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English: Map of the province of Milan, Italy. Date: 6 December 2010: Source: Own work: Author: Vonvikken . This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape.
The Maximian tower in the courtyard of the Archaeological Museum of Milan. In the Imperial era, while Mediolanum was capital of the Western Roman Empire, Emperor Maximian enlarged the city walls; to the east, this was intended to include the Hercules' thermae (located in the surroundings of what are now Piazza San Babila, Corso Europa and Piazza Fontana); to the west, the new walls enclosed ...
The Civico Mausoleo Palanti designed by the architect Mario Palanti is a tomb built for meritorious "Milanesi", or citizens of Milan. The memorial of about 800 Milanese killed in Nazi concentration camps is located in the center and is the work of the group BBPR , formed by leading exponents of Italian rationalist architecture that included ...
Via Dante today is a pedestrian street in central Milan, Italy, connecting Piazzale Cordusio (near the town center and the Cordusio metro station) with Largo Cairoli (to the northwest and housing the Cairoli metro station). The Cairoli station is near to the Filarete tower and the entrance to the Castello Sforzesco.
Milan (/ m ɪ ˈ l æ n / mil-AN, US also / m ɪ ˈ l ɑː n / mil-AHN, [5] [6] Milanese: ⓘ; Italian: Milano ⓘ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban population [7] and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
The garden's grounds contain many labeled plants, lawns, a lake, and about 1 km of walking paths. Monte Stella ("Starmount"), also informally called Montagnetta di San Siro ("Little mountain of San Siro") is an artificial hill and surrounding city park in Milan. The park, established in the 1950s, has an overall area of 370,000 m².
Mediolanum superimposed on modern Milan. The lighter rectangle in the centre, slightly to the right, represents the modern Cathedral Square, while the modern Castle Sforzesco is located at the top left, just outside the route of the Roman walls Wooden model preserved at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan showing a reconstruction of the imperial Mediolanum A section of Roman wall (11 m ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Milan: . Milan – capital of Lombardy and the second most populous city in Italy after Rome.Milan is considered a leading Alpha Global City, [1] with strengths in the arts, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, services, research, and tourism.