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8 Fieramilanocity
Largo Domodossola 1. Map 1 C2.
Tel 02-499 71. Fax: 02-49 97 76 05.
q 1–5 Lotto FieraMilanoCity, 5
Portello. v 27. @ 37, 48, 68, 78.
Shuttle from Linate airport. ATM
circle line buses (free). Open for
exhibitions only. & 7 0 -
∑ fieramilano.it
San Siro Stadium, now named after footballer Giuseppe Meazza
The fiera Campionaria, or
Trade Fair, was founded in 9 Meazza the monks’ houses, each
1920 to stimulate the (San Siro) Stadium with a kitchen garden, around
domestic market in postwar the sides. The rules imposed
Italy. It was originally located Piazzale A. Moratti. Map 1 A2. Tel by the semi-closed order
near Porta Venezia and in 02-48 79 82 01. q 5 San Siro Stadio. required each monk to live
v 16. @ 49. San Siro Museum:
1923 was moved to the Entrance gate 14. Open 9:30am–6pm independently. The complex
ground behind the Castello daily. & = ∑ sansiro.net was rebuilt in late Renaissance
Sforzesco. It was fitted out style in 1562; the façade,
with permanent pavilions Named after Giuseppe Meazza, completed in 1608, was
and buildings, many of which the famous footballer who decorated with obelisks and
were damaged or destroyed played for the local teams, statues, crowned by a statue
in World War II. Some original Inter and AC Milan, Italy’s of Our Lady. A porticoed
Art Nouveau buildings have top stadium is commonly atrium with an exedra-
survived at the entrance in known as San Siro, after the shaped vestibule provides
Via Domodossola and the surrounding district. It was a harmonious introduction
Palazzo dello Sport (sports built in 1926, rebuilt in the to the complex.
arena). The old main entrance 1950s with a capacity of Vincenzo Seregni designed
to the Fiera is in Piazza Giulio 85,000, and then renovated the interior in the 1500s. The
Cesare, which is dominated in 1990, when another ring aisleless nave is crowned by
by a Four Seasons fountain, of tiers and a roof were a barrel vault flanked by blind
placed there in 1927. added (see pp200–201). arcades. The church is famous
One of the leading exhibi tion The stadium and changing for the frescoes by Daniele
centres in Europe, the Fiera di rooms can be visited on the Crespi, a leading 17th-century
Milano has become a symbol museum tour. Lombard artist. He reputedly
of Milanese industri ousness. painted the entire cycle (The
It hosts 78 specialist Legend of the Foundation of the
international shows attracting 0 Certosa di Order) to thank the Carthusian
2.5 million visitors every year. Garegnano monks for offering refuge after
Rho, a town located just he had been charged with
outside Milan, now holds Via Garegnano 28. Tel 02-38 00 63 01. murder. The cycle begins by the
most trade fairs at an v 14. @ 40. Open 9:30am–noon, first arch on the right, continues
3:30–5:30pm daily (closed Thu am).
innovative centre known 5 7:30am & 6pm Mon–Fri pre-hols; on the wall behind the façade,
as Fieramilano. 8:30, 10 & 11:30am & 6pm. designed by Simone Peterzano,
and is resumed on the vault,
The church that where there are four medallions.
forms the heart In the first bay on the left Crespi
of this important included a self-portrait of
Carthusian himself as a servant blowing a
monastery, horn and added the date (1629)
dedicated to and his signature in a scroll.
Our Lady of the Simone Peterzano painted
Assumption, was the frescoes in the presbytery
founded in 1349 and apse (1578), with scenes
by Archbishop from the life of Mary. The
Giovanni Visconti. chapel on the right has two
Sadly, the Certosa macabre 17th-century paintings
is well-known informing novices of the various
because the main forms of torture they might
cloister was ruined encounter while spreading
by the construction Christianity. On leaving, look
of the A4 motorway. at the 14th-century cloister
The courtyard is of on the right, the only surviving
Façade of the Certosa di Garegnano (1608) impressive size, with part of the original monastery.

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