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Cappella Ducale
The Ducal chapel still has the VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
original frescoes painted in
1472 by Stefano de Fedeli Practical Information
and Bonifacio Bembo for Piazza Castello. Map 3 B5.
Galeazzo Maria Sforza. On Tel 02-88 46 37 00.
the vault is a Resurrection Castello: Open 7am–6pm
and on the wall to the daily (to 7pm in summer).
left of the entrance is an Musei Civici: Tel 02-88 46 37 03.
Annunciation with saints Open 9am–5:30pm Tue–Sun (last
looking on. adm: 5pm). Closed 1 Jan, Easter,
Easter Mon, 1 May, 25 Dec. &
7 m = ∑ milanocastello.it
Transport
q 1 Cairoli–Cadorna, 2 Lanza–
Cadorna. v 1, 4. @ 50, 57, 61, 94.

. Sala delle Asse
This pergola, painted
to look like an open
air space, was the
work of Leonardo
(1498). The room
owes its name to
the planks (asse)
once thought to
cover the walls.

KEY
1 The holes in the castle walls,
now used by pigeons, were made
to anchor the scaffolding used for
maintenance work.
2 The Cortile della Rocchetta
was the last refuge in the event of
a siege. Its three porticoes, formerly
frescoed, were designed by Ferrini
and Bramante. The oldest wing
(1456–66), opposite the entrance to
the Corte Ducale, was the apartment
of Lodovico and his wife before he
became duke.
The Filarete Tower 3 The Torre Castellana was
collapsed in 1521 when where Lodovico il Moro kept his
the gunpowder kept there treasury. It was “guarded” by a figure
exploded. It was rebuilt of Argus, in a fresco by Bramantino
in 1905 by Luca Beltrami, at the Sala del Tesoro entrance.
who worked from drawings 4 Ducal court
from the period.

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