Some assorted scenes from 3 days walking to the various Milan sights...
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Fashion capital of Italy; central piazza |
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Pigeons showing no respect for King Victor Emmanuel |
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So if Dante had come to Milan, and if he had smoked
cigars (Toscanos?), this is what he would have looked like |
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Spring time, many beautiful tree-lined streets |
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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 |
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Lots of attention-getting bigger buildings |
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We'd read there was some art nouveau in Milano and indeed saw some |
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Thus |
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One afternoon we just rode a street car for an hour or so to see some of the
everyday bits |
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Back downtown |
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The house Verdi built |
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Famous municipal statue of Mr. Smoky |
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In the vast and beautiful Victor Emmanuel arcade...what fashion guys are wearing
in Milan |
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After the Last Supper and the street-car ride, we walked over to the immense
15th century Sforza Castle |
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Immense but not very interesting |
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Helpful map... |
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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 |
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Next day street market, mostly coins and stamps here |
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Another art nouveau; note grill-work: Guimard would have
been proud |
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Another biggie |
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Green condos |
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And Milan's tallest, the Unicredit building, mimicking, I think, the Burj Khalifa |
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New and old, fartsy and artsy |
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