Milan

MILAN'S STAGE OF HONOUR

Milan, Italy

Built at the start of the nineteenth century, the Appiani luxury apartment ...

THE DEVIL'S COLUMN

Milan, Italy

Why does the Roman column to the left of the Sant’Ambrogio Church have two ...

MR. MILAN

Milan, Italy

The Madunina (the Virgin Mary on the Duomo) is unanimously considered the q...

I NEVER FORGET A… FACE

Milan, Italy

In the early 1900s Ermenegildo Castiglioni challenged the conservatives, th...

A HALF-HOUSE, A HALF-CHURCH, A HALF-AMPHITHEATER

Milan, Italy

Via Porlezza is basically an unexplored area of Milan, but this makes its f...

THE LIFE-SIZE DOLLHOUSE

Milan, Italy

It is one of the most ancient buildings in Milan, showing no signs of aging...

OBJECTS YOU WILL PROBABLY USE

Milan, Italy

If you don’t want to bring back home an uncertain Virgin Mary with an impro...

DON’T CALL IT OSTERIA

Milan, Italy

The trani were the Milanese version of the traditional “osterie” (inns). Th...

BEFORE IT BECAME THE “FASHION CITY"...

Milan, Italy

Milan is the city of publishing: books, newspapers, prints… it was here tha...

NARROW AND DARK

Milan, Italy

Just a couple blocks away from Via Torino there is Via Bagnera, the narrowe...

A REMEDY FOR MIGRAINE

Milan, Italy

If aspirin doesn’t work, the Arca di San Pietro Martire (ark of St. Peter t...

MILANO IN A GLASS

Milan, Italy

“Milano da bere” (Milan to drink) is the famous catchphrase of an advertise...

AL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD

Milan, Italy

There is a house with a ghostly name in Milan, but it is far from dangerous...

A WALK ON THE GALLERIA

Milan, Italy

Everybody walks inside the Vittorio Emanuele II gallery to admire the luxur...

MILAN BY THE SEA

Milan, Italy

If the sea is far away, just build it downtown! This seems to be the idea b...

CHURCH MATES FOR SOUL MATES

Milan, Italy

Two identical churches and one great love. This is the hidden story behind ...

THINK VERTICAL

Milan, Italy

711 trees, 5000 large bushes, and 15000 plants amounting to a total of 94 s...

MAGGIOLINA, MUSHROOMS, AND STILT HOUSES

Milan, Italy

Where there once was the Maggiolina, an old farmstead on the banks of the S...

HOME OF THE GIANTS

Milan, Italy

Although they are giant and robust, there is no need to be afraid of the om...

FLAMINGOS IN MILAN

Milan, Italy

What are flamingos doing in the garden of a villa in downtown Milan? They c...

WHAT SOUND DOES A CIRIBICIACCOLA MAKE?

Milan, Italy

The bell tower of the Chiaravalle Abbey, the complex of buildings inhabited...

REDISCOVERING REALITY

Milan, Italy

“You don’t need to see, to look far”: this is the subtitle of the exhibitio...

SO FAR, BUT YET SO CLOSE

Milan, Italy

Just a minute away from Milan, there are the Alps, and both the Valley and ...

LA HALF-WOOLEN CITY

Milan, Italy

With its fur covering only the top part of its body, the scrofa semilanuta ...

HELLO, IS IT THE COLUMN SPEAKING?

Milan, Italy

Do not confess under the portico of the Palazzo della Ragione (the Palace o...

MARY HAD A LITTLE SISTER

Milan, Italy

The Madonnina, the statue of the Virgin Mary atop the main spire of the Mil...

HELLO?

Milan, Italy

A giant, bronze ear-shaped sculpture, placed on a building, had the purpose...

I CAN BELIEVE MY EYES

Milan, Italy

A decorated choir, a barrel vault made of three arches, a frescoed lunette,...

TO HIT DOESN’T MEAN TO SINK

Milan, Italy

Next to a balcony of the building at number 3, there is a cannonball stuck ...