Here is where you will find posts about Milan, the capital of the region of Lombardy and Italy’s most international city.
Here is where you will find posts about Milan, the capital of the region of Lombardy and Italy’s most international city.
Maurizio Catellan's L.O.V.E., a provocative sculpture in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, is more than an irreverent gesture.
READ MORE +The Duomo is magnificent. But do you know what else to do in Milan? Here are three ideas for first time visitors to Milan.
READ MORE +The latest rankings of the best places to live in Italy.
READ MORE +Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera is a first class gallery on par with Italy's finest museums. The collection of Italian, mostly religious, art is spread out in 38 rooms and includes masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna, Piero Della Francesca, Raphael, and Caravaggio. Getting "lost" in front of ...
READ MORE +Get to know the Milano Duomo, the most famous landmark in Milan.
READ MORE +Help preserve the Gothic spires of the Milano Duomo via the Adopt a Spire initiative.
READ MORE +Dario Fo's "The Earthquake in L'Aquila" Calling Italian playwright Dario Fo a "Renaissance" man would probably irk him given his long history of questioning authority and mocking the status quo. But Fo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 (one of six Italians to have won the ...
READ MORE +Time to add two more Italian sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In July, UNESCO inscribed the Po Valley towns of Mantua and Sabbioneta and the Rhaetian Railway, which passes through the Swiss Alps into Tirano, Italy. Both new sites are located in the region of Lombardy. Palazzo Ducale ...
READ MORE +Large parts of Italy were once united under the Spanish flag, with conquests in Naples and Sicily by the houses of Aragon and Bourbon, among others. Even Milan and Parma were under Spanish rule at one point. I confess that I am not an expert on Spain's influence on Italy, so you may want to read ...
READ MORE +I'm very lucky. The very first time I tasted risotto was in Milan. We were en route to Verona and ate the creamy, saffron-tinted risotto milanese at the train station cafe. Even given the locale, it was still an epiphany. Apparently, I'm not the only one who has dreams about one of Milan's most ...
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