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Top 10 sights in Milan

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   Milan Cathedral

   Begun in 1386 and declared finished in 1965, and the largest church in Italy. A hundred and thirty-five spires and something over three thousand statues cover it, and the roof is open to walk on — the only cathedral in Europe where you stand among the pinnacles.

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   Santa Maria delle Grazie

   A Dominican church with a tribune added by Bramante in the 1490s, but people come for the refectory next door, where Leonardo painted the Last Supper between 1495 and 1498. A bomb destroyed the rest of that room in August 1943; the wall with the painting on it was sandbagged and survived.

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   Sforza Castle

   The Sforza fortress of the 1450s, rebuilt after Napoleon and again after 1945, now holding several museums. Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà — his last work, abandoned days before his death and barely emerged from the block — is shown alone in a bare room.

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   Pinacoteca di Brera

   The city's main picture gallery, founded in 1809 out of Napoleon's confiscations from suppressed churches. Mantegna's Dead Christ, foreshortened from the soles of the feet, and Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin are the two nobody walks past.

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   Piazzale Loreto

   Square in Milan where the bodies of Mussolini and his companions were displayed in April 1945. It is now a busy traffic junction with a metro interchange beneath.

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   Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio

   The church Ambrose built for himself between 379 and 386, when he was bishop of a city that was then an imperial capital. The present Romanesque building of the eleventh century became the model for Lombard architecture, and Ambrose's skeleton lies in the crypt in a glass case.

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   Mediolanum

   The Roman city on this site, which served as capital of the Western Empire from 286 to 402 — Milan, not Rome, was where the empire was governed for over a century. Constantine issued the edict tolerating Christianity here in 313.

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   piazza del Duomo

   The square in front of the cathedral, cleared in the nineteenth century to give the building air. The Galleria's glass arcade opens off one corner, the royal palace closes another, and the whole space is where Milan holds its arguments and its football celebrations.

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   Museo Poldi Pezzoli

   A house museum on Via Manzoni built from the collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, who inherited money and spent it well. Piero del Pollaiolo's profile portrait of a young woman is its emblem, along with arms, clocks and Persian carpets.

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    Monza Cathedral

    The main church of Monza, half an hour north, whose chapel holds the iron crown of Lombardy — a gold circlet with an iron band said to be beaten from a nail of the Crucifixion. Charlemagne and Napoleon were both crowned with it.

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   San Bernardino alle Ossa

   A church in Milan known for the small ossuary chapel decorated with human skulls and bones. A room to hold the bones was built in 1210 when the cemetery beside it ran out of space, and the church was added in 1269.

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   Torre Velasca

   A tower of 1958 by the BBPR partnership, a hundred and six metres high and wider at the top than the bottom, its silhouette taken from the medieval Lombard tower. Milan disliked it for decades and now protects it.

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   via Monte Napoleone

   The luxury shopping street of Milan, and as of 2024 the most expensive retail street in the world by rent. It is the spine of the Quadrilatero della Moda, lined with the boutiques of the best-known designers and shoemakers.

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   Royal Palace of Milan

   The seat of Milanese government for centuries, remodelled in the 1770s and gutted by bombing in 1943. The restored rooms now hold the city's large temporary exhibitions, and the scars of the war have been left visible in one hall.

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   Basilica of San Lorenzo

   Church in Milan founded in the fourth century, with sixteen Roman columns standing in front of it. Its octagonal plan influenced Byzantine church building.

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   Parco Sempione

   Park in Milan of 1888, laid out in the English manner on the former hunting grounds of the Sforza. The Triennale exhibition hall and a 108-metre steel tower of 1933 stand in it.

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   Santa Maria presso San Satiro

   A church of the 1480s whose site left no room for a choir behind the altar, so Bramante painted one — a coffered apse in perspective that is barely a metre deep and reads as several. It is the earliest surviving architectural trompe l'oeil of its kind.

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   Museo del Novecento

   A museum of twentieth-century Italian art in the Arengario on the cathedral square, opened in 2010. Its core is Futurism — Boccioni, Balla, Carrà — and its top-floor window looks straight at the cathedral, which the hanging makes use of.

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   Triennale di Milano

   The design museum in the Palazzo dell'Arte of 1933 in Parco Sempione, and the institution behind the triennial exhibitions that made Italian design a category. Its permanent display runs from the Vespa to the Arco lamp.

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    San Carlo al Corso

    A neoclassical church of 1847 off Corso Vittorio Emanuele, its rotunda modelled on the Pantheon and fronted by a colonnade. It was built as a thank-offering after the cholera epidemic of 1836, and its dome is the second largest in Milan.

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