Today we shall walk through the Milan’s city center and visit three Milan’s most famous landmarks, having gone along a chain from Milan cathedral to the La Scala theatre through magnificent gallery of Vottorio Emanuele II. Milan’s city center is very compact but you won’t accomplish the “see everything in a day” as will stopped at every step especially at windows of famous fashion shops.
We began a day-trip from Duomo or Milan cathedral. The weather was fine and we postponed a visit to museums for rainy days and decided to stroll at open air. True, air was fresh and easy and the sky cloudless all days of our Italian trip that year and apparently we were lucky with weather because Milan has reputation as the Europa’s most polluted city. Duomo is the only white marble Gothic cathedral in Europe and certainly its sizes impressed me. It is second largest cathedral in Italy after Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The place itself, on which the modern cathedral was built, arouses trembling not only of Christians but also admirers of other cults. In very old times, there stood ancient Celtic sanctuary, later the Roman temple of worship the Minerva and then some replaced one other Christian churches before the modern Milan cathedral was built on this place. So, a place is very mysterious. The cathedral is topped with famous Madonnina’s spire with famous Madonnina statue (the statue of the Virgin Mary) and by tradition, no building in Milan is higher than the Madonnina.
By the way, if you haven’t enough time to visit famous mono-brand Milan’s shops, I advise to pass along the street situated aside from Duomo and visit famous Rinanscene store where you’ll find all kinds of goods of newest collections.
After survey the Duomo we go round the Duomo square and now enter to the gorgeous gallery of Vittorio Emanuele II. This passage is covered over by an arching glass and cast iron roof of crossing streets between opera house and the cathedral. The central space is topped with a glass dome and decorated with mosaics symbolizes the union of church and the state. By especially I liked ideally polished mosaic floor which can be taken a look very long. It is true carpet. I would like only to add: the south entrance to the gallery it is a triumphal arch added in 1877.
Having gone through the gallery of Vittorio Emanuele and seeing at fashion fans: they arrive to Milan center close to lunch (don’t forget that Milan is the center of fashion industry) we reached the La Scala theatre.
Our walk is finished and next time we’ll go to Genoa. We visited Genoa 5 years ago but I wanna tell about this trip. Then, we planned to visit this city specially because in 2006 there took place a grandiose flower show in Genoa.
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