Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 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: 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.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Museo delle Arti Decorative
The Applied Arts Collection of Milan is located in the Sforza Castle museum complex under the management of the municipality of Milan, Italy. The museum is divided into several sections with particular emphasis on jewelry, ivories, pottery and art glass.
Sight 4: 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
Sight 5: Ago, filo e nodo
Needle, Thread and Knot is a public artwork in two parts by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in Piazzale Cadorna, Milan, Italy.
Sight 6: Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli
The "Achille Bertarelli" Civic Collection of Prints is housed in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
Wikipedia: Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli (IT), Website
Sight 7: Museo d'arte e scienza
The Museum of Art and Science in Milan, a stone's throw from the Sforza Castle, was founded in 1990 by the German physicist Gottfried Matthaes.
Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine
Santa Maria del Carmine is a church in Milan, Italy. It was built in 1446.
Sight 9: Chiesa di San Giuseppe
San Giuseppe is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 10: Napoleone come Marte Pacificatore
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker is a bronze cast of the marble sculpture of the same name by Antonio Canova. It was commissioned from Canova in spring 1807 by Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier, French ambassador to Rome, commissioned it from Canova for 5,000 Louis as a gift to Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy. It was cast in 1811 and De Beauharnais sent it to Milan in May 1812, but the city found it difficult to find a site for it. It was finally moved to its present site in the main courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera (now the Pinacoteca di Brera and inaugurated there on 14 August 1859 during Napoleon III's visit.
Sight 11: 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.
Sight 12: Fontana di San Francesco
The Fountain of San Francesco di Castiglioni or Castiglioni Fountain it is one of the most famous fountains in Milan and one of the most famous fountains created by the artist Giannino Castiglioni.
Sight 13: Museo della Permanente
The Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition, better known as La Permanente, is a non-profit organization, artistic and cultural association in Milan.
Wikipedia: Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente (IT), Website
Sight 14: Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
San Bartolomeo is a 19th-century, Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 15: Monumento a Giuseppe Giacosa
The monument to Giuseppe Giacosa is a bronze sculpture placed on a stone base in the public gardens of Milan.
Sight 16: Monumento a Emilio De Marchi
The monument to Emilio De Marchi is a sculptural group in bronze and stone placed in the public gardens of Milan.
Sight 17: Monumento a Giuseppe Balzaretto
The monument to Giuseppe Balzaretto, architect who in 1862 rearranged the Gardens of Via Palestro in Milan, is a sculptural group in stone and bronze placed on the rocaille of Monte Merlo in the same gardens.
Sight 18: Monumento a Gaetano Negri
The monument to Gaetano Blacks is a bronze sculpture placed on a stone base in the public gardens of Milan.
Sight 19: 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.
Sight 20: Chiesa di San Pietro Celestino
The church of San Pietro Celestino, which once overlooked the circle of the Navigli, is a church in Milan, Italy, in Via Senato. It is now consecrated to the worship of the Egyptian Copts.
Sight 21: Palazzo Bovara
Palazzo Bovara, in full Palazzo Bovara Busca Benni, is a historic building in Milan located in Corso Venezia n. 51.
Sight 22: Palazzo Dal Pozzo Benni
Palazzo Dal Pozzo Benni is a historic building in Milan, Italy, located in Corso Venezia 53.
Sight 23: Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli
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Sight 24: Monumento a Luciano Manara
The monument to Luciano Manara is a bronze sculpture placed in the public gardens of Milan.
Sight 25: Albergo diurno Venezia
The Albergo diurno Venezia is a structure built under Piazza Oberdan in Milan, on the western side towards Via Tadino.
Sight 26: Casa Galimberti
Casa Galimberti is a building in Milan, Italy, located in Via Malpighi, at number 3.
Sight 27: 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.
Sight 28: Teatro Elfo Puccini
The Teatro dell'Elfo, today also known as Teatro Elfo Puccini, is an Italian theater.
Sight 29: Casa-museo Boschi Di Stefano
The Boschi Di Stefano House-Museum is a historic residence in Milan. It is located on the second floor of a building in Via Giorgio Jan at number 15.
Sight 30: 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.
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