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Piazza Mercanti [1] ("Merchants Square") is a central city square of Milan, Italy. It is located between Piazza del Duomo , which marks the centre of the modern city of Milan, and Piazza Cordusio , and it used to be the heart of the city in the Middle Ages .
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.
[1] The museum is part of the Civic Historical Collections. Its collections include Baldassare Verazzi's Episode from the Five Days and Francesco Hayez's 1840 Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. The permanent exhibition is displayed to follow the chronological order of events of the Risorgimento, leading the visitor through fifteen ...
The Leonardo da Vinci section exhibits many Leonardo machines reproduced from Da Vinci drawings, [4] including a hydraulic saw, a spinning machine, a flying machine and Leonardo's tank. The models of the collection are the fruit of a reinterpretation by a group of experts who have translated and completed his drawings.
Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, commonly known as Olimpia Milano or as EA7 Emporio Armani Milan after its title sponsor, [2] is an LBA Italian professional basketball team, based in Milan, Italy. Its colors are white and red, and the team is sometimes referred as "Scarpette Rosse" (Little Red Shoes) because team officials imported red Converse ...