Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Milan, Italy

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Number of sights 31 sights
Distance 6.6 km
Ascend 88 m
Descend 95 m

Experience Milan in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in MilanIndividual Sights in Milan

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Pietro in Sala

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The church of San Pietro in Sala is a Catholic place of worship in Milan, located in the western part of the city. It is the seat of the parish of the same name, included in the deanery of San Siro-Sempione-Vercellina of the Archdiocese of Milan.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pietro in Sala (IT)

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Giardini Guido Vergani

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The Guido Vergani Park and the Valentino Bompiani Garden, formerly known as Pallavicino Park, near the Pagano stop of metro line 1, were built in the sixties on land previously occupied by the western railway belt and the Sempione railway yard, abandoned in 1934.

Wikipedia: Parco Guido Vergani e Giardino Valentino Bompiani (IT)

662 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di Santa Maria Segreta

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The provost's church of Santa Maria Segreta is a Catholic place of worship in Milan, Italy. the building is located in town hall 1, in via Mascheroni, in a position overlooking Piazza Tommaseo.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Segreta (IT)

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Monumento a Francesco Baracca

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The monument to Francesco Baracca is a sculpture made by Silvio Monfrini. The work is located in Piazzale Francesco Baracca in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Francesco Baracca (IT)

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Museum of the Cenacolo of leonardo da vinci

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Museum of the Cenacolo of leonardo da vinci

The Last Supper is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John – specifically the moment after Jesus announces that one of his apostles will betray him. Its handling of space, mastery of perspective, treatment of motion and complex display of human emotion has made it one of the Western world's most recognizable paintings and among Leonardo's most celebrated works. Some commentators consider it pivotal in inaugurating the transition into what is now termed the High Renaissance.

Wikipedia: The Last Supper (Leonardo) (EN), Website

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Santa Maria delle Grazie

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Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, northern Italy, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The convent contains the mural of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, which is in the refectory.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan (EN)

934 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli

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Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli

The "Achille Bertarelli" Civic Collection of Prints is based at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Wikipedia: Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli (IT), Website

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Museo degli Strumenti Musicali

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The Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan exhibits over 700 musical instruments from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries with particular attention to Lombard instruments. The collection contains plucked instruments, Lombard and Cremonese violins, hunting horns, numerous wood instruments, bassoons, pianos and some ancient organs. In particular the Cremonese lutherie is appreciated all over the world for the high quality of its musical instruments. The museum also displays the equipment of the former Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano.

Wikipedia: Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan) (EN), Website

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Monumento a san Giovanni Nepomuceno

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The monument to St. John of Nepomucene is a sculpture by Giovanni Dugnani placed in the courtyard of the Sforza Castle in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a san Giovanni Nepomuceno (Milano) (IT)

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Museum of Ancient Art

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The Museo d'Arte Antica is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods. The various frescoed rooms of the museum house an armoury, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments, Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà and two medieval portals.

Wikipedia: Museo d'Arte Antica (EN), Website

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Museo delle Arti Decorative

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The Applied Arts Collection of Milan is located in the Sforza Castle museum complex under the management of the municipality of Milan, Italy. The museum is divided into several sections with particular emphasis on jewelry, ivories, pottery and art glass.

Wikipedia: Applied Arts Collection, Milan (EN), Website

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Museo dei Mobili e delle Sculture Lignee

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The Antique Furnishings & Wooden Sculpture Museum of Milan is located on the first floor of the Sforza Castle ducal courtyard and it is part of the Sforza Castle's Civic Museum complex.

Wikipedia: Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum (EN), Website

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Egyptian Museum

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The Museo Egizio or Egyptian Museum is a museum sited in the Sforza Castle of Milan, Italy. The Castle is one of the most famous monuments in Milan and is home to several museums including the Egyptian Section of the Milan Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Ancient Art, the Pinacoteca and the Museum of Musical Instruments.

Wikipedia: Egyptian Museum (Milan) (EN), Website

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco

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The Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco is an art gallery in the museum complex of the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia: Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco (EN), Website

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Museo d'arte e scienza

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The Museum of Art and Science in Milan, a stone's throw from the Sforza Castle, was founded in 1990 by the German physicist Gottfried Matthaes.

Wikipedia: Museo d'arte e scienza (IT), Website

329 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine

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Santa Maria del Carmine is a church in Milan, Italy. It was built in 1446.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria del Carmine, Milan (EN), Website

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Monumento a Francesco Hayez

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The Monument to Francesco Hayez is a bronze sculpture on a plinth located in piazzetta Brera (a small park just south of the main facade of the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy. The statue was commissioned in 1884, two years after the painter's death, from the sculptor Francesco Barzaghi, and inaugurated on 10 February 1890, on the seventh anniversary of his death.

Wikipedia: Monument to Francesco Hayez, Milan (EN)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Monumento a Gabrio Piola

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The monument to Gabrio Piola is a sculptural work created by Vincenzo Vela (1820-1891) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Gabrio Piola (IT)

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Sight 19: Monumento a Tommaso Grossi

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The monument to Tommaso Grossi is a sculptural work created by Vincenzo Vela (1820-1891) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Tommaso Grossi (IT)

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Sight 20: Napoleone come Marte Pacificatore

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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker is a bronze cast of the marble sculpture of the same name by Antonio Canova. It was commissioned from Canova in spring 1807 by Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier, French ambassador to Rome, commissioned it from Canova for 5,000 Louis as a gift to Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy. It was cast in 1811 and De Beauharnais sent it to Milan in May 1812, but the city found it difficult to find a site for it. It was finally moved to its present site in the main courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera (now the Pinacoteca di Brera and inaugurated there on 14 August 1859 during Napoleon III's visit.

Wikipedia: Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (Milan) (EN)

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Sight 21: monumento a Bonaventura Cavalieri

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The monument to Bonaventura Cavalieri is a sculptural work created by Giovanni Antonio Labus (1806-1857) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Bonaventura Cavalieri (IT)

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Sight 22: Monumento a Pietro Verri

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The monument to Pietro Verri is a sculptural work created by Innocenzo Fraccaroli (1805-1882) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Pietro Verri (IT)

31 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: monumento a Luigi Cagnola

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The monument to Luigi Cagnola is a sculptural work created by Benedetto Cacciatori (1794–1871) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Luigi Cagnola (IT)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 24: monumento a Carlo Ottavio Castiglioni

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The monument to Carlo Ottavio Castiglioni is a sculptural work created by Antonio Galli (1812–1861) placed in the courtyard of honor of the Brera palace in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Carlo Ottavio Castiglioni (IT)

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 25: Pinacoteca di Brera

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The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

Wikipedia: Pinacoteca di Brera (EN), Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 26: Palazzo Landriani

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Palazzo Landriani is a historic building in Milan, located in via Borgonuovo n. 25. The building is currently home to the Lombard Institute Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Landriani (Milano) (IT)

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Chiesa parrocchiale di San Marco

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San Marco is a church in Milan, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Marco, Milan (EN)

512 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Basilica di San Simpliciano

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The Basilica of San Simpliciano is an ancient Roman Catholic church in the centre of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy: the church, commissioned by the 4th century bishop St Ambrose, is the second oldest known Christian church with a Latin cross layout. It is dedicated to Saint Simplician, who was Ambrose's successor as bishop of Milan.

Wikipedia: Basilica of San Simpliciano (EN)

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 29: Luci nel bosco

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Lights in the Woods is a sculpture by Luciano Minguzzi located in Largo Paolo Grassi in Milan.

Wikipedia: Luci nel bosco (IT)

309 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 30: Acquario Civico

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Acquario Civico

The Civic Aquarium of Milan is an aquarium in Milan, Italy, and the third oldest aquarium in Europe. Built in 1906 on the occasion of the Milan International, It is the only surviving building from the event. Sited on the edge of Sempione Park, the aquarium has over 100 different types of underwater life located in several tanks with a particular attention for the fishes and aquatic vegetation of the Italian seacoasts, lakes, and rivers.

Wikipedia: Civic Aquarium of Milan (EN), Website

613 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 31: Palazzina Appiani

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Palazzina Appiani is a historical building located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built as the entrance hall of the arena at the beginning of the 19th century by the French, who occupied Milan in 1796. Its original function was to be the official gallery and guest residence to host Napoleon's family during his public appearances. It is located in Parco Sempione, the biggest park in the city, which also comprises the Sforza Castle and the Arch of Peace. Adjacent to the Arena Civica, the Palazzina is now entrusted to FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano.

Wikipedia: Palazzina Appiani (EN), Website

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