazzo Reale
Between 1772 and 1778, the Austrian government set a new residence for archduke Ferdinando d'Austria by re-using the walls of the Spanish period at Broletto Vecchio, once the seat of the first municipal institutions and later house of Charles V’s governors. Architect Piermarini called many famous contemporary decorators for this work: Martin Knoller, Giuliano Traballesei, Giuseppe Franchi, Giocondo Albertolli and, for the furniture, Giuseppe Maggiolini. Unluckily the bombings of 1943 highly damaged the palace; the Sala delle Cariatidi and the frescoes by Appiani were completely destroyed. Thanks to an attentive and complex project of restoration and remaking (2000-2006), the Royal Palace has found its ancient brightness. |
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Piazza Duomo 12 Tel 02 875672
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