Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Milan, Italy

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.

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The Mermaid Bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Milan, Italy, Italy.

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The Mysterious Baths is a 1973 work by Giorgio de Chirico, initially created for the fountain in the garden of the Palazzo dell'Arte in Parco Sempione in Milan and now exhibited at the Museo del 900.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The monument to the Alpini d'Italia is a bronze sculpture by Emilio Bisi located in Piazza Giovanni XXIII in Milan.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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