Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Milan, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10 km
Ascend 153 m
Descend 155 m

Experience Milan in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in MilanIndividual Sights in Milan

Sight 1: San Bernardino alle Monache

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San Bernardino alle Monache is a Renaissance style church on Via Lanzone 13 in central Milan, Italy. This was originally a chapel within the nunnery of St Bernard. The monastery no longer exists. It was built around 1447 to designs by Pietro Antonio Solari. The interior contains frescoes from the 15th century and before. Some are attributed to Vincenzo Foppa. The church was restored in the last century.

Wikipedia: San Bernardino alle Monache (EN)

880 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Santa Maria presso San Satiro

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria presso San Satiro (EN)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Monumento a Giuseppe Missori

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The monument to Giuseppe Missori is a bronze sculpture located in Piazza Missori in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Giuseppe Missori (IT)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Cripta di San Giovanni in Conca

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San Giovanni in Conca is a crypt of a former basilica church in Milan, northern Italy. It is now located in the centre of Piazza Missori.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni in Conca (Crypt), Milan (EN)

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Madonnina del Duomo di Milano

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Madonnina del Duomo di Milano José Luiz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Madonnina is a statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan Cathedral in Italy.

Wikipedia: Madonnina (statue) (EN)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Milan Cathedral

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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.

Wikipedia: Milan Cathedral (EN), Website

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Battistero di San Giovanni alle Fonti

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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.

Wikipedia: Battistero di San Giovanni alle Fonti (IT)

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Museo del Novecento

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The Museo del Novecento is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.

Wikipedia: Museo del Novecento (EN)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Duomo Museum

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The Grande Museo del Duomo di Milano, owned by the Veneranda Fabbrica, is housed inside the Palazzo Reale di Milano, in Piazza del Duomo.

Wikipedia: Grande Museo del Duomo di Milano (IT), Website

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: San Gottardo Church

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San Gottardo in Corte or San Gottardo a Palazzo is a church in Milan, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Gottardo, Milan (EN)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Fontana del Piermarini

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The Piermarini Fountain is a neoclassical fountain, the work of the architect Giuseppe Piermarini, located in Milan near the square of the same name. Inaugurated on August 15, 1782, it is considered the first fountain built in the Milanese city.

Wikipedia: Fontana del Piermarini (IT)

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto

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The church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto is a Catholic place of worship in Milan, Italy, incorporated into the building of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, behind the cathedral.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto (IT)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Statua a Cesare Beccaria

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Statua a Cesare Beccaria

The monument to Cesare Beccaria is a bronze sculpture located in Piazza Cesare Beccaria in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Cesare Beccaria (1871) (IT)

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate

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402 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Torre Velasca

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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.

Wikipedia: Torre Velasca (EN)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Basilica San Nazaro in Brolo

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Basilica San Nazaro in BroloG.dallorto / Attribution

The basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo or San Nazaro Maggiore is a 4th-century Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Nazaro in Brolo (EN)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Sguardo Fisico

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Sguardo Fisico Comune di Milano / CC BY 3.0 it

The monument to Margherita Hack is a bronze sculpture located in Milan in Largo Richini and erected in 2022 in memory of the famous astrophysicist and academic.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Margherita Hack (IT), Artist Website

363 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Santo Stefano Maggiore

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Basilica di Santo Stefano Maggiore is a church in Milan, Italy. It was established in the 5th century. Originally dedicated to both Saint Zechariah and Saint Stephen, it was later dedicated to Saint Stephen only. Throughout its history, has undergone several reconstructions, expansion and restoration.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santo Stefano Maggiore (EN)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa

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San Bernardino alle Ossa is a church in Milan, northern Italy, best known for its ossuary, a small side chapel decorated with numerous human skulls and bones.

Wikipedia: San Bernardino alle Ossa (EN)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Monumento ai Bersaglieri

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The Bersaglieri Monument is a monument located in Largo Bersaglieri in Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia: Monumento ai Bersaglieri (IT)

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Sanità

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Chiesa di Santa Maria della SanitàG.dallorto / Attribution

Santa Maria della Sanità also known as dei Crociferi, is a late-Baroque or Rococo style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Durini #19 in Milan, in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Sanità, Milan (EN)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Palazzo Cusini

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Palazzo Cusini is a historic building in Milan, located in Via Durini at number 9.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Cusini (IT)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Colonna del Verziere

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Colonna del VerziereG.dallorto / Attribution

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.

Wikipedia: Verziere Column (EN)

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 24: Giardino della Guastalla

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Giardino della Guastalla Original uploader was Yoruno at it.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Giardini della Guastalla (IT)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa dei Santi Barnaba e Paolo

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San Barnaba is a church in Milan, Italy. It is the first edifice of the Barnabites order.

Wikipedia: San Barnaba, Milan (EN)

507 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: Chiesa di San Pietro in Gessate

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Chiesa di San Pietro in Gessate

San Pietro in Gessate is a church in Milan, northern Italy. Built in the 15th century, it is a noteworthy example of Gothic architecture.

Wikipedia: San Pietro in Gessate (EN)

459 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 27: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Passione

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Santa Maria della Passione is a late Renaissance-style church located in Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Passione (EN)

1022 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 28: Santa Maria del Suffragio

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Santa Maria del Suffragio

The church of Santa Maria del Suffragio is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Suffragio (Milano) (IT), Website

842 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 29: Fontana a Pinocchio

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The Fontana a Pinocchio is a fountain and sculptural monument located in a traffic island in Corso Indipendenza, a central avenue of Milan, Italy. It is decorated with a complex of bronze statues based on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, designed by Italian sculptor Attilio Fagioli (1877–1966) and realized by the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia foundry.

Wikipedia: Fontana a Pinocchio (EN)

823 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 30: Chiesa di Santa Croce

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Croce (Milano) (IT)

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