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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide helps you to get the most out of to the lakes of Northern Italy, which are all
your visit to Milan and the lakes of Northern within easy travelling distance of Milan’s city
Italy by providing detailed descriptions of centre. Information on hotels, restaurants,
sights, practical information and expert bars, cafés, shops, sports facilities and
advice. Introducing Milan, the first chapter, entertainment venues is covered in the
sets the city in its geographical and chapter Travellers’ Needs, and the Survival
historical context, and Milan at a Glance Guide section contains invaluable practical
provides a brief overview of the architecture advice on everything from personal security
and cultural background. Milan Area by to using the public transport system. The
Area describes the main sightseeing areas guide ends with a detailed Street Finder
in detail, with maps, illustrations and map and a map of the public transport
photographs. A special section is dedicated network in Milan.

Finding Your Way Around the Sightseeing Section
The city of Milan is divided into five sightseeing Northern Italy are covered in a separate chapter,
areas, each with its own colour-coded thumb tab. also colour coded. The chapter on the lakes opens
Each area has its own chapter, which opens with a with a road map of the region. The major sights
numbered list of the sights described. The lakes of are numbered for easy reference.

Introduction to the Area
MILAN AREA B Y AREA  45
HISTORIC CENTRE 1On this page the major sights are
The area around the Duomo was the religious 18th century, and a stage for the city’s major
centre of Milan in the 4th century. Up to the religious and civic ceremonies. In the 19th
14th century it was the site of the basilicas century it became the nucleus from which numbered, listed by category and
of Santa Tecla and Santa Maria Maggiore and avenues radiated. In the 1860s the decaying
the Early Christian baptisteries, San Giovanni dwellings and the shops around the Duomo
alle Fonti and Santo Stefano. These were were demolished to make way for the plotted on an area map, which also
all demolished to make room for the new construction of the then futuristic Galleria, the
cathedral. The political and administrative symbol of Milan after the unification of Italy.
centre of the city was the nearby Palazzo The damage caused by bombs in World War II shows where public transport stops,
della Ragione. At that time Milan was only created large empty areas later occupied by
slightly larger than the present-day historic many modern buildings. The Historic Centre
centre; in fact, what is today Piazza della Scala is always thronging with visitors, drawn by taxi ranks and car parks are located.
was on the edge of town. Piazza del Duomo the world-famous churches, museums and
was the focus of small businesses until the galleries and also by the excellent shops.
Sights at a Glance
Streets, Squares and Churches Restaurants p170
Historic Buildings 1 Duomo see pp48–51 1 Al Cantinone
2 Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 5 San Fedele 2 Boeucc
and Highline Galleria 9 San Gottardo in Corte 3 Camparino in Galleria
4 Palazzo Marino r San Sepolcro 4 Cracco
5 La Cupola
y San Giorgio al Palazzo
6 Casa degli Omenoni
7 Casa Manzoni and u Santa Maria presso San Satiro 6 La Rinascente Food Market
Piazza Belgioioso 7 Le Noir
8 Piazza del Liberty and Galleries 8 Savini
q Museo del Novecento
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 9 VUN
0 Palazzo Reale e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana A locator map shows
see pp58–61
w Piazza Mercanti and Palazzo
della Ragione Fotografia Theatres
where you are in
t Palazzo Borromeo 3 Teatro alla Scala see pp54–5
0 metres 400
0 yards 400 relation to the other
CORSO VENEZIA VIA S. DAMIANO areas of the city.
VIA G. VERDI
PIAZZA CECILIA VIA S.
VIA G. MORONE
See also Street Finder PIAZZA MEDA CORSO G. MATTEOTTI S. BABILA PIAZZA CORSO MONFORTE
maps 3, 4, 7 & 8 V. S. MARGHERITA D. SCALA V . SILVIO S. FEDELE PIAZZA ALL’ORTO VIA S. PIETRO S. Babila
PELLICO
CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE II Locator
VIA T. GROSSI V. U. HOEPLI VIA S. PAOLO V . BORGOGNA
V. AGNELLO
V. SAN
VIA MERCANTI
V. PELLICO
RAFFAELE
VIA S. RADEGONDA
Duomo PIAZZA C. C O R S O E U R O PA
V. C.CANTÙ VIA OREFICI PIAZZA DEL V. PATTARI V.C.BECCARIA BECCARIA
DUOMO
VIA
V. S. M.
FULCORINA
MONETA
V. ARCIVESCOVADO FONTANA PIAZZA map
V. SPADARI
VIA S. ORSOLA VIA SANTA MARTA S. SEPOLCRO PIAZZA VIA G. MAZZINI MARCONI PIAZZA VIA. G. V. D. ORE
PIAZZA VIA S. MAURILIO A. DIAZ
MENTANA V I A T O R I N O UNIONE VIA DELL’ GONZAGA VIA M. RASTRELLI V. V I A L A R G A
Missori PIAZZA G. MISSORI V. P . DA CANNOBIO V. F. BARACCHINI
VIA A. ALBRICCI
Inside the Jesuit church of San Fedele
For keys to symbols see back flap Y AREA
46  MILAN AREA B HIST ORIC CENTRE  47
Street-by-Street: Piazza In the middle of Piazza Meda is NORTHEAST
a large rotating disc, sculpted by
MILAN
del Duomo Arnaldo Pomodoro (1980).
NORTHWEST
Piazza del Duomo, designed by Giuseppe MILAN
Each area has a Mengoni and opened in 1865 after protracted 5 San Fedele San Carlo HISTORIC CENTRE SOUTHEAST MILAN
difficulties, is the ideal starting point for a visit
This church, a
to Milan’s historic centre. The area is packed with typical example of was built SOUTHWEST
colour-coded visitors fascinated by the “great machine of the architecture, is in 1838–47. Locator Map
Counter-Reformation
MILAN
popular with the old
Duomo”, as Alessandro Manzoni describes the
See Street Finder maps 3, 4, 7 & 8
thumb tab. cathedral in The Betrothed. There are numerous Casa degli Omenoni Milanese aristocracy.
spots where the Milanese like to meet for an
aperitif on Sunday morning. Young people
prefer to go to Corso Vittorio Emanuele II,
which has most of the cinemas as well
as many shops and department stores. C O R S O V I T T O R I O E M A N U E L E Piazza del
V I A M A N Z O N I PIAZZA Liberty was
MEDA
named after
the Art Nouveau
(“Liberty” in
Italian) facade
at No. 8. It was
V I A S A N P A O L O
restored after the
1943 bombing.
PIAZZA
PIA ZZ A SAN
SC AL A FEDELE
1 . Duomo
PIAZZA The third largest church in the
FONTANA world after St Peter’s and Seville
Cathedral, the Duomo towers over
the large square named after it.
3 . Teatro alla Scala
This was the first monument
in Milan to be rebuilt after the M E N G O N I V I A
1943 bombings.
Palazzo V I A A R C I V E S C O V A D O
V I A G R O S S I D U O M O
Marino
P I A Z Z A
Street-by-Street Map VIA
2This gives a bird’s-eye view MARCONI DIAZ PIAZZA
of the most interesting parts Piazza Mercanti V I A M A Z Z I N I Piazza Fontana was the target
of terrorism in 1969: a bomb in
Zucca in Galleria is a popular the Banca dell’Agricoltura killed
of each sightseeing area. The café, decorated with mosaics Palazzo Reale 16 people. In the centre of the
and decor dating from 1921.
square is a fountain designed
by Piermarini in 1783.
numbering of the sights ties 2 . Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 0 metres 0 yards 100 100 Museo del Key Suggested route
The Galleria was one of the first iron and glass
constructions in Italy.
Novecento
in with the area map on the
preceding page as well as with A suggested route for a walk
the fuller descriptions provided covers the most interesting streets
on the pages that follow. in the area.
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