Milan is the financial heart of Italy with the widest stock exchange, the most European and international city in Italy.
Even if it is not a preferred destination for turists, is rich of history and then of surprises.
Worth a visit:
the very impressive Duomo, a great example of the Lombardic Gothic style. The cathedral started being built in 1386 and was completed in 1965, with the structure entirely made of marble and rosewood doors.
Inside the famous Cenacolo Da Vinci, Leonardo's masterpiece Last Supper.
The Galleria, which stands next to the Duomo is said to be the lounge of Milan.
The imposing Castle
just in the center of the town, it became model for the construction of the Kremlin, care of Italian architects in Moscow from 1485 onwards.
Milan originally had many channels running through it. They have since been covered up - they were too expensive to maintain - but the city remains a little humid. A large sheet of water is the Idroscalo of Milan, once the port connected trough this net of channels to the river PO, and used to discharge the goods coming from the Adriatic sea, now destination for families during the hot week ends in summer.
At the centre of the industrialized Lombardy Region, Milano is home of the most important companies operating on the national territory.
Not properly a tourist town but a good base to explore the Region, both in the southern part where are ineresting industrial towns rich of history such as Cremona, Piacenza, Bergamo and Brescia, and few km to the north, at the foot of the Alps where there are the Como and Maggiore lakes, one among the best areas representing the beauty of Italy.
The Como Lake
The Maggiore Lake
