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Milan Duomo

Milan's Duomo is the largest church in Italy (St. Peter's is technically in Vatican City) and one of the most ambitious building projects in European history. It took nearly six centuries to complete, from the first ston…

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Ambrosian Library (Accademia Ambrosiana)

The Ambrosian Library is one of the oldest public libraries in Europe and a treasure house of art and manuscripts in the centre of Milan. Founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo on September 7, 1607, it was among the first…

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Teatro alla Scala

La Scala is one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, a temple of music where the greatest composers and performers have graced the stage since 1778. The theatre was designed by neoclassical architect Giuse…

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Castello Sforzesco

Castello Sforzesco is a massive Renaissance fortress in the heart of Milan, originally built as a military stronghold and later transformed into one of the most splendid ducal palaces in Italy. Today, it houses multiple …

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Palazzo dei Giureconsulti

The Palazzo dei Giureconsulti is a Renaissance gem hiding in plain sight, tucked into Piazza Mercanti just steps from the Duomo. Built beginning in 1562, the palace was designed by architect Vincenzo Seregni and funded b…

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Cripta di San Sepolcro

Beneath the streets of Milan lies one of the city's most extraordinary hidden treasures: the Cripta di San Sepolcro. Founded in 1030 by Benedetto Rozzone, a Milanese mint master, on the site of the ancient Roman Forum of…

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Palazzo Carmagnola

Palazzo Carmagnola has lived more lives than most buildings dream of. Originally a 15th-century Visconti residence, it gained fame in 1415 when Duke Filippo Maria Visconti gave it to Carmagnola, a celebrated military com…

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Imperial Palace of Maximian

Most visitors walking through central Milan have no idea they are strolling over the ruins of a Roman imperial palace. When Emperor Diocletian relocated the capital of the Western Roman Empire from Rome to Mediolanum (Mi…

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Casa Atellani

Casa Atellani is a Renaissance mansion with an extraordinary secret in its backyard: Leonardo da Vinci's vineyard. Located on Corso Magenta near Santa Maria delle Grazie (where Leonardo painted the Last Supper), this ele…

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Monumento a Sandro Pertini

The Monumento a Sandro Pertini is a striking piece of contemporary design honoring Italy's seventh and arguably most beloved president. Designed by the legendary architect Aldo Rossi and inaugurated on May 1, 1990, the m…

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Casa Manzoni

Casa Manzoni at Via Morone 1 is where one of Italy's greatest novels was born. Alessandro Manzoni, author of "I Promessi Sposi" (The Betrothed), lived in this elegant palazzo from 1813 until his death in 1873. He moved h…

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Casa degli Omenoni

Casa degli Omenoni is one of the most startling buildings in Milan: eight colossal stone giants stare down at you from the facade, and you cannot help but stare back. The palazzo was designed around 1565 by sculptor Leon…

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Ancient Gates of Porta Ticinese

The Medieval Porta Ticinese is one of only three surviving medieval gates from Milan's 12th-century defensive walls, a remarkable relic in a city where most fortifications disappeared long ago. Built to protect Milan fro…

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Columns of St. Lawrence

Sixteen magnificent Roman columns standing in front of the Basilica of San Lorenzo form one of Milan's most dramatic connections to the ancient world. Dating from the 2nd or 3rd century AD, these Corinthian columns rise …

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Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio

The Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio is built on one of Christianity's most extraordinary legends: that it once held the relics of the Three Magi, the wise men who visited the infant Jesus. According to tradition, Bishop Eusto…

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