Milan: The Assorted Scenes

Some assorted scenes from 3 days walking to the various Milan sights...

Fashion capital of Italy; central piazza

Pigeons showing no respect for King Victor Emmanuel

So if Dante had come to Milan, and if he had smoked
cigars (Toscanos?), this is what he would have looked like

Spring time, many beautiful tree-lined streets

In-town scene, the station where we transferred from the suburban light-rail to
the Milan metro: the red thing there is a Ferrari; we camped, as it were, at the
New Park Milano area sosta, two stops up the line, really only 3-4 miles from
the centro

Lots of attention-getting bigger buildings

We'd read there was some art nouveau in Milano and indeed saw some

Thus

One afternoon we just rode a street car for an hour or so to see some of the
everyday bits

Back downtown

Outside La Scala, which I toured in 2011

The house Verdi built

Famous municipal statue of Mr. Smoky

In the vast and beautiful Victor Emmanuel arcade...what fashion guys are wearing
in Milan 

After the Last Supper and the street-car ride, we walked over to the immense
15th century Sforza Castle

Immense but not very interesting

Helpful map...

At the Sforza, we thought we'd take in the Michaelangelo
pieta sculpture there, thus bagging both a Mr. Smoky and
a Mr. Twisty in a single day; but it was not to be: the free
viewings after 4:30 PM have been discontinued, and we
were not about to spend actual money to see a barely
worked on Mr. Twisty

Next day street market, mostly coins and stamps here

Another art nouveau; note grill-work: Guimard would have
been proud

Another biggie

Green condos

And Milan's tallest, the Unicredit building, mimicking, I think, the Burj Khalifa

New and old, fartsy and artsy