Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Milan, Italy

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 7.5 km
Ascend 100 m
Descend 107 m

Explore Milan in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MilanIndividual Sights in Milan

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Pietro Celestino

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Chiesa di San Pietro CelestinoG.dallorto / Attribution

The church of San Pietro Celestino, which once overlooked the circle of the Navigli, is a church in Milan, Italy, in Via Senato. It is now consecrated to the worship of the Egyptian Copts.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pietro Celestino (IT)

341 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Basilica di San Babila

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San Babila is a Romanesque-style Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. It was once considered the third most important in the city after the Duomo and the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio. It is dedicated to Saint Babylas of Antioch.

Wikipedia: San Babila, Milan (EN), Website

34 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Colonna di Porta Orientale

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The lion column is a stone monument located in Piazza San Babila in Milan.

Wikipedia: Colonna del Leone (IT)

644 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: Monumento a Sandro Pertini

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The monument to Sandro Pertini is a work by Aldo Rossi, a Milanese architect, inaugurated in Milan in 1990, designed in 1988 and dedicated to the seventh president of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini. The structure is located at the end of the pedestrian area of Via Croce Rossa at the intersection of two important Milanese streets, Via Monte Napoleone and Via Alessandro Manzoni.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Sandro Pertini (IT)

280 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Museo Poldi Pezzoli

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Museo Poldi PezzoliG.dallorto / Attribution

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12.

Wikipedia: Museo Poldi Pezzoli (EN), Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Casa Manzoni

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Casa Manzoni is a historical palace sited in via Morone 1 near the quadrilateral of fashion in the center of Milan, Italy. Owned by the Manzoni family, the house was the birthplace of the famous Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni in 1785.

Wikipedia: Casa Manzoni (EN), Website

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di San Fedele

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San Fedele is a Jesuit church in Milan, northern Italy. It is dedicated to St. Fidelis of Como, patron of the Catholic diocese of Como. Presently it remains a parish church, owned by the Jesuit order, though focusing on religious works.

Wikipedia: San Fedele, Milan (EN)

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Statua di Leonardo da Vinci

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The monument to Leonardo da Vinci is a commemorative sculptural group placed in Milan's Piazza della Scala and unveiled in 1872. On the top is a statue of Leonardo da Vinci while the base depicts four of his pupils as full-length figures, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Marco d'Oggiono, Cesare da Sesto, and Gian Giacomo Caprotti.

Wikipedia: Monument to Leonardo da Vinci (EN)

619 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Monumento a Francesco Hayez

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The monument to Francesco Hayez is a bronze sculpture placed in Milan in Piazzetta Brera and erected in 1890 in memory of the famous Venetian painter.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Francesco Hayez (IT)

596 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: 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

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli

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Civica raccolta delle stampe Achille Bertarelli

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

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

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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

1233 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 13: Ai caduti di Mentana

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Ai caduti di MentanaG.dallorto / Attribution

The monument to the Fallen of Mentana is a sculptural work created by Luigi Belli (1848-1919) placed in Piazza Mentana in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento ai Caduti di Mentana (IT)

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Torre di Massimiano

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The Roman walls of Milan were a walls equipped with towers who had different construction phases during the Roman era. A first phase took place in the republican era and a second after 291, in the imperial era, at the time of the augustus Maximian, when Mediolanum became the capital of the Western Roman Empire.

Wikipedia: Mura romane di Milano (IT)

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Civico museo archeologico di Milano

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The Archaeological Museum of Milan is located in the ex-convent of the Monastero Maggiore, alongside the ancient church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, with entrance on Corso Magenta.

Wikipedia: Archaeological Museum, Milan (EN), Website

613 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: 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), Website

673 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria Segreta

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The prepositural church of Santa Maria Segreta is a place of Catholic worship in Milan, home to the parish of the same name; the building is located in the municipality 1, in Via Mascheroni, in a position overlooking Piazza Tommaseo.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Segreta (IT)

886 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino

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The church of San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino is a parish church of modern construction located in Milan in Via Paolo Giovio, near Piazzale Aquileia, in the territory of the Deanery of Porta Vercellina. Completed in 1964 to a design by the architect Gio Ponti, it stands on an area previously occupied by the Fopponino di Porta Vercellina, a cemetery opened in 1576 during the great plague of San Carlo and suppressed in 1895.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino (IT)

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