MILAN
Milan has always been described as an industrial city that is not particularly interesting to visit. But we live in Milan, and we can assure you that Milan has some beautiful parts you should absolutely see. On this page we show you some of these evocative but little-known treasures from history.
A drink at Bulloni, historical winery, under Prampolini's futuristic mosaic
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A visit to S.Maurizio Maggiore Church with its incredible frescoes
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The modern architecture of Giò Ponti (S.Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino church)
A walk in Parco Sempione to see the Sorelle Ghisini Bridge (Cast-Iron Sisters Bridge)
A walk in Parco Sempione to see the Sorelle Ghisini Bridge (Cast-Iron Sisters Bridge)
The Arco della Pace (Peace Arch). The charriot and the horses were turned in the direction of the capital of the country of the victorious army (Paris or Vienna)
Giuseppe Verdi's tomb in Casa Verdi.
“Among my works, the one I like best is the Home that I have had built in Milan for accommodating old singers not favored by fortune, or who, when they were young, did not possess the virtue of saving."
Castello Cova by architect Adolfo Coppedè, in Gothic-revival style (1910-1915)
Candiani's house in via Vico (1882-1885). Designed by the architect Luigi Broggi, it features an Egyptian-style temple inspired by Giuseppe Verdi's opera AIDA in the courtyard.
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker by Antonio Canova (1806). Napoleon didn't like it because it was "too athletic".
The monument dedicated to the Five Days of Milano (popular uprising against the Austrians in 1848). it took the sculpturer Giuseppe Grandi 15 years to complete it (1881-1896) but he died three months before the official inauguration. In order to make animal figures as life-like as possible he bought a real eagle and a live lion (with lion tamer !) all of whom he put up at his house. As for the five female figures he based them on five girls he saw in the streets and liked.
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