MILAN
ARCHITECTURE
www.milanoin.it/monumenti
(monuments)
Palazzo
Reale
It is the biggest place for exposing, it was
rebuilt in 1772-78, took pieces of
Visconti’s coort
Galleria
Vittorio Emanuele II
In
Piazza del Duomo there is the “living-room
of Milan”, it is a structure with four
arms and a central dome. It was inaugurate
by Vittorio Emanuele, it comunics Piazza del
Duomo with Via Manzoni
Santa Maria presso San Satiro
The small church conserves the wonderful
trompe-l’œil by Bramante which
riproducing the apse whish is lack in the
churh
San Lorenzo Maggiore
This
church has got a central plan, it was
rebuilt many times; in 1573 the dome was
rebuilt. There are unique mosaics in S.
Antony’s Chapel
Sant’Eustorgio
This
basilic conserves the belfry, which is built
in XII. The church has got a link with the
history of the Magi’s reliques the Saint
bring them in Milan
Renaissance
Castello
Sforzesco
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Neo-classicist
Teatro
alla Scala
It
is the lirical mondial temple, it was built
on the destroy church of Santa Maria della
Scala. Inside there is the beautiful wooden
room with two galleries; it has got a
wonderful acoustics
Villa Reale
In
this villa were stayed Napoleon, General
Radetzky, Napoleon III; it passed to Milan
and the city utilizes this building for
civil weddings. It gives hospitality to a
picture-collection of modern art
The
seventeenth century
Ca’Granda
It
was born like an hospital in 1456, the
building wasmade over to the University of
the city. The window are gotic, the main
dooris baroc
Gothic
Duomo
It
is the third big church in the world. It was
built from 1386 to our days. On the highest
spire there is the famous little Madonna
which is the simbol of the city
Tardo
Ottocento
Palazzo
Marino
It
was planned in XIV century. It is the
Commune of the city, and here was born a
Marino’s niece, Marianna de Leyva, who
inspired the Manzoni’s character of the
nun of Monza
Romanico
San
Nazaro Maggiore
It
is near the University and the main door in
Porta Romana is precedutes of Trivulzio
Chapel. There is the Bernardino Lanino’s
masterpiece and some Daniele Crespi’s
frescos
Sant’
Ambrogio
Iot
is one of the oldest basilics in the city,
it is the simbol of the autonomy in the
city. Inside there is the pergamo, in the
third campata, the Gold altar which was
built by Volvinio: it has got gold and
silver leaves, it rappresents the Christ and
S. Ambrogio’s life
Santa
Maria delle Grazie
It
was built at the end of 1400. In the
presbyterythere is the wood inlaid
choir.There is a small cloister and an old
Sacristy
Classico
Colonne
di San Lorenzo
In
front of San Lorenzo church there are 16
corinthian columns, they are 8,50 high and
they came from a temple which was built on
II-III century
Moderno
Torre
Velasca
It
has got 26 floors in concrete; it has got a
particular conformation: the cap with 6
floors is jutting unlike the whole structure.
It reminds a big medieval tower
MUSEUMS
www.rcs.it/mimu
www.museidelcentro.milano.it
(Museo del Risorgimento, Museo di Storia
Contemporanea, Casa di Alessandro Manzoni)
www.amicidibrera.milano.it
http://lettere.uni-pv.it/brera
English (Pinacoteca di Brera)
http://vivimilano.corriere.it/arte/arte.html
(art)
www.teatroallascala.org
(Teatro alla Scala)
http://www.yesmilano.it/inserti/milarte/htm/home.htm
Museo del Duomo
There are sculture, windows from the Duomo, models,
sketches. They
told us the story to built the
cathedral
Museo Teatrale alla Scala
It talks about the story of the liric theatre through
scores, autographs, scenaries, costums and
instruments. A part of the thestre is
dedicated to Verdi
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
This
museum gives hospitality to italian pictures
of Piero del Pollaiolo, Botticelli, Mantegna,
There are also sculture and a big collection
pf clocks
Museo
Civico di Storia Naturale
There
are sections of mineralogy, geology,
panteology, zoology and botanic. Thare are
recostruction and diorami of natural
ambients with their animals
Planetario
Ulrico Hoepli
You
could see the starry sky. On the dome there
are printed the stars and the planets with
their traiettory and the season positions
Museo
della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo da
Vinci
It
is in the ex San Vittore monastery, it is
suddivided in 28 tematic sections. The most
famous section is the Leonardo da Vinci one.
There is the Navy Museum, with models from
Christofer Colombo’s Caravelle to the
contemporaney war ships
Cenacolo
Vinciniano
On
the back wall of the refectory in the
dominican monastery next to Santa Maria
delle Grazie, Leonardo painted from 1495 to
1497, l’Ultima Cena. The
Leonardo’s tecnic and the condition of the
environment make a very difficult
conservation
Musei del Castello
Sforzesco
The
castle shows a lot of museums expecially in
the docal cohort. In the Old Art Collection
there is the Pietà Rondanini, by
Michelangelo. The art gallery has got
pictures of Mantegna, Bellini, Foppa,
Tintoretto. There are weapons collections,
instruments and potteries
Pinacoteca di
Brera
It
has been opened to the pubblic since 1809,
it has got a lot of collections which gather
italian masterpeaces from 1400 to 1900. The
most important pictures are Cristo Morto
by Mantegna, Madonna del Duca Federico by
Piero della Francesca, Sposalizio della
Vergine by Raffaello, Madonna e Santi
by Foppa, Madonna con Bambino by
Lorenzetti, Cristo alla colonna by
Bramante, Cena di Emmaus by
Caravaggio, Bacio by Hayez, Carro
Rosso by Fattori. There are also
pictures by Modigliani, Boccioni, Moranti,
Rosso, Picasso, Braque