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Roots Earth in Milano: audio stories about 88 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 88 places in Milano, Italy, in Europe. The Milano stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Milano, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 88 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: milano.md

The 88 places in Milano with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Milan Cathedral (Duomo)
  2. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
  3. Teatro alla Scala
  4. Sforza Castle
  5. Santa Maria delle Grazie
  6. The Last Supper (Il Cenacolo)
  7. Pinacoteca di Brera
  8. Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio
  9. Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore
  10. Columns of San Lorenzo
  11. Parco Sempione
  12. Arco della Pace
  13. Navigli
  14. Brera District
  15. Quadrilatero della Moda
  16. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
  17. Museo del Novecento
  18. Torre Velasca
  19. Pirelli Tower (Pirellone)
  20. Bosco Verticale
  21. Piazza Gae Aulenti
  22. Monumental Cemetery
  23. San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore
  24. Ca' Granda (Ospedale Maggiore)
  25. San Siro Stadium
  26. Triennale di Milano
  27. Leonardo da Vinci Science Museum
  28. Villa Necchi Campiglio
  29. Gallerie d'Italia
  30. Piazza Mercanti
  31. San Bernardino alle Ossa
  32. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
  33. Rotonda della Besana
  34. Porta Nuova District
  35. Fondazione Prada
  36. Pirelli HangarBicocca
  37. Idroscalo
  38. Darsena (Milan)
  39. Vicolo dei Lavandai
  40. Porta Ticinese
  41. Via Paolo Sarpi
  42. Isola (district of Milan)
  43. Mercato Comunale Wagner
  44. Ortica
  45. Santuario di Santa Maria alla Fontana
  46. Parco delle Basiliche
  47. Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
  48. Vigna di Leonardo
  49. NoLo, Milan
  50. Piazza Affari
  51. Cascina Cuccagna
  52. Mercato Metropolitano
  53. Porta Venezia
  54. Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli
  55. Milano Centrale railway station
  56. Basilica of San Simpliciano
  57. Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo
  58. Church of San Fedele
  59. Santa Maria del Carmine
  60. Church of San Marco
  61. San Cristoforo sul Naviglio
  62. Sanctuary of Santa Maria dei Miracoli near San Celso
  63. Basilica of San Calimero
  64. Palazzo Litta
  65. Palazzo Clerici
  66. Palazzo Morando, Costume Moda Immagine
  67. Palazzo della Ragione (Broletto Nuovo)
  68. Palazzo Marino
  69. Palazzo Borromeo
  70. Palazzo Sormani
  71. Casa degli Omenoni
  72. Casa Campanini
  73. Casa Galimberti
  74. Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
  75. Poldi Pezzoli Museum
  76. Boschi Di Stefano House Museum
  77. Villa Invernizzi
  78. Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte (Gallery of Modern Art)
  79. Teatro Gerolamo
  80. Teatro Carcano
  81. Teatro Dal Verme
  82. Piazza Cordusio
  83. Brera Botanical Garden
  84. Crypt of San Giovanni in Conca
  85. Palazzo Archinto
  86. Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber
  87. Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia
  88. Villa Mirabello

Is there an audio guide for Milan Cathedral (Duomo)?

Yes. Milan Cathedral (Duomo) has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 88 Milano places in the app, at 45.46416667, 9.19138889. Every one of the other 87 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Milano

Open Roots Earth and choose Milano. The city has its own map of places with all 88 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 88 places in Milano, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 88 places in Milano, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Milan Cathedral (Duomo)

Coordinates
45.46416667, 9.19138889
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Milan's vast Gothic cathedral, begun in 1386 and finished nearly six centuries later. Faced in pale Candoglia marble and crowned by spires and the golden Madonnina, it is the spiritual heart of the city.

2. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Coordinates
45.46555556, 9.19
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An ornate glass-and-iron shopping arcade built between 1865 and 1877 and named for Italy's first king. Linking the cathedral square to the opera house, it shelters luxury shops and historic cafes beneath a soaring domed roof, and is nicknamed Milan's drawing room.

3. Teatro alla Scala

Coordinates
45.4675, 9.18916667
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One of the world's most celebrated opera houses, opened in 1778 and designed by Giuseppe Piermarini. It saw premieres by Verdi, Puccini, and Rossini, was rebuilt after wartime bombing, and remains a defining stage of Italian opera, opening each season on Saint Ambrose day.

4. Sforza Castle

Coordinates
45.47, 9.17861111
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A massive fortress first built by the Visconti in the fourteenth century and rebuilt by Francesco Sforza in the fifteenth. Once decorated by Leonardo and Bramante, it now houses Milan's civic museums, including Michelangelo's final, unfinished sculpture, the Rondanini Pieta.

5. Santa Maria delle Grazie

Coordinates
45.46583333, 9.17111111
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A fifteenth-century Dominican church combining Gothic and Renaissance design, with an apse and dome by Bramante commissioned by Ludovico Sforza. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, its convent refectory holds Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, which survived wartime bombing in 1943.

6. The Last Supper (Il Cenacolo)

Coordinates
45.46666667, 9.17083333
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Leonardo da Vinci's mural of Christ's final meal, painted between 1495 and 1498 on a refectory wall at Santa Maria delle Grazie. Created with an experimental technique that left it fragile, much restored, it remains one of the most studied paintings in the world.

7. Pinacoteca di Brera

Coordinates
45.47194444, 9.18805556
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A leading art gallery founded under Napoleon and opened in 1809, housed in the Palazzo Brera. It holds masterpieces of Italian painting by Raphael, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio, and Hayez, and shares its palace with the historic Brera Academy of Fine Arts.

8. Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio

Coordinates
45.46235, 9.17563
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One of Milan's oldest churches, founded by Saint Ambrose in the fourth century and rebuilt in brick around 1080 as a landmark of Lombard Romanesque. It guards the saint's tomb, an early medieval golden altar, and the city's patronal heart.

9. Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore

Coordinates
45.4582, 9.18207
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A late Roman basilica from around the fourth century and one of Milan's oldest churches, built with stone reused from the imperial city. Its domed central plan and the early Christian mosaics of the Chapel of Sant'Aquilino make it a rare survivor of imperial Mediolanum.

10. Columns of San Lorenzo

Coordinates
45.4582, 9.181
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A colonnade of sixteen Corinthian marble columns from a Roman building of the second century, moved here in the fourth to front the Basilica of San Lorenzo. Among the few standing remains of Roman Milan, the square is now a favourite evening gathering place.

11. Parco Sempione

Coordinates
45.4728, 9.1768
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Milan's great central park, laid out from 1888 as an English-style landscape garden on a former military parade ground. Stretching between the Sforza Castle and the Arch of Peace, it gathers monuments, a panoramic tower, an aquarium, and shaded lawns within the old city walls.

12. Arco della Pace

Coordinates
45.47556, 9.1724
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A neoclassical triumphal arch of marble at the edge of Parco Sempione, designed by Luigi Cagnola. Begun in 1807 to glorify Napoleon and completed in 1838 as the Arch of Peace, it is crowned by a bronze chariot drawn by six horses.

13. Navigli

Coordinates
45.45148, 9.17956
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Milan's historic network of navigable canals, begun in the twelfth century to carry goods, irrigate fields, and even float marble to build the Duomo. Largely covered over in the centre, the surviving Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese now form one of Milan's liveliest waterside districts.

14. Brera District

Coordinates
45.4719, 9.1879
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Milan's historic bohemian quarter, sometimes called the Montmartre of the city for its narrow cobbled streets, galleries, and artistic life. At its centre stands the Palazzo Brera, home to a renowned art gallery, a fine arts academy, a national library, an observatory, and a garden.

15. Quadrilatero della Moda

Coordinates
45.46857, 9.1956
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Milan's luxury fashion district, bounded by four elegant streets centred on Via Montenapoleone. Flagship boutiques of the world's leading designers fill its palazzi, making it one of the most exclusive shopping quarters anywhere.

16. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

Coordinates
45.4631, 9.1854
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Milan's oldest art gallery, founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo in the early seventeenth century alongside one of Europe's first public libraries. It holds masterworks by Leonardo, Caravaggio, Raphael, and Botticelli.

17. Museo del Novecento

Coordinates
45.46358, 9.1903
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A museum of twentieth-century art beside the cathedral square, opened in 2010 inside the Arengario palace. Its spiral ramp, Futurist masterpieces, and rooftop views of the Duomo draw art lovers and architecture fans alike.

18. Torre Velasca

Coordinates
45.45878, 9.1913
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A landmark 1950s tower by the BBPR studio, instantly recognisable for its top-heavy, mushroom-like silhouette. Its flared upper floors and supporting struts echo medieval Lombard fortresses, making it one of Milan's most debated buildings.

19. Pirelli Tower (Pirellone)

Coordinates
45.48472222, 9.20138889
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An elegant 1950s skyscraper by Gio Ponti and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, once the tallest building in Italy. Its slim, tapering form became a symbol of Milan's postwar revival and now houses the Lombardy regional government.

20. Bosco Verticale

Coordinates
45.4856, 9.1909
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Two residential towers in the Porta Nuova district whose balconies hold hundreds of trees and thousands of plants. Designed by Stefano Boeri and completed in 2014, this award-winning vertical forest pioneered green high-rise architecture.

21. Piazza Gae Aulenti

Coordinates
45.4842, 9.1903
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A raised circular square in the Porta Nuova district, opened in 2012 and named after architect Gae Aulenti. Overlooked by the UniCredit Tower, Italy's tallest building, it has become a symbol of contemporary Milan.

22. Monumental Cemetery

Coordinates
45.485831, 9.179056
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An open-air gallery of grief and ambition, where Milan's wealthiest families competed in marble. Bronze angels, miniature temples, and brooding sculptures crowd a city of the dead built to outlast everyone in it.

23. San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore

Coordinates
45.465502, 9.178921
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A plain grey facade hides walls drenched in colour. Every surface inside glows with Renaissance frescoes, earning this former convent church its nickname as the Sistine Chapel of Milan.

24. Ca' Granda (Ospedale Maggiore)

Coordinates
45.46, 9.1924
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A Renaissance duke's grand idea: one enormous hospital to replace dozens of small ones. Today its warm brick courtyards and terracotta arches shelter university students instead of the sick.

25. San Siro Stadium

Coordinates
45.47805556, 9.12388889
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Eleven great towers and a crown of red girders rise over the roar of eighty thousand fans. Two fierce rivals share this temple of Italian football, fittingly nicknamed the Scala of the game.

26. Triennale di Milano

Coordinates
45.4724, 9.174
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Italy's temple of design sits in green parkland, a clean-lined palace where chairs, lamps, and bold ideas are treated as art. Here the everyday object becomes a thing worth studying.

27. Leonardo da Vinci Science Museum

Coordinates
45.46211, 9.17075
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Inside an old monastery, Italy's largest science museum brings Leonardo's notebooks to life as wooden machines, then sweeps you through trains, planes, and a real submarine you can step inside.

28. Villa Necchi Campiglio

Coordinates
45.4693, 9.2024
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A sleek nineteen-thirties villa of polished wood, rare marble, and a private heated pool. Built for a sewing-machine dynasty, it preserves the glamour of Milan's industrial elite behind a quiet garden wall.

29. Gallerie d'Italia

Coordinates
45.4671, 9.1896
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A museum of 19th and 20th-century Italian art set in grand former bank palaces on Piazza della Scala. From Canova to Boccioni, it traces two centuries of Lombard and Italian painting and sculpture inside opulent restored interiors.

30. Piazza Mercanti

Coordinates
45.46495278, 9.18795556
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Milan's medieval heart, this hidden square was once the city's bustling civic and commercial center. Ringed by a 13th-century town hall, a soaring loggia, and centuries-old palaces, it feels like a pocket of the Middle Ages just steps from the Duomo.

31. San Bernardino alle Ossa

Coordinates
45.46255278, 9.19561111
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A small Milanese church famous for its bone chapel, where walls and pillars are arranged with human skulls and bones gathered from a medieval cemetery. Solemn, strange, and unforgettable, it turns death itself into an act of devotion.

32. Santa Maria presso San Satiro

Coordinates
45.46264722, 9.18803333
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A modest Renaissance church hiding one of art's great optical tricks. Bramante had only a metre of space for the choir, so he painted and sculpted a deep, vaulted apse that does not exist, fooling the eye for more than five centuries.

33. Rotonda della Besana

Coordinates
45.4601, 9.2064
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A serene 18th-century complex of a small central church wrapped in a circular arcaded portico. Once the cemetery of Milan's great hospital, it is now a green, walled oasis used for exhibitions and family culture.

34. Porta Nuova District

Coordinates
45.47988889, 9.19256389
In one line
Milan's gleaming modern skyline, where one of Europe's biggest urban regeneration projects rose from abandoned rail yards. Soaring glass towers, the tree-clad Vertical Forest, and the raised Piazza Gae Aulenti mark the city's bold leap into the 21st century.

35. Fondazione Prada

Coordinates
45.4376, 9.2052
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A bold contemporary art center where a former distillery meets daring new architecture by Rem Koolhaas. Gold-leafed walls, a striking white tower, and a Wes Anderson-designed cafe make it one of Milan's most adventurous cultural destinations.

36. Pirelli HangarBicocca

Coordinates
45.5103, 9.2164
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A cavernous former factory on Milan's industrial fringe, now one of Europe's most ambitious spaces for contemporary art. Inside stand seven leaning concrete towers, a permanent cathedral of rust and shadow you can walk straight into.

37. Idroscalo

Coordinates
45.46175556, 9.28851111
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An artificial lake on Milan's eastern edge, dug between the wars as a base for seaplanes. The aircraft are long gone; today landlocked Milanese call it their sea, rowing, swimming, and sunbathing along its banks.

38. Darsena (Milan)

Coordinates
45.45148, 9.17956
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Milan's old inland port, where the canals once met to unload marble and grain. The barges are gone; now the wide basin fills each evening with the clink of spritz glasses and the slow drift of the after-work crowd.

39. Vicolo dei Lavandai

Coordinates
45.4526, 9.1764
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A short canal-side lane where Milan once did its laundry. Under a sloping wooden roof, the old communal wash-house still leans over the water, its stone slabs worn smooth by generations of hands scrubbing the city clean.

40. Porta Ticinese

Coordinates
45.4536, 9.1817
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Two gates guard the road south, a brick medieval arch and a cool neoclassical screen of columns. Between and around them runs the Ticinese, the city's most easygoing quarter, where students, artists, and night owls have claimed the old gateway as their own.

41. Via Paolo Sarpi

Coordinates
45.4803, 9.1776
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Europe's oldest Chinatown began here, on a street where Chinese families have traded for a century. Today it is a pedestrian artery of steaming dumplings, bubble tea, and Mandarin signs, one of Milan's most quietly multicultural quarters.

42. Isola (district of Milan)

Coordinates
45.487, 9.189
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A working-class "island" long cut off by the rail yards, where artisans and factory workers built a world apart. Now glass towers loom over its low streets, and the old neighbourhood balances its grit against a wave of galleries, bars, and new money.

43. Mercato Comunale Wagner

Coordinates
45.4671, 9.1544
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A covered neighbourhood market where Milanesi have shopped for generations, its tiled stalls heaped with glistening fish, ripe cheeses, and bright produce. This is where the city eats, away from the postcard squares.

44. Ortica

Coordinates
45.4693, 9.2434
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A quiet old railway-workers' village on Milan's eastern edge, where huge painted walls tell the neighbourhood's own story: the workers, the partisans, the singers, the everyday people history usually forgets.

45. Santuario di Santa Maria alla Fontana

Coordinates
45.4908, 9.1876
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A Renaissance sanctuary built over a spring once believed to heal. Descend the stairs to the lower shrine, where water still flows into stone basins beneath the church, cool and quiet and almost forgotten.

46. Parco delle Basiliche

Coordinates
45.4568, 9.1826
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Green lawns between two ancient basilicas, where Milanesi sunbathe and walk their dogs. The peace is recent: for centuries this ground was the city's place of public execution.

47. Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio

Coordinates
45.45427, 9.18204
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An ancient basilica that once held the relics of the Three Kings, marked still by a star atop its tower instead of a cross. Inside waits the Portinari Chapel, one of the great jewels of the early Renaissance.

48. Vigna di Leonardo

Coordinates
45.4662, 9.1715
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A walled vineyard once given to Leonardo da Vinci, hidden behind a Renaissance house just across from the Last Supper. Replanted from its original vines, it survives as a secret green pocket in the heart of the city.

49. NoLo, Milan

Coordinates
45.4919, 9.2156
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North of Loreto, a once-overlooked working-class and migrant quarter has become one of Milan's most alive neighbourhoods, where old hardware shops, world groceries, and new cafés share the same loud, mixed streets.

50. Piazza Affari

Coordinates
45.46518, 9.18289
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The square in front of Milan's stock exchange, defined since 2010 by Maurizio Cattelan's giant marble hand. Every finger is severed except the middle one, a mutilated salute raised straight at the temple of Italian finance.

51. Cascina Cuccagna

Coordinates
45.4533, 9.2113
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A seventeenth-century farmstead near Porta Romana, rescued from ruin by local residents and reopened in 2012 as a community hub. It now holds a farmers market, an osteria, gardens and workshops, a surviving patch of rural Milan inside the ring.

52. Mercato Metropolitano

Coordinates
45.4513, 9.1865
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A sprawling food market in the former railway warehouses beside Porta Genova station. Opened in 2015 around the world fair, it gathers small producers, street food and craft drinks in old industrial sheds, a favourite weekend haunt for young Milan.

53. Porta Venezia

Coordinates
45.4741, 9.2051
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A neoclassical city gate and the lively district around it, famous for its Liberty-style architecture. Today Porta Venezia is the heart of Milan's Eritrean and Ethiopian community and the centre of its LGBTQ life, a meeting of cultures in one neighbourhood.

54. Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli

Coordinates
45.4728, 9.1984
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Milan's oldest public park, laid out in 1784 near Porta Venezia and later reshaped as an English landscape garden. Its winding paths, lakes and old trees shelter the Natural History Museum and a planetarium, and the city named it for journalist Indro Montanelli.

55. Milano Centrale railway station

Coordinates
45.4862, 9.2048
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Milan's colossal main railway station, inaugurated in 1931 to a design by Ulisse Stacchini. Its monumental stone facade and vast steel-and-glass train sheds make it one of Europe's grandest stations and the daily threshold through which the city arrives and departs.

56. Basilica of San Simpliciano

Coordinates
45.473888, 9.184474
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One of four basilicas founded by Saint Ambrose in the fourth century and completed by Bishop Simplician. Hidden in Brera, its towering original walls make it among the best-preserved early Christian buildings in the Mediterranean.

57. Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo

Coordinates
45.458611, 9.1925
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An early Christian basilica founded by Saint Ambrose in the 380s as the Basilica Apostolorum. Rebuilt in Romanesque style after a fire, it guards the striking Renaissance Trivulzio funerary chapel by Bramantino.

58. Church of San Fedele

Coordinates
45.466804, 9.191473
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A monumental Jesuit church begun in 1569 to designs by Pellegrino Tibaldi, commissioned by Charles Borromeo. Its severe single nave is a landmark of Counter-Reformation Milan, and the writer Alessandro Manzoni worshipped here.

59. Santa Maria del Carmine

Coordinates
45.470556, 9.186111
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A Carmelite church in the heart of Brera, built in brick from the late fourteenth century onward. Behind Carlo Maciachini's grand neo-Gothic facade of 1880 lies a soaring medieval interior of clustered piers and Baroque chapels.

60. Church of San Marco

Coordinates
45.473333, 9.188889
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An Augustinian church in Brera founded in 1254 and later given a grand Baroque interior. Mozart once lodged here, and in 1874 Verdi premiered his Requiem for Manzoni within its walls.

61. San Cristoforo sul Naviglio

Coordinates
45.447711, 9.154749
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A medieval church on the bank of the Naviglio Grande, made of two adjoining buildings. Beside the older church stands the Ducal Chapel, built around 1400 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti as thanks for the end of a plague.

62. Sanctuary of Santa Maria dei Miracoli near San Celso

Coordinates
45.454599, 9.187647
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A Renaissance sanctuary begun in 1493 to shelter a miraculous image of the Madonna. Behind its grand classical portico rise an octagonal dome by Amadeo and a richly carved Mannerist façade, still a beloved place of pilgrimage.

63. Basilica of San Calimero

Coordinates
45.456626, 9.192955
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One of Milan's oldest churches, founded in the fifth century over an early-Christian burial ground and dedicated to a second-century martyr-bishop. Heavily rebuilt in 1882, it still guards an ancient crypt and the relics of Saint Calimerius.

64. Palazzo Litta

Coordinates
45.466053, 9.178154
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A grand Baroque palace on Corso Magenta, begun in 1642 for Count Bartolomeo Arese. Its flamboyant Rococo façade, twin atlantes, and dramatic forked staircase make it one of Milan's most theatrical noble residences.

65. Palazzo Clerici

Coordinates
45.4668, 9.18712
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An eighteenth-century palace near Brera, transformed by the wealthy Clerici family. Its famous Galleria degli Arazzi is crowned by a dazzling 1741 ceiling fresco by Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the masterpieces of Milanese Rococo.

66. Palazzo Morando, Costume Moda Immagine

Coordinates
45.468757, 9.196414
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An elegant eighteenth-century palace in Milan's fashion quarter, with frescoed rooms and a noble apartment. Bequeathed to the city in 1945, it now houses Costume Moda Immagine, a museum of fashion, costume, and historic views of Milan.

67. Palazzo della Ragione (Broletto Nuovo)

Coordinates
45.464872, 9.187822
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The medieval heart of civic Milan, built between 1228 and 1233 as the city's broletto, or town hall. Rising on stone arcades in Piazza Mercanti, it hosted assemblies and justice and bears the ancient half-woolly sow, emblem of the city.

68. Palazzo Marino

Coordinates
45.466497, 9.190686
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A grand sixteenth-century Mannerist palazzo on Piazza della Scala, built for a Genoese banker and serving as Milan's city hall since 1861. Its richly carved courtyard is among the finest in the city.

69. Palazzo Borromeo

Coordinates
45.4634, 9.1822
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A late-Gothic palace of the powerful Borromeo banking family, hidden on a quiet square. Its courtyard preserves rare fifteenth-century frescoes of courtly games, among the finest secular paintings of the age.

70. Palazzo Sormani

Coordinates
45.462147, 9.198036
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A handsome palace with a sweeping late-Baroque facade, home since 1956 to Milan's central public library. Behind it lies a quiet garden and an elegant neoclassical rear front overlooking the green.

71. Casa degli Omenoni

Coordinates
45.467272, 9.191883
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A sixteenth-century house built by the sculptor Leone Leoni for himself, its facade carried by eight giant carved figures, the omenoni, that give the street and the building their name.

72. Casa Campanini

Coordinates
45.4657, 9.2041
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An exuberant Art Nouveau apartment house near Porta Venezia, built by the architect Alfredo Campanini as his own home. Flowing floral stonework, caryatids, and wrought iron make it a jewel of Milanese Liberty style.

73. Casa Galimberti

Coordinates
45.474686, 9.207017
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A Liberty-style apartment house near Porta Venezia whose facade is covered in painted ceramic tiles. Built in the early 1900s, its tiled figures and floral scenes make it one of Milan's most colorful buildings.

74. Bagatti Valsecchi Museum

Coordinates
45.469481, 9.194979
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A perfectly preserved 19th-century house museum in the heart of Milan's fashion district, where two aristocratic brothers recreated a Renaissance home and filled it with Italian art, armor, and decorative treasures.

75. Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Coordinates
45.468664, 9.191583
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One of Italy's finest house museums, the former home of a nineteenth-century nobleman who filled it with Renaissance masterpieces, arms, and decorative arts, then left it to the city as a public gallery.

76. Boschi Di Stefano House Museum

Coordinates
45.479035, 9.211752
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A 1930s apartment by architect Piero Portaluppi, hung wall to wall with one of Italy's great private collections of twentieth-century art, gathered by a Milanese couple and left to the city.

77. Villa Invernizzi

Coordinates
45.470789, 9.202116
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A private Liberty-style villa in Milan's tranquil Quadrilatero del Silenzio, famous for the colony of pink flamingos that has lived in its hidden garden since the 1970s, visible from the street.

78. Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte (Gallery of Modern Art)

Coordinates
45.4725, 9.199722
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A grand Neoclassical villa of the 1790s, once home to Napoleon's viceroy, set in an English garden and now housing Milan's Gallery of Modern Art with works by Hayez, Canova, and Segantini.

79. Teatro Gerolamo

Coordinates
45.464175, 9.194555
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A jewel-box theatre of 1868 near Piazza Beccaria, fondly nicknamed the "little Scala," long famous for its marionette shows and Milanese dialect theatre, restored and reopened in 2017 after decades of closure.

80. Teatro Carcano

Coordinates
45.456111, 9.195
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A neoclassical theatre on Corso di Porta Romana, opened in 1803 as an elegant rival to La Scala. It staged premieres by Bellini and Donizetti, and still hosts drama and music today.

81. Teatro Dal Verme

Coordinates
45.467222, 9.181389
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A grand 19th-century theatre near the Castello, opened in 1872 and once seating three thousand. It hosted the premiere of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and now serves as a concert hall.

82. Piazza Cordusio

Coordinates
45.465586, 9.185944
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An elliptical square ringed by grand banks and palaces, laid out around 1900 as Milan's financial heart. Its name recalls a Lombard ducal court that once stood here.

83. Brera Botanical Garden

Coordinates
45.4722, 9.1889
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A hidden botanical garden behind the Brera palace, founded in 1774 under Empress Maria Theresa. Its geometric beds, old ponds, and ancient ginkgo trees make a quiet green refuge in central Milan.

84. Crypt of San Giovanni in Conca

Coordinates
45.460833, 9.188333
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A Romanesque crypt beneath Piazza Missori, all that remains intact of a vanished medieval church. It is the only surviving crypt of its kind in Milan, once part of the Visconti family's private chapel.

85. Palazzo Archinto

Coordinates
45.4608, 9.183
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A 17th-century Milanese palace, once home to Tiepolo's first great ceiling frescoes outside Venice. The frescoes were destroyed by wartime bombing in 1943, leaving only photographs and a single fragment.

86. Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber

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45.461483, 9.191844
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A historic Milan theatre opened in 1779 as the Teatro alla Canobbiana, twin to La Scala. Rebuilt after fire, long shuttered, then restored and reopened in 2021 as the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber.

87. Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia

Coordinates
45.48892, 9.22658
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A fifteenth-century abbey church in Milan's Casoretto district, founded in 1404 and built around 1470 under the Solari workshop. Known as the White Madonna of Casoretto, it later became an abbey in 1566.

88. Villa Mirabello

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45.49678, 9.1979
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A rare fifteenth-century country villa surviving in Milan's Maggiolina district. Bought by Pigello Portinari on 5 May 1467, the Medici Bank's local director, it once hosted Ludovico il Moro and later sheltered war-blinded veterans.

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