Discover Milan – The city you do not expect
Discover Milan – It is the kind of city that welcomes people like a mother would even with those who aren’t her very own children and nurtures them. Milan’s Madonnina protects the metropolis below her and when the light shines right, you can see the statue blinking from the Alps. As a song from a Milanese rock band goes, in Milan “it can rain notwithstanding the sun”: a place of possibilities, never a black-or-white sentence. Milan enables her inhabitants to move around, set the grinds of society to work and she even repays her children for their hard days with stunning sunsets – especially if you admire them for the Navigli. The bond one develops with this city is a sort of umbilical cord that will never be severed, not even in case you should decide to leave Milan behind – you’ll say goodbye, she’ll reply see you soon. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
NAVIGLI
Do you love water so much one could suppose that there’s water running through your veins instead of red blood? Then the Navigli area is the place for you: lively and exciting during summer, it changes into the perfect foggy setting for a noir novel in winter. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
VILLA NECCHI CAMPIGLIO
Villa Necchi is a jewel of a building in the heart of the city. Designed by Pietro Portalupi between 1932 and 1935, it reflects the architect’s passage from Art Decò to Rationalism. Today it belong to FAI and it’s a museum worth visiting. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
INVERNIZZI VILLA
This somewhat classical palace in Corso Venezia is a must-see thanks to its garden: it serves as home to a colony of ducks, peacocks and flamingos. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
PINACOTECA AMBROSIANA
This museum located in Piazza Pio XI takes its visitors to a journey through different artistic ages and styles: from Leonardo’s Musico to Caravaggio’s Canestra di Frutta, the preparatory sketches of Raffaello, Tiziano’s reds and Botticelli’s Madonna. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
CIMITERO MONUMENTALE
Designed by Carlo Maciachini, this cemetery is a combination of Byzantine and Gothic architectures. There are so many statues and works of art inside this eternal home, that the place is rightfully considered a full-fledged museum. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
CASA GALIMBERTI
There’s a wonderful palace in Via Malpighi 3, its façades covered with majolica decorations and wrought iron designed by Bossi. The first floor’s decorations depict women while the other floors’ majolica represent flowery motifs. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
IDRO MONTANELLI PUBLIC GARDENS
Not far from Porta Venezia there are these public gardens. They once belonged to the Dugnani family, but they were subsequently transformed into a zoo which remained open until 1992. Ten years later, the area was renamed in honor of the Italian writer and today it comprises: the Dugnani Palace, the Museum of Cinema and the Museum of Natural History. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
COLUMNS OF SAN LORENZO
These sixteen marble columns in front of the Basilica of San Lorenzo were erected during the Middle Age, when Milan was known as Mediolanum. They are especially loved by the citizens because the simple fact of their standing is a proof of Milan’s resilience during the centuries: the city had to withstand the Goths, Frederik I’s invasion and reign and WW2 bombings. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
VERTICAL FOREST
Milan went green thanks to Boeri Studio’s residential area (Isola block), a revolutionary and ecological project that sees two skyscrapers designed to alternate flats for human living and more than two thousands trees and bushes. The aim of this ambitious project is to enhance and protect biodiversity in Milan. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
SAN CRISTOFORO CHURCH
Located on the Naviglio Grande, this complex was built in the XV century and it served as a lighthouse signaling sailors (merchants or others, mainly coming from Ticino) they were approaching the city of Milan. Indeed in the Middle Age Saint Christopher was revered as saint patron of travelers and ferrymen. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF BRERA
In Brera, Milan’s heart, there is this decadent garden, its botanical section housing more than 300 different species of flowers and plants.
As you probably gathered reading this article, Milan is everything but the gray, lifeless metropolis too often described in popular culture – just come and see her beauty for yourself!
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