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The Arco della Pace is a triumphal arch in Milan located at the beginning of Corso Sempione. The first stone was laid in 1807 when Milan was the capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy; the works were then suspended with the fall of Bonaparte (1814) and resumed in 1826 under the Austrians who dedicated the arch to the peace between European nations achieved in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna; it was finally inaugurated on 10 September 1838 with a sumptuous ceremony presided over by the newly crowned Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. It had its definitive consecration in 1859 with the entry into Milan of Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II after the victory of Magenta. The Arch of Peace is one of the major neoclassical monuments in Milan.
2. Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral, or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary, is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary, it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Archbishop Mario Delpini.
3. Santa Maria delle Grazie
Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, northern Italy, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The convent contains the mural of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, which is in the refectory.
4. Pinacoteca di Brera
The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
5. Museum of the Cenacolo of leonardo da vinci
The Last Supper is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John – specifically the moment after Jesus announces that one of his apostles will betray him. Its handling of space, mastery of perspective, treatment of motion and complex display of human emotion has made it one of the Western world's most recognizable paintings and among Leonardo's most celebrated works. Some commentators consider it pivotal in inaugurating the transition into what is now termed the High Renaissance.
6. North American FIAT F–86 K
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest jet-to-jet battles in history. Considered one of the best and most important fighter aircraft in that war, the F-86 is also rated highly in comparison with fighters of other eras. Although it was developed in the late 1940s and was outdated by the end of the 1950s, the Sabre proved versatile and adaptable and continued as a front-line fighter in numerous air forces.
7. Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
The football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy is commonly known by Internazionale fans as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza and by AC Milan fans as the San Siro. It has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadiums in Europe, and the largest in Italy.
8. Torre di Massimiano
The Roman walls of Milan were a walls equipped with towers who had different construction phases during the Roman era. A first phase took place in the republican era and a second after 291, in the imperial era, at the time of the augustus Maximian, when Mediolanum became the capital of the Western Roman Empire.
9. Cavallo di Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's Horse is a project for a bronze sculpture that was commissioned from Leonardo da Vinci in 1482 by the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, but never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco Sforza. Leonardo did extensive preparatory work for it but produced only a large clay model, which was later destroyed.
10. Monumento a Napoleone III
The monument to Napoleon III and the French Army is a memorial by the sculptor Francesco Barzaghi (1839-1892), located in the Sempione Park in Milan. On the top there is an equestrian statue of Napoleon III, while on the underbase there are the names of French soldiers who died in the Second Italian War of Independence.
11. Vertical Forest
The Bosco Verticale is a complex of two residential skyscrapers designed by Boeri Studio and located in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy. They have a height of 116 metres (381 ft) and 84 m (276 ft) and within the complex is an 11-storey office building.
12. Porta Nuova
Porta Nuova is one of the six main gates of Milan, built along the Spanish ramparts, now demolished. Located north of the city in Piazzale Principessa Clotilde, it opens along the road to Monza. Characterized today by the presence of the neoclassical arch of Zanoia (1810-1813) and the adjoining toll booths, it stands in the center of Piazzale Principessa Clotilde, at the mouth of Corso di Porta Nuova.
13. Giardini Guido Vergani
The Guido Vergani Park and the Valentino Bompiani Garden, formerly known as Pallavicino Park, near the Pagano stop of metro line 1, were built in the sixties on land previously occupied by the western railway belt and the Sempione railway station, which was abandoned in 1934.
Wikipedia: Parco Guido Vergani e Giardino Valentino Bompiani (IT)
14. Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
The Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Northern Italy. Located within the city's ring of navigli, it is one of the oldest churches in the city, originally built in Roman times, but subsequently rebuilt several times over the centuries. It is close to the medieval Porta Ticinese and near the Basilicas Park, which includes both the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, as well as the Roman Colonne di San Lorenzo.
15. Circo romano
The Roman Circus of Milan was an ancient circus in the Roman city of Mediolanum, today's Milan. The building, which measured 470 meters in length and 85 meters in width, was the largest Roman circus built during the time of Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Few Roman cities could boast of owning a circus, as it was a symbol of great economic power, given the cost of maintaining such a large structure and horses, and military. In northern Italy, apart from Milan, only Aquileia had a circus. The Roman circus of Milan was mainly used for sporting competitions on horseback, driven by both chariots and chariots, and exceptionally for gladiator fights.
16. Parco Aldo Aniasi
Aldo Aniasi Park, formerly called Trenno Park, is one of the largest parks in Milan. Trapezoidal in shape, it extends over 50 hectares characterized by meadows bordered by double rows of trees and small woods. It is characterized by wide lawns and long straight avenues, which can be traveled both on foot and by bicycle. Located on the border between Municipio 7 and Municipio 8 in the north-west of the city, it is adjacent to the village of the same name and the racecourses of San Siro and La Maura, with their training tracks that are visible from inside the park beyond a hedge that delimits the entire east side of the park itself.
17. Giardino della Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte
The Villa Reale in Milan, formerly Villa Belgioioso or Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte, is a villa built between 1790 and 1796 in Milan by the architect Leopoldo Pollack, commissioned by Count Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso.
18. Casa a Igloo
La Maggiolina is a residential area of Milan, belonging to the Municipality 2. Although its name, which belonged to a farmhouse that has now disappeared, originally referred to a residential district built west of Via Melchiorre Gioia and almost entirely south of the outer ring road, over time it would have come to indicate a larger area with decidedly blurred contours, ending up overlapping the nearby Journalists' Village and also including the Mirabello District (1939).
19. Giardino della Guastalla
The Guastalla Gardens are a park in Milan, Italy. Overlooking Via Francesco Sforza, in front of the State University of Milan and next to the Maggiore Hospital, they are among the smallest, but also some of the oldest public gardens in Milan.
20. Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, dedicated to painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, is the largest science and technology museum in Italy. It was opened on 15 February 1953 and inaugurated by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi.
Wikipedia: Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (EN), Website
21. Parco agricolo del Ticinello
The Ticinello Agricultural Park is a park in the city of Milan, located east of Via dei Missaglia and the urbanized strip that accompanies it from Piazzale Abbiategrasso, in front of the Gratosoglio district of Milan.
22. Torre Velasca
The Torre Velasca is a skyscraper built in the 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy. The tower is part of the first generation of Italian modern architecture, while still being part of the Milanese context in which it was born, to which also belongs the Milan Cathedral and the Sforza Castle.
23. Villa Imperiale
The Roman imperial palace in Milan was an imperial residence built by Emperor Maximian when Mediolanum became the capital of the Western Roman Empire, a role it held from 286 AD to 402 AD. On this occasion Maximian embellished the city with various monuments, and a considerable part of the city was reserved for the imperial palace and its quarter, which was the residence of the emperor and his court, and which included representative and administrative rooms, as well as private baths, fixed military garrisons, private places of worship and residential areas.
24. Fondazione Prada
Fondazione Prada, co-chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli since 1995, is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture. From 1993 to 2010, the Fondazione has organised 24 solo shows at its exhibition spaces in Milan, conceived as dialogues with acclaimed contemporary artists. In 2015, the Fondazione Prada opened a new, permanent facility in Milan.
25. Museo di Storia Naturale
The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano is a museum in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1838 when naturalist Giuseppe de Cristoforis donated his collections to the city. Its first director was Giorgio Jan.
Wikipedia: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (EN), Website
26. Parco Giovanni Testori
Giovanni Testori Park, formerly known as Campo dei Fiori Park, is a park in Milan, Italy. It occupies the area of a garden-village that stood there at the beginning of the twentieth century and was redeveloped in the eighties. The area is located between the old village of Villapizzone and the Ghisolfa bridge. It is named after the Milanese playwright Giovanni Testori, who often made his characters move and act in that context.
27. Parco ex OM
Bocconi Park, originally called the Park of Industrial Memories, is a park connected to Bocconi University, in the city of Milan. It is divided by the artificiality of the places into three distinct parks: the Park of Culture, the former OM Park and the Vettabbia Park.
28. Chiesa parrocchiale di Santa Maria Rossa
The church of Santa Maria Rossa in Crescenzago is an ancient building of Catholic worship, of the Ambrosian rite. It is located in Milan, in Via Domenico Berra, in the Crescenzago district, on the north-eastern outskirts of the city. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin. The building was reconsecrated on September 8, 1923, following invasive restoration work promoted by Don Giuseppe Roncoroni, then parish priest. The church of Santa Maria Rossa in Crescenzago is not to be confused with the church of Santa Maria la Rossa alla Conca Fallata, also in Milan.
29. Giardino Cassina de' Pomm
The Cassina de' Pomm Garden is a park in the city of Milan, Italy. It stands on the left bank of the Martesana, next to the ancient meeting place of the same name, on an area where the Bonomi factory was located.
30. Parco Gino Cassinis
Cassinis Park, known as Parco delle Rose, is a park in the city of Milan, Italy. It is named after Gino Cassinis, rector of the Polytechnic, president of the Accademia dei Lincei and mayor of Milan from 21 January 1961 to his death on 13 January 1964.
31. Parco della Resistenza
The Parco della Resistenza, until 2013 called Parco Baravalle, is a park in the city of Milan, Italy. It was built on an area that from 1919 until the sixties was occupied by a working-class neighborhood of single-family houses, the Baravalle Garden Village District, demolished to make way for the green area, whose structure is traced by the avenues of the park. On the eastern side of the city are the civic centre, with a library and decentralised offices of the municipality, and a kindergarten.
32. Galleria d'Arte Moderna
The Galleria d'Arte Moderna is a modern art museum in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Villa Reale, at Via Palestro 16, opposite the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli. The collection consists largely of Italian and European works from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
33. Chiesa di San Pietro in Sala
The church of San Pietro in Sala is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy, Italy. It is the seat of the parish of the same name, included in the deanery of San Siro-Sempione-Vercellina of the Archdiocese of Milan.
34. Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
The Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio is a church in Milan in northern Italy, which is in the Basilicas Park city park. It was for many years an important stop for pilgrims on their journey to Rome or to the Holy Land, because it was said to contain the tomb of the Three Magi or Three Kings.
35. Parco della Vettabbia
The Vettabbia Park is part of the South Milan Agricultural Park. It takes its name from the Naviglio Vettabbia that crosses it, is located south of the city of Milan in Municipality 5, and borders the municipal territory of Opera.
36. Chiesa del Sacro Volto
The Church of the Sacred Face is a place of worship in Milan, Italy, the seat of the parish of the same name. It is located in the Isola district, near the Milano Porta Garibaldi station in via Sebenico 31. Since 1 November 2015 she has been part of the Pastoral Community of Mary Mother of Mercy with the parish of Santa Maria alla Fontana.
37. Santa Maria della Consolazione
The church of Santa Maria della Consolazione al Castello is a small church located in Largo Cairoli in Milan, at the end of Via San Giovanni sul Muro and in front of the Teatro dal Verme. It is a subsidiary church of the parish of Santa Maria alla Porta of the Archdiocese of Milan and chaplaincy of the community of the Milanese Filipino faithful.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione (Milano) (IT)
38. Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia
The Barigozzi Foundry, founded in 1806 as Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia, was a historic foundry in the city of Milan, located in Fontana, near the former convent of the church of Santa Maria alla Fontana, in the Isola district.
39. Mausoleo imperiale e Recinto di San Vittore al Corpo
The imperial mausoleum of San Vittore al Corpo was a circular funerary monument in the Roman city of Mediolanum. Built towards the end of the fourth century at the time when Mediolanum was the capital of the Western Roman Empire and located outside the Roman walls of Milan near the Roman Porta Vercellina, it probably housed the tombs of the family of Emperor Valentinian. According to medieval episcopal lists, the bodies of the first Milanese bishops Mirocle (313-314) and Protasio (343-344) were also laid inside the imperial mausoleum. Transformed into the chapel of San Gregorio between the ninth and tenth centuries and annexed to the church of San Vittore al Corpo, the mausoleum was demolished in the sixteenth century on the occasion of the late-sixteenth-century reconstruction of the aforementioned Christian church.
40. Piccolo Teatro Strehler
The Piccolo Teatro di Milano is a theatre in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1947, it is Italy's first permanent theatre, and a national "teatro stabile", or permanent repertory company, and is considered a theatre of major national and European importance. The theatre has three venues: Teatro Grassi, in Via Rovello, between Sforza Castle and the Piazza del Duomo; Teatro Studio, which was originally intended to be the theater's rehearsal hall; and Teatro Strehler, which opened in 1998 with a seating capacity of 974. Its annual programme consists of approximately thirty performances. In addition, the venue hosts cultural events, from festivals and films, to concerts, conferences, and conventions, as well as supporting the Paolo Grassi Drama School.
41. Santa Maria di Lourdes
The church of Santa Maria di Lourdes is a place of worship of the Ambrosian rite of Milan located in via F.lli Induno n. 12 in the northern part of the city, near the Monumental Cemetery. It is part of the pastoral zone I, deanery of Simplon. The church was elevated to a parish in 1925 and in 1958, the centenary of the apparition of the Virgin to Bernadette, to the rank of minor Roman basilica by Cardinal Montini, later Pope Paul VI. The building was erected between 1897 and 1902 to a design by the architect Alfredo Campanini (1873-1926), known for his Art Nouveau and eclectic Milanese architecture.
42. Battistero di San Giovanni alle Fonti
The baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti was one of the first baptisteries in the city of Milan. Dedicated to John the Baptist and built from 378 to 397 at the behest of St. Ambrose in late Roman times during the period in which the Roman city of Mediolanum was the capital of the Western Roman Empire, it was located in close proximity to the basilica vetus and the basilica maior in an intermediate position between the two where the modern Piazza del Duomo now stands. The presence of two basilicas very close together was in fact common in Northern Italy during the Constantinian age and could be found, in particular, in episcopal sees.
43. Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova
The Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua is a church in Milan, Italy, entrusted to the Order of Friars Minor. It is located in Via Carlo Farini, not far from the Monumental Cemetery and Milan Porta Garibaldi Station.
Wikipedia: Santuario di Sant'Antonio di Padova (Milano) (IT)
44. Basilica di San Vincenzo in Prato
The basilica of San Vincenzo in Prato is a Roman Catholic church located in Via Daniele Crespi 6, in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church maintains most of its original Palaeo-Christian appearance.
45. Abbazia di Chiaravalle
The Abbey of Santa Maria di Rovegnano is a Cistercian monastic complex in the comune of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. The borgo that has developed round the abbey was once an independent commune called Chiaravalle Milanese, now included in Milan and referred to as the Chiaravalle district.
46. Contemporary Arts Pavilion
The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli.
Wikipedia: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (EN), Website, Facebook
47. Cappella di Sant'Aquilino
The chapel of Sant'Aquilino is a chapel, located on the right side of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Milan, to which it is connected by a passageway. The chapel dates back to the fifth century, of which period the remains of some mosaics remain.
48. Antiquarium Alda Levi
The antiquarium of Milan is an antiquarium located in Milan in Via De Amicis where the remains of the foundations of the Roman amphitheater of Milan are preserved together with a museum that illustrates the history of the monument based on the latest archaeological investigations conducted in the city.
49. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
Santa Maria presso San Satiro is a church in Milan. The Italian Renaissance structure (1476–1482) houses the early medieval shrine to Satyrus, brother of Saint Ambrose. The church is known for its false apse, an early example of trompe-l'œil, attributed to Donato Bramante.
50. San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore
San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore is a church in Milan, Northern Italy. It was originally attached to the most important female convent of the Benedictines in the city, Monastero Maggiore, which is now in use as the Civic Archaeological Museum. The church today is used every Sunday from October to June to celebrate in the Byzantine Rite, in Greek according to the Italo-Albanian tradition. It is also used as a concert hall.
51. Santa Maria di Caravaggio
The church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio is a sanctuary of Milan located in via Francesco Borromini n.5, in the Porta Ticinese district. He was erected between 1906 and 1911 on the design of the architect Cecilio Arpesani (1853-1924) and is a parish seat since 1927. He was elevated to the rank of Basilica Minor in 1979 by Pope John Paul II. The sanctuary is characterized to a large mosaic decorated crypt that houses the statue of the Madonna of Caravaggio and the young Giannetta, witness of the apparition of the Virgin.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria di Caravaggio (Milano) (IT)
52. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio
The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy. It is located along the Naviglio Grande, in Alzaia Naviglio Grande 34, in the Porta Genova district, inside the Municipality 6.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio (IT)
53. Milan Holocaust Memorial Foundation
The Memoriale della Shoah is a Holocaust memorial at the Milano Centrale railway station commemorating the Jewish prisoners deported from there during the Holocaust in Italy. Jewish prisoners from the San Vittore Prison, Milan, were taken from there to a secret underground platform, Platform 21, to be loaded on freight cars and taken on Holocaust trains to extermination camps, either directly or via other transit camps. Twenty trains and up to 1,200 Jewish prisoners left Milan in this fashion to be murdered, predominantly at Auschwitz.
54. Chiesa del Corpus Domini
The church of Corpus Domini is located in Milan, in via Canova n. 4, a short distance from the Arch of Peace. It is part of the Simplon deanery of the Archdiocese of Milan and was elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius XII at the behest of the Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini, later Pope Paul VI. The church is divided into a lower basilica, consecrated on 31 December 1900, and an upper basilica, erected later. The building is part of a vast religious complex commissioned by Father Gerardo Beccaro (1846-1912), superior of the Lombard Carmelite province: it included, in addition to the basilica, the convent of the Discalced Carmelites, the provincial library, the Holy Eucharistic League printing press and the National Hospice for the Little Derelicts, inaugurated on November 4, 1904.
55. Conca dell'Incoronata
The Conca dell'Incoronata, or Conca delle Gabelle, is an ancient navigation basin located in Milan that was used to easily overcome the difference in height between the Naviglio della Martesana and the Cerchia dei Navigli.
56. Museo San fedele
The San Fedele Museum is an artistic and religious itinerary that develops in the sixteenth-century church of San Fedele in Milan and in the surrounding areas. Promoted by the Jesuit fathers, it is an example of dialogue between ancient, modern and contemporary art.
57. Chiesa parrocchiale di San Gabriele Arcangelo in Mater Dei
The church of St. Gabriel the Archangel in Mater Dei is a Catholic place of worship located in a twentieth-century parish complex located in Milan in Via Termopili, near Viale Monza, in the territory of the Turro Deanery. It was designed starting in 1956 by the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni at the request of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, and the construction was completed in 1959.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gabriele Arcangelo in Mater Dei (IT)
58. Sottomarino Enrico Toti
Italian submarine Enrico Toti was the first of a new class of Italian submarine, with Enrico Toti being laid down in 1965, launched in 1967, decommissioned in 1992 and preserved as a museum ship at thea Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", in Milan. The ship, and class, are named after the Italian war hero Enrico Toti.
Wikipedia: Italian submarine Enrico Toti (S 506) (EN), Website
59. Chiesa di Santa Croce
The church of Santa Croce is a Roman Catholic church located in Milan, Italy, located in Via Sidoli, in the Acquabella area, not far from Piazzale Susa and Piazzale Novelli. Built to a design by the Piedmontese architect Cecilio Arpesani (1853-1924) between 1913 and 1917, it was erected into the parish on 9 February 1920.
60. Chiesa di San Martino in Lambrate
The church of San Martino in Lambrate is the parish church of Lambrate, a district of Milan, in the metropolitan city and archdiocese of Milan. it is part of the deanery of Città Studi-Lambrate-Venice.
61. Tempio Israelitico
The central synagogue of Milan, built in 1892, rebuilt in 1947 and renovated again in 1997, is the main place of worship of the Jewish community of Milan. Since 1993 it has been called Hechal David u-Mordechai Central Temple. It is located in via Guastalla 19.
62. Mudec
The Museum of Cultures (Mudec) in Milan is a museum and exhibition center inaugurated in 2015, in conjunction with Expo, dedicated to the enhancement and interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The Mudec houses the finds and collections of the non-European collections of the Castello Sforzesco. The museum's spaces are also an exhibition center for temporary exhibitions and events, organized both by the Municipality of Milan and by the concessionaire 24 ORE Cultura. Since February 2022, the museum has also been the centre of the Museum of Cultures, Intercultural Projects and Art in Public Space Area.
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63. Acquario Civico
The Civic Aquarium of Milan is an aquarium in Milan, Italy, and the third oldest aquarium in Europe. Built in 1906 on the occasion of the Milan International, It is the only surviving building from the event. Sited on the edge of Sempione Park, the aquarium has over 100 different types of underwater life located in several tanks with a particular attention for the fishes and aquatic vegetation of the Italian seacoasts, lakes, and rivers.
64. Chiesa parrocchiale di San Giovanni Battista in Trenno
The church of San Giovanni Battista in Trenno, formerly the parish church of the same name, is a place of Catholic worship in Milan, it was built between 1635 and 1657 but stands near a church built before the year 1017 in the then independent parish church of Trenno, now part of the Trenno district of the municipality of Milan.
65. Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno
The Church of San Gregorio Magno is a place of Catholic worship in the city of Milan, located at the intersection of Via San Gregorio and Via Ludovico Settala, in Municipality 3, seat of the homonymous parish of the Venice deanery of the pastoral zone I of the Archdiocese of Milan.
66. Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II
Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II, best known by its historic name Basilicas Park is a city park of Milan, Italy, located in Zone 1. It owes its name to the fact that it connects two major basilicas, the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio. The park has an overall area of 40.700 m2, bisected by Via Molino delle Armi, one of the avenues comprising the Cerchia dei Navigli ring road.
67. Chiesa parrocchiale di San Nicolao della Flue
The church of San Nicolao della Flue is a parish church in Milan, located on the eastern outskirts of the city, in the center of the Forlanini district. he is part of the Charles de Foucault Pastoral Community.
68. Chiesa di Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia
The church of Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia is a church in Milan, Milan, also known as the abbey of Casoretto, from the name of the district of Casoretto, in the northeastern suburbs, where it stands in Piazza San Materno.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia (IT)
69. Teatro Dal Verme
The Teatro Dal Verme is a theatre in Milan, Italy located on the Via San Giovanni sul Muro, on the site of the former private theatre the Politeama Ciniselli. It was designed by Giuseppe Pestagalli to a commission from Count Francesco Dal Verme, and was used primarily for plays and opera performances throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, the theatre is no longer used for opera, but is a venue for concerts, plays and dance performances, as well as exhibitions and conferences.
70. Santi Protasio e Gervasio
San Protaso is a church in Milan, Italy, located on the corner of Piazzale Brescia and Via Osoppo, in Municipio 7. it is the Ambrosian rite parish of the same name, belonging to the deanery of San Siro-Sempione-Vercellina in pastoral zone I of the archdiocese of Milan.
71. Museo degli Strumenti Musicali
The Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan exhibits over 700 musical instruments from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries with particular attention to Lombard instruments. The collection contains plucked instruments, Lombard and Cremonese violins, hunting horns, numerous wood instruments, bassoons, pianos and some ancient organs. In particular the Cremonese lutherie is appreciated all over the world for the high quality of its musical instruments. The museum also displays the equipment of the former Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano.
Wikipedia: Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan) (EN), Website
72. Fontana delle Quattro Stagioni
The Fountain of the Four Seasons is a fountain located in the center of Piazzale Giulio Cesare, in the city of Milan. It was inaugurated on 12 April 1927 on the occasion of the opening of the eighth International Trade Fair. The project was by the architect Renzo Gerla, at the time an official of the Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan.
73. Basilica di San Simpliciano
The Basilica of San Simpliciano is an ancient Roman Catholic church in the centre of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy: the church, commissioned by the 4th century bishop St Ambrose, is the second oldest known Christian church with a Latin cross layout. It is dedicated to Saint Simplician, who was Ambrose's successor as bishop of Milan.
74. Teatro Leonardo da Vinci
The Teatro Leonardo da Vinci is an Italian theatre founded in 1979 by Fiorenzo Grassi and Gianni Valle. The structure, consisting of an underground theater hall, is dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci and is located in Milan in via Ampére, 1.
75. Villa Necchi Campiglio
Villa Necchi Campiglio is a historic residence located at via Mozart, 14, Milan. It was built between 1932 and 1935 as an independent single-family house designed by Piero Portaluppi, an important Milanese Rationalist architect, and is surrounded by a large private garden with a tennis court and swimming pool. This was the second swimming pool ever to be built in Milan after the municipal one, and the first to be built on private land.
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76. Porta Romana
Porta Romana is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. In its present form, the gate dates back to the 16th century Spanish walls of Milan. Its origins can be traced further back to the Roman walls of the city, which had a corresponding "Roman Gate" roughly in the same area. Porta Romana was the first and the main imperial entrance of the entire city of Milan, as it was the starting point of the road leading to Ancient Rome. According to a survey conducted by Scenari Immobiliari in 2020, this area is in first place in the ranking of the neighborhoods that offer the best liveability in Milan.
77. Colonna del Verziere
The Verziere Column is a baroque-manneristic monumental column dedicated to "Jesus Christ the Redeemer", in Milan, Italy. The column is located in Largo Augusto and it is named after the "Verziere", the traditional greengrocery street market of Milan that, until 1783, was located in the surrounding district. The construction of the column began in 1580, but it was only completed in 1673.
78. Museo Diocesano di Milano
The Diocesan Museum of Milan is an art museum in Milan housing a permanent collection of sacred artworks, especially from Milan and Lombardy. Originally conceived by Ildefonso Schuster in 1931 as a vehicle to protect and promote the art collection of the Archdiocese of Milan, the museum was eventually established in the former headquarters of the Dominican Order in the back of the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio with the support of Pope Paul VI. In 2001 Carlo Maria Martini inaugurated the current venue located in Porta Ticinese.
79. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore
The Church of the Holy Redeemer is a place of Catholic worship in the city of Milan, located in Via Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, near Corso Buenos Aires, in Municipality 3, seat of the homonymous parish of the Venice deanery of the pastoral zone I of the archdiocese of Milan.
80. Egyptian Museum
The Museo Egizio or Egyptian Museum is a museum sited in the Sforza Castle of Milan, Italy. The Castle is one of the most famous monuments in Milan and is home to several museums including the Egyptian Section of the Milan Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Ancient Art, the Pinacoteca and the Museum of Musical Instruments.
81. ADI Design Museum
The ADI Design Museum is a museum in Milan, Italy, which houses the historical collection of the ADI Compasso d'Oro Foundation, as well as temporary exhibitions, public talks and initiatives. It is dedicated to the understanding and promotion of design in Italy and abroad.
82. Chiesa Santa Francesca Romana
The church of Santa Francesca Romana is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy, located in the square of the same name, near Corso Buenos Aires, in the Porta Venezia district. It is the seat of a parish, governed by the diocesan clergy.
83. Basilica di San Calimero
The Basilica di San Calimero is a church in Milan, northern Italy. Its name refers to Saint Calimerius, an early bishop of the city. It dates from the 5th century but was almost completely rebuilt in 1882 by the architect Angelo Colla in an attempt to restore it to the "original" medieval structure.
84. L.O.V.E.
L.O.V.E., commonly known as Il Dito is a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan consisting of a hand with all the fingers severed with the exception of the middle finger. The sculpture is located in Piazza degli Affari in (Milan), where the Italian stock exchange is located. The name L.O.V.E. is the acronym of "Libertà, Odio, Vendetta, Eternità". The sculpture, built in 2010, was originally exhibited on the occasion of Cattelan's retrospective at The Royal Palace of Milan. After the exhibition closed, the city Councillor for Culture Massimiliano Finazzer Flory proposed the piece to be permanent. The business community objected to the idea but after long deliberations, facilitated by Cattelan's decision to donate the sculpture, L.O.V.E. was eventually given permanent status.
85. Museum of Ancient Art
The Museo d'Arte Antica is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods. The various frescoed rooms of the museum house an armoury, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments, Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà and two medieval portals.
86. Vineyard of Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci's Vineyard is a vineyard the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Maria Sforza best known as Ludovico il Moro, gave as a gift to Leonardo da Vinci in 1498 while he was working on the painting of Last Supper in the nearby refectory of the cathedral and Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. It was a gesture to give credit for the many admirable works Leonardo had been creating for the Duke.
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87. Teatro Carcano
The Teatro Carcano is a theatre in Milan, Italy, located at 63 Corso di Porta Romana. Although now exclusively devoted to plays and dance, it served as an opera house for much of the 19th century and saw the premieres of several important operas. Completed in 1803, the theatre was commissioned by the Milanese aristocrat and theatre-lover Giuseppe Carcano and originally designed by Luigi Canonica. Over the succeeding two centuries it has undergone several restructurings and renovations and for a time in the mid-20th century functioned as a cinema.
88. Giardini pubblici Indro Montanelli
Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli, formerly known as Giardini Pubblici and Giardini di Porta Venezia are a major and historic city park in Milan, Italy, located in the Porta Venezia district, north-east of the city center, in the Zone 1 administrative division. Established in 1784, they are the oldest city park in Milan. After their establishment, the Gardens have been repeatedly enlarged (to the current overall area of 172,000 square metres and enriched with notable buildings, most notably the Natural History Museum and the Planetarium.
89. Branca Tower
Torre Branca is a steel-frame panoramic tower designed by architect Giò Ponti in 1933, located in Parco Sempione, the main city park of Milan, Italy. It is 108.6 m high, which makes it the sixth highest structure in Milan after Unicredit Tower, Allianz Tower Palazzo Lombardia, Pirellone or Pirelli Tower and the Breda Tower. The top of the tower is a panoramic point whose view, on a clear day, may encompass the Milan cityline as well as the Alps, the Apennines, and part of the Po Valley.
90. Costantino Imperatore
The statue of Emperor Constantine is a bronze monument cast in 1937 on the model of the ancient original of the fourth century kept in the church of St. John Lateran in Rome. The bronze is located in Milan in the churchyard of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore, to which the monument has its back.
91. Chiesa di San Carlo al Lazzaretto
San Carlo al Lazzaretto is a small Renaissance style octagonal church now in largo Bellintani Fra Paolo, number 1 in the quartiere Porta Venezia of Milan. It is located about three blocks northwest of the Porta Venezia. Its present situation, amidst crowded 19th and 20th century apartment blocks, has little relationship to its original placement, in the central park of a massive rectangular cloister-like 15th-century leprosarium (Lazaretto). The church, once called Tempietto di Santa Maria della Sanità or San Carlino, escaped the late-nineteenth century demolition of the Lazzaretto.
92. Santa Maria al Paradiso
Chiesa di Santa Maria al Paradiso is a church in Milan, Italy. It was begun in 1590 for the Third Order of Saint Francis, after designs by Martino Bassi. The facade, however, was only added in 1897 in a Neo-Baroque style by the architect Ernesto Pirovano (1866-1934).
93. Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato
The Teatro Fossati, known since 1986 as Piccolo Teatro Studio and since 2013 as Teatro Studio Melato, is a historic theater structure in Milan located between Corso Garibaldi and Via Rivoli, next to the Teatro Studio Strehler.
94. Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta al Vigentino
The church of Santa Maria Assunta al Vigentino is a church in Milan located near Via Giuseppe Ripamonti in the Vigentino district, in the southern part of the city, along the ancient Via Vigentina. Its history is linked in a first phase to the suburban districts born from the forced exodus of the Milanese after the destruction of the city by Barbarossa in 1162. In the fifteenth century it was part of an important monastic complex, the Castellazzo, of the order of the Gerolimini. Rebuilt between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, it contains the Chapel of the Rosary, with interesting works by Cerano and his workshop, as well as a pictorial cycle in the presbytery that can be traced back to the influence of Ambrogio Figino. The side altars and the stucco decorations of the interior date back to the seventeenth century, while the high altar and the pictorial decoration of the baptistery were made in the following century. It underwent a major restoration that was completed in 2016.
95. Leonardo3 Museum – The World of Leonardo
Leonardo3 is an interactive museum and exhibition center at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza della Scala, Milano, Italy. The museum was inaugurated in 2013, and is devoted to Italy’s notable personality Leonardo da Vinci, who is portrayed both as an artist and inventor.
96. Casa Manzoni
Casa Manzoni is a historical palace sited in via Morone 1 near the quadrilateral of fashion in the center of Milan, Italy. Owned by the Manzoni family, the house was the birthplace of the famous Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni in 1785.
97. Basilica di San Vittore al Corpo
The church and monastery of San Vittore al Corpo were an ancient monastery of the Olivetan order built in the early 16th century. The site was once a fourth century Roman imperial mausoleum of Maximian, that may also have held the burials of the emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, though they were more likely buried in another mausoleum, now the Chapel of Saint Aquilinus in the Basilica of Saint Lawrence. The basilica was enlarged in the 8th century to house the relics of the saints Vittore and Satiro. A Benedictine monastery soon was attached to the church. In 1507, the monastery was transferred to the Olivetans, who began a major reconstruction. Reconstruction of the church was begun in 1533 by Vincenzo Seregni, and completed in 1568 by Pellegrino Tibaldi. The façade remains incomplete. The dome was frescoed in 1617 by Guglielmo Caccia. In the chapel of St Anthony is a 1619 canvas by Daniele Crespi. In the transept on the left, is an early 17th-century cycle of canvases of the Stories of San Benedetto, by Ambrogio Figino while the right transept has three altarpieces by Camillo Procaccini. Other chapels have paintings by Pompeo Batoni and Giovanni Battista Discepoli.
98. Chiesa della Beata Vergine Assunta in Bruzzano
The Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption in Bruzzano is the parish church of Bruzzano, a district of Milan, in the metropolitan city and archdiocese of Milan. it is part of the deanery of Affori
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99. Porta Ticinese
Porta Ticinese is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. The gate, facing south-west, was first created with the Spanish walls of the city, in the 16th century, but the original structure was later demolished and replaced in the early 19th century. The name "Porta Ticinese" is used both to refer to the gate proper and to the surrounding district, part of the Zone 6 administrative division. In the same district there is also a medieval gate with the same name, although in common speech the name "Porta Ticinese" is usually assumed to refer to the 19th century gate.
100. Certosa di Garegnano
Garegnano Charterhouse, also known as Milan Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, located on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, in the Garegnano district. It now houses a community of Capuchin Friars.
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