Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Milan, Italy
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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 MilanSight 1: San Bernardino alle Monache
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.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Monumento a Giuseppe Missori
The monument to Giuseppe Missori is a bronze sculpture located in Piazza Missori in Milan.
Sight 4: Cripta di San Giovanni in Conca
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.
Sight 5: Madonnina del Duomo di Milano
The Madonnina is a statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan Cathedral in Italy.
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: Museo del Novecento
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.
Sight 9: Duomo Museum
The Grande Museo del Duomo di Milano, owned by the Veneranda Fabbrica, is housed inside the Palazzo Reale di Milano, in Piazza del Duomo.
Sight 10: San Gottardo Church
San Gottardo in Corte or San Gottardo a Palazzo is a church in Milan, northern Italy.
Sight 11: Fontana del Piermarini
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.
Sight 12: Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto
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)
Sight 13: Statua a Cesare Beccaria
The monument to Cesare Beccaria is a bronze sculpture located in Piazza Cesare Beccaria in Milan.
Sight 14: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: Basilica San Nazaro in Brolo
The basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo or San Nazaro Maggiore is a 4th-century Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 17: Sguardo Fisico
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.
Sight 18: Santo Stefano Maggiore
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.
Sight 19: Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa
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.
Sight 20: Monumento ai Bersaglieri
The Bersaglieri Monument is a monument located in Largo Bersaglieri in Milan, Italy.
Sight 21: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Sanità
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.
Sight 22: Palazzo Cusini
Palazzo Cusini is a historic building in Milan, located in Via Durini at number 9.
Sight 23: 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.
Sight 24: 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.
Sight 25: Chiesa dei Santi Barnaba e Paolo
San Barnaba is a church in Milan, Italy. It is the first edifice of the Barnabites order.
Sight 26: 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.
Sight 27: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Passione
Santa Maria della Passione is a late Renaissance-style church located in Milan, Italy.
Sight 28: 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
Sight 29: Fontana a Pinocchio
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.
Sight 30: 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.
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