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2 Galleria Vittorio
Emanuele II and
Highline Galleria
Piazza della Scala, Piazza del Duomo.
Map 7 C1. q 1, 3 Duomo. Highline
Galleria ticket office: Via Silvio Pellico 2
(4th Floor). Tel 02-45 39 76 56.
Open 10am–9pm daily (summer:
10am–11pm daily). Closed 1 Jan,
1 May, 2 Jun, 25 & 26 Dec.
∑ highlinegalleria.com
The Galleria is an elegant
arcade lined with cafés, shops
and a famous restaurant, Savini
(see p170). Work began in 1865,
overseen by the architect San Fedele church overlooking Piazza San Fedele
Giuseppe Mengoni, and it
was opened two years later by till late in the evening all year 5 San Fedele
the king, Vittorio Emanuele II, round and can be booked from Piazza San Fedele. Map 3 C5. Tel 02-86
after whom it was named. the office in Via Silvio Pellico. 35 22 15. q 1, 3 Duomo. v 1. @
The gallery was designed to 61. Open 7:30am–1:15pm, 4:30–6pm
connect Piazza del Duomo Mon–Fri. 5 7:50am, 12:45pm Mon–
and Piazza della Scala, and 3 Teatro alla Scala Fri; 6:30pm Sat; 11am, 7pm Sun.
formed part of an ambitious
urban renewal project. On See pp54–5. This church is the Milanese
the floor in the central seat of the Jesuit Order,
octagonal area, directly under commissioned by San Carlo
the 47-m- (154-ft-) high glass 4 Palazzo Marino Borromeo from Pellegrino Tibaldi
dome, is the heraldic symbol Piazza della Scala. Map 3 C5. in 1569. The work was continued
of the Savoy family, a white q 1, 3 Duomo. Closed to the public. by Martino Bassi and the dome,
cross on a red ground. Around crypt and choir were designed
it are the arms of four major This palazzo was designed in by Francesco Maria Richini
Italian cities: the bull of Turin, 1558 by Galeazzo Alessi for (1633–52). With its austere
the wolf of Rome, the lily of the banker Tommaso Marino, architecture and nave without
Florence and the red cross but remained unfinished until aisles, this is a typical Counter-
on a white ground (Milan). On 1892, when Luca Beltrami Reformation church. The façade
the vault are mosaics of Asia, completed the façade. From is being restored, but the interior
Africa, Europe and America. Via Marino on the right you has three interesting paintings.
It is now possible to access can see the richly decorated, By the first altar on the right is
the walkways on the roofs porticoed courtyard of honour. St Ignatius’s Vision by Giovan
around the Galleria and According to tradition the Battista Crespi, known as “il
experience this historical palazzo, home of the Milan Cerano” (c.1622). A Transfig­
monument from a unique and Town Hall since 1860, was uration by Bernardino Campi
fascinating perspective. The the birth place of Marianna (1565) is in the atrium after the
Highline Galleria also offers de Leyva, the famous nun second altar on the left; Campi
stunning views of the Duomo of Monza described by also painted the Blessed Virgin
spires and the Milan skyline. Alessandro Manzoni in The and Child, by the second altar
Guided walks run from morning Betrothed as the “Signora”. (left). These last two works came
from Santa Maria della Scala,
which was demolished to make
room for La Scala opera house
(see pp54–5).
The wooden furniture is also
worth a closer look: the confes-
sionals (1596) have scenes from
the life of Christ carved by
Giovanni Taurini, and the
cupboards in Richini’s sacristy
(1624–28) are by Daniele Ferrari
(1639). A statue of writer
Alessandro Manzoni, whose
death certificate is kept in San
Looking across at the Duomo from the Highline Fedele, stands in the square.

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