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6 Santo Stefano Maggiore and NORTHEAST
San Bernardino alle Ossa MILAN
The San Bernardino ossuary chapel,
rebuilt in the 17th century, is entirely HISTORIC
CENTRE
covered with human bones and SOUTHEAST
skulls from the cemeteries that MILAN
were abolished in the 1600s.
SOUTHWEST
MILAN
Colonna del
Verziere Locator Map
See Street Finder maps 7 & 8
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z 8 Palazzo Sormani
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O Andreani
O v i A L A G h e t t O f The Biblioteca Civica di
i S
n Milano, housed here, is
O O the largest library in
t S C Milan. It includes the
n e
A C private library of the
´ n French novelist Stendhal.
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n v i A f e S tA d e L P e r d O n O r
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A 7 Largo Augusto
A i
i v The Colonna del Verziere
v here commemorates the
end of the 1576 plague.
L A r G O
r i C h i n i 5 Giardino della Guastalla
Milan’s oldest public garden was laid out
in 1555. There are several monuments,
including a small Neo-Classical temple
designed by Luigi Cagnola.
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SAn
nAzArO
4 . Ca’ Granda
This was the old city hospital,
also known as Ospedale
Maggiore. It was built in 1456
to bring all the small hospitals
of the city together on a
single site. It was in use until
Key 0 metres 100
1939. Today it is home to
Suggested route 0 yards 100 Milan’s state university.

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