Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Milan, Italy

Robert Baden-Powell Park is a park in the city of Milan dedicated to Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the world movements of scouting and guiding.

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The navigli are a system of interconnected canals in and around Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy, dating back as far as the Middle Ages.

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The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio is a Catholic place of worship in Milan. It is located along the Naviglio Grande, in Alzaia Naviglio Grande 34, in the Porta Genova district, inside Municipio 6.

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Porta Ticinese is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. The gate, facing south-west, was first created with the Spanish walls of the city, in the 16th century, but the original structure was later demolished and replaced in the early 19th century. The name "Porta Ticinese" is used both to refer to the gate proper and to the surrounding district, part of the Zone 6 administrative division. In the same district there is also a medieval gate with the same name, although in common speech the name "Porta Ticinese" is usually assumed to refer to the 19th century gate.

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The Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio is a church in Milan in northern Italy, which is in the Basilicas Park city park. It was for many years an important stop for pilgrims on their journey to Rome or to the Holy Land, because it was said to contain the tomb of the Three Magi or Three Kings.

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Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II, best known by its historic name Basilicas Park is a city park of Milan, Italy, located in Zone 1. It owes its name to the fact that it connects two major basilicas, the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio. The park has an overall area of 40.700 m2, bisected by Via Molino delle Armi, one of the avenues comprising the Cerchia dei Navigli ring road.

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The Diocesan Museum of Milan is an art museum in Milan housing a permanent collection of sacred artworks, especially from Milan and Lombardy. Originally conceived by Ildefonso Schuster in 1931 as a vehicle to protect and promote the art collection of the Archdiocese of Milan, the museum was eventually established in the former headquarters of the Dominican Order in the back of the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio with the support of Pope Paul VI. In 2001 Carlo Maria Martini inaugurated the current venue located in Porta Ticinese.

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Teatro i is a theater in Milan, Italy, Italy.

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The monument to Cesare Correnti is a sculpture by Luigi Secchi placed in Piazza Resistenza Partigiana in Milan.

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The Milan amphitheatre was a Roman amphitheatre in the ancient city of Mediolanum, the modern Milan in Northern Italy.

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The antiquarium of Milan is an antiquarium located in Milan in Via De Amicis where the remains of the foundations of the Roman amphitheater of Milan are preserved together with a museum that illustrates the history of the monument on the basis of the latest archaeological investigations conducted in the city.

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The church of Santa Maria della Vittoria is located in Milan, near the medieval Porta Ticinese, at the intersection of Via Arena and Via De Amicis.

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The Wall of Dolls o Muro delle bambole is an informal and changing art installation and memorial located, dedicated to remembering female victims of violence and murder, located on 2 Via Edmondo de Amicis just west of the Medieval Porta Ticinese in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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The Colonne di San Lorenzo or Columns of San Lorenzo is a group of ancient Roman ruins, located in front of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in central Milan, region of Lombardy, northern Italy.

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The chapel of Sant'Aquilino is a sacellum, located on the right side of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Milan, to which it is connected by a passageway. The sacellum dates back to the fifth century of which period the remains of some mosaics remain.

Wikipedia: Cappella di Sant'Aquilino (IT)

The Pope John Paul II park, formerly the "park of the Basilicas", is a park in the city of Milan. It is so named because it connects the basilica of San Lorenzo and the basilica of Sant'Eustorgio. The wide green corridor is crossed by Via Molino delle Armi, part of the Cerchia dei Navigli.

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The Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Northern Italy. Located within the city's ring of navigli, it is one of the oldest churches in the city, originally built in Roman times, but subsequently rebuilt several times over the centuries. It is close to the medieval Porta Ticinese and near the Basilicas Park, which includes both the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, as well as the Roman Colonne di San Lorenzo. The art historians H.W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson write that it is a building of "daring originality" and "gives a glimpse of the great churches built by Constantine and his successors in Byzantium, none of which stand today."

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The statue of Emperor Constantine is a bronze monument cast in 1937 on the model of the ancient original of the fourth century kept in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. The bronze is located in Milan in the churchyard of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore to which the monument has its back.

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Piazza Vetra, also referred to as Piazza della Vetra, is a square in Milan, Italy. Under the road surface of the square runs the Vetra canal, an artificial canal dating back to Roman times.

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San Paolo Converso is a former Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy, now utilized as a contemporary art space.

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Basilica di Sant'Eufemia is a church in Milan, Italy. It was established in 472.

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The basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo or San Nazaro Maggiore is a 4th-century Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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The Monastery of the Visitation in Milan is the Milanese seat of the cloistered nuns of the order of the Visitation of Santa Maria. It is located in Via Santa Sofia.

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The Basilica di San Calimero is a church in Milan, northern Italy. Its name refers to Saint Calimerius, an early bishop of the city. It dates from the 5th century but was almost completely rebuilt in 1882 by the architect Angelo Colla in an attempt to restore it to the "original" medieval structure.

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The Teatro Carcano is a theatre in Milan, Italy, located at 63 Corso di Porta Romana. Although now exclusively devoted to plays and dance, it served as an opera house for much of the 19th century and saw the premieres of several important operas. Completed in 1803, the theatre was commissioned by the Milanese aristocrat and theatre-lover Giuseppe Carcano and originally designed by Luigi Canonica. Over the succeeding two centuries it has undergone several restructurings and renovations and for a time in the mid-20th century functioned as a cinema.

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