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Duomo di Milano, front façade, Milan, Italy Plate celebrating the laying of the first stone in 1386. Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano [ˈdwɔːmo di miˈlaːno]; Lombard: Domm de Milan [ˈdɔm de miˈlãː]), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Italian: Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy ...
Piazza del Duomo ("Cathedral Square") is the main piazza (city square) of Milan, Italy. It is named after, and dominated by, Milan Cathedral (the Duomo ). The piazza marks the center of the city, both in a geographic sense and because of its importance from an artistic, cultural, and social point of view.
Piazza del Duomo in 2007; Palazzo dell'Arengario is on the left. The Palazzo dell'Arengario is an early- 20th century complex of two symmetrical buildings in Piazza del Duomo, the central piazza of Milan, Italy. It was completed in the 1950s and currently houses the Museo del Novecento, a museum dedicated to 20th-century art. [1]
CITY GUIDES: There’s more to this city than its reputation as a financial and fashion hub, says Alicia Miller – Milan is a city of staggering architecture, restaurants and bars to suit all tastes
Milan is traditionally referred to as the moral capital of Italy, especially due to the city's perceived work ethic. [5] Milan today is an international city, with numerous museums and cultural icons. Such include the Duomo di Milano (Milan Cathedral), the Castello Sforzesco, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and the Teatro alla Scala, to name ...
Milan Cathedral, the largest church in the Italian Republic and third largest in the world, [1] is the city's most popular tourist destination [2]. The Italian city of Milan is one of the international tourism destinations, appearing among the forty most visited cities in the world, ranking second in Italy after Rome, fifth in Europe and sixteenth in the world.
Bas-relief sculpted on the Palazzo della Ragione of the scrofa semilanuta ("half-woolly sow") from which, according to tradition, the city's toponym derives. Milan was founded with the Celtic name of Medhelanon, [2] [1] later latinized by the ancient Romans into Mediolanum.
While in adopting the Mannerist style the city's patrons and artists had as a point of reference examples of central-Italian derivation, the city's location near Protestant Switzerland made Milan one of the main centers of the flowering and elaboration of Counter-Reformation art, thanks to the widespread action of St. Charles Borromeo. [14] [15 ...