Palazzo Mezzanotte, the historic location of Milan's stock exchange, is a fitting symbol for the city's business vocation. Before the Palazzo was built, trading in commodities, stocks and shares took place in various places, including Piazza dei...
The church of San Calimero has an elegant and somber linear style. Over the centuries architects have intervened on the structure many times and, nowadays, what we admire is mainly the result of the main transformation that took place at the end...
The Church of Santa Maria Incoronata has a special feature that immediately strikes the visitor: it consists of two buildings, originally separate, merged together in 1484. The first, which corresponds to the present right aisle, was built upon...
The Unicredit tower, which opened in December 2012, consists of three buildings arranged in a semicircle around the new Piazza Gae Aulenti. Each of these three buildings reaches dizzying heights, respectively, 231 metres with the imposing spire,...
The museum was opened in 1995, on occasion of the famous company’s 150th anniversary. It is in premises covering 800 square metres, and it includes all the sectors of traditional distillery operation: herbal laboratories, barrel production, right...
The sculpture depicts a gigantic needle with a multicoloured thread, and a knot that appears in a fountain in another part of the piazza. Created by Claes Oldenburg, artist of Swedish origins, and Coosje van Bruggen, born in Holland, the work was...
Built by the architect Luigi Canonica and inaugurated in 1803, this theatre has played host to performances of different kinds and with all the great divi of the time, from Paganini and Pasta to Malibran. Here, in 1893, Carlo Bertolazzi’s El nost...
Designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Bossi in 1903 on behalf of the brothers Galimberti, it is considered one of the most brilliant pieces of Liberty in Milan, thanks to the coating of large part of the exterior facade with figurative...
The Palazzo was designed in 1648 by Francesco Maria Richino commissioned by G.B. Durini, member of a family of merchants. The façade is traversed with frames that delineate the different internal levels of the ground floor, first floor and two...
In the heart of old Milan, in a district known in the 17th century as the “Contrada del prestino (forno) dei Bossi”, this building is the result of Marquis Giorgio Antonio Clerici’s decision to extend an existing building in the early 18th...
Tulip trees and wild linden form the backdrop for the stone balustrade that surrounds the pond. Splendid in every detail, Parco Guastalla is ideal for lovers of the outdoors, perhaps for a jog, or a bike ride. The gardens have a playground for...
The building is an important example of Milanese liberty. It was designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Bossi in 1904 on behalf of the Cav. Giacomo Guazzoni.
The decorations of the ceilings have been recently restored.
The driveway...
The architect Maurizio Garavaglia designed the present structure in 1864, replacing a church from 1500s of the same name located a nearby site. An engraving of the former church by Marc'Antonio Dal Re exists. The prior church had an iconic...
The new Bocconi University building, located between Viale Bligny and Via Röntgen, is a good example of contemporary Milan. Its well-orchestrated architectural language, with carefully calibrated detailing and characteristics, expresses the...
In Piazza Missori, part of the apse and crypt of the Basilica of San Giovanni in Conca are still standing, a Romanesque church reconstructed between the 11th and 13th centuries on the ruins of one of the most important sites of Milanese...
Palazzo del Senato is the location of Milan’s State Archive. This is a fascinating collection of documents, providing living testimony of important historical events in the city, and long-lost habits and customs from the Longobard epoch to...
In the early fifteenth century Palazzo Borromeo was like a "town settlement" consisting of the owner’s nucleus, around which were aggregated smaller courtyards, offices, warehouses, guest apartments and more modest housing for subordinates. This...
The hectic city scenario pauses every now and then. Piazzas and pretty small squares can be stumbled upon, breaking up the monotony of streets and intersections. The former church of San Paolo Converso alle Monache almost lurks in Piazza Santa...
Inside the house where Manzoni once lived, everything seems to be frozen in time. There is an evocative atmosphere inside the rooms where the author wrote some of the most influential works in Italian literature. All Italian schoolchildren study...
Not far from the entrance of the Università Cattolica of Milan lies one of the most original monuments in Milan that stands out and draws the eye to a special piece of history. It is the Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, built in 1939 by Gino...
Palazzo Annoni (also known as Palazzo Annoni-Cicogna Mozzoni) is a 17th-century Baroque building in Milan. The construction of the building began in 1631 on a design by architect Francesco Maria Richini for the rich silk merchant Paolo Annoni....
Piazzale Cadorna is a strategic location, a central node of the city, with the Ferrovie Nord railway station, two Metro lines, many tram and bus routes, and the rail links to Malpensa airport. The whole square, and the station itself, were...
Built in 1562 to a design by Vincenzo Seregni, with later modifications by architects Carlo Buzzi, Galeazzo Alessi and others, Palazzo dei Giureconsulti was located in what was then Piazza dei Mercanti, on the site of a previous building, Palazzo...
The Teatro Lirico (known until 1894 as the Teatro alla Canobbiana) is a theatre in Milan, Italy. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was particularly notable for opera performances, including the world premieres of Donizetti's L'elisir...
Built by Barnabite monks in the 9th century on the ruins of the praetorium, where tradition has it that the martyr St. Alexander was held prisoner, the church has a centralised plan with a cupola that serves as a presbytery. The building is...
A fine example of industrial architecture, this depot dates back to 1912 and it is the oldest of its type in Milan. It has recently been refurbished, and it consists of a central structure in iron columns and girders which support a roof in...
The building was set up as a convent for the brothers of the Third Order of Saint Francis who lived here from the first half of the 16th century. The architecture of the church is mainly original, built by the Franciscans and designed by Martino...
The Ca' de Sass (in Milanese: "house of stone") is a monumental 19th century building of Milan, Italy, located close to the city centre, at numbers 6 and 8 of Via Monte di Pietà. It used to be the seat of CARIPLO, a former Italian bank, now...
The Palazzo was previously one of the most luxurious family houses in 18th-century Milan. The imposing façade is virtually unique, when compared to other aristocratic buildings. It now hosts the Public Library (Biblioteca Centrale...
Torre Breda (English: Breda Tower) is a 30-storey, 117 m (384 ft) skyscraper in Milan, Italy. The tower was built in 1954 on a design by architect Luigi Mattioni. The eight floors of the lower body are devoted exclusively to offices, while the...
Soft lighting and silent. A perfect environment for the sacredness of the museum adjacent to the Basilica di Sant’Eustorgio, one of the most important works of Lombardy Gothic. The museum houses a small repertory of 57 works that trace the...
Some of the most elegant buildings in the city can be found in Corso di Porta Venezia. Between ancient palazzos which represent the Liberty architectural style from the end of 1800 and fashionable shop windows there is Palazzo Fontana (now...
The Church of San Pietro in Gessate is an example of Lombardian art that followed an upsurge of faith and devotion. The structure was erected when the monastic order of Benedictines arrived around the mid XV century, (between 1447 and 1475), on...
The Basilica of St Stefano Maggiore is situated in the heart of the Verziere. It is an ancient church of the city whose origins date back to 400 AD. It was originally dedicated to San Zaccaria and only later, in the tenth century, to Santo...
Financial centre of the city, it gains its name from the latin Curtis Duci, that means “seat of the Duke” in the Longbard age. It’s the seat of many banks and it boasts a lot of important palaces that date back to the beginning of the ‘900, such...
The elegance, rigor and “cleanness” of its forms are what makes this building one of the city’s architectural treasures. The work of Giuseppe Piermarini, Palazzo Belgioioso is considered one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in...
Casa Panigarola (or Casa dei Panigarola), also known as Palazzo dei Notai ("Palace of the Notaries"), is a historic building of Milan, Italy, located in Piazza Mercanti, former city centre in the Middle Ages. It is named after the House of...
The Palace of the Palatine School (in Italian: Palazzo delle Scuole Palatine, or just Scuole Palatine) is a historic building of Milan, Italy, located in Piazza Mercanti, the former city centre in the Middle Ages. It served as the seat of the...
There is little information about the early period of the Church. The first document found dates back to 1608, during the visit of Cardinal Federico Borromeo.
The first reconstruction of S. Nicolao was by Giovanni Quadrio, who created an...
A solitary pillar of Baveno stone stands amongst the urban traffic; it was built in 1612 as a votive offering for the end of the plague in 1577. Christ the Redeemer, designed by Francesco Maria Richini, stands at the top of the pillar above the...