Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Milan, Italy

The monument to St. Francis of Assisi is located in Piazza Risorgimento in Milan. The monument was inaugurated in 1926 by the then cardinal of Milan, Eugenio Tosi, on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis.

Wikipedia: Monumento a san Francesco d'Assisi (IT)

Santa Maria della Passione is a late Renaissance-style church located in Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Passione (EN)

Santa Maria della Sanità also known as dei Crociferi, is a late-Baroque or Rococo style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Durini #19 in Milan, in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

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Palazzo Cusini is a historic building in Milan, located in Via Durini at number 9.

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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.

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San Carlo al Corso is a neoclassic style, Roman Catholic church located in the Piazza of San Carlo, just off Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, just west of the Piazza San Babila, in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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Scior Carera and Omm de preja are traditional, popular names used to refer to an ancient Roman sculpture located in Milan, Italy, at No. 13 of Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Before being located where it is now in the mid 20th century, the sculpture has been in different places around the city, most notably in Via San Pietro dall'Orto.

Wikipedia: Scior Carera (EN)

The monument to Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso is a bronze sculpture placed in Milan in Piazza Belgioioso and erected in 2021 in memory of the famous patriot and writer.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (IT)

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.

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Casa degli Omenoni is a historic palace of Milan, northern Italy, located in the eponymous street of Via degli Omenoni. It was designed by sculptor Leone Leoni for himself; he both lived and worked there. It owes its name to the eight atlantes decorating its facade, termed "omenoni", which were sculpted by Antonio Abondio, most probably on a design by Leoni. Lions are a recurring theme of its decorations; in particular, a large relief placed under the cornice depicts two lions tearing a satyr into pieces. The overall style of the palace and the decorations have been noted to include several references to the art of Michelangelo. The internal courtyard, modified in 1929 by Piero Portaluppi, has a colonnade with metopes and triglyphs.

Wikipedia: Casa degli Omenoni (EN)

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.

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The San Fedele Museum is an artistic and religious itinerary that develops in the sixteenth-century church of San Fedele in Milan and in the surrounding rooms. Promoted by the Jesuit fathers, it is an example of dialogue between ancient, modern and contemporary art.

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The church of San Raffaele is an ancient building that stands in the center of Milan in a side street of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, next to the Duomo.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Raffaele (Milano) (IT)

The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is a sculptural group located in the center of Piazza del Duomo in Milan. It was solemnly inaugurated on June 24, 1896.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II (Milano) (IT)

The baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti was one of the first baptisteries in the city of Milan. Dedicated to John the Baptist and built from 378 to 397 at the behest of St. Ambrose in the late imperial Roman era in the period in which the Roman city of Mediolanum was the capital of the Western Roman Empire, it was located in close proximity to the basilica vetus and the basilica maior in an intermediate position between the two where the modern Piazza del Duomo now stands. The presence of two basilicas very close together was in fact common in Northern Italy during the Constantinian age and could be found, in particular, in cities as bishoprics.

Wikipedia: Battistero di San Giovanni alle Fonti (IT)

The church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto is a Catholic place of worship in Milan, incorporated within the building of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, behind the cathedral.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Camposanto (IT)

The monument to Cesare Beccaria is a bronze sculpture placed in Piazza Cesare Beccaria in Milan.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Cesare Beccaria (1871) (IT)

San Vito in Pasquirolo is a late-Mannerist or early-Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church, located on Largo Corsia dei Servi 4, in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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San Bernardino alle Ossa is a church in Milan, northern Italy, best known for its ossuary, a small side chapel decorated with numerous human skulls and bones.

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Basilica di Santo Stefano Maggiore is a church in Milan, Italy. It was established in the 5th century. Originally dedicated to both Saint Zechariah and Saint Stephen, it was later dedicated to Saint Stephen only. Throughout its history, has undergone several reconstructions, expansion and restoration.

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San Gottardo in Corte or San Gottardo a Palazzo is a church in Milan, northern Italy.

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The monument to the Carabiniere is a sculpture by Luciano Minguzzi located in Piazza Diaz in Milan.

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Santa Maria presso San Satiro is a church in Milan. The Italian Renaissance structure (1476–1482) houses the early medieval shrine to Satyrus, brother of Saint Ambrose. The church is known for its false apse, an early example of trompe-l'œil, attributed to Donato Bramante.

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Giuseppe Missori was an Italian patriot, military leader during the Italian unification, and politician. He served under Garibaldi during the Second Italian War of Independence, the Expedition of the Thousand, and the Third Italian War of Independence. After the unification of Italy, he was twice a member of the City Council of Milan.

Wikipedia: Equestrian Monument to Giuseppe Missori, Milan (EN)

San Giovanni in Conca is a crypt of a former basilica church in Milan, northern Italy. It is now located in the centre of Piazza Missori.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni in Conca (Crypt), Milan (EN)

Sant'Alessandro in Zebedia is a parish church in Milan, Italy. It is a distinctive example of the early Lombard Baroque.

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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.

Wikipedia: Parco delle Basiliche (EN)

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 Medieval Porta Ticinese is a gate of the former 12th-century Walls of Milan; it is located at the intersection of the Corso di Porta Ticinese and Via Edmondo de Amicis and Via Molino di Armi in the city center of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. This is one of the three remaining medieval gates of Milan. The others are Porta Nuova and the Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio.

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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.

Wikipedia: Parco delle Basiliche (IT)

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 Francesco Messina civic museum-studio is located inside the deconsecrated church of San Sisto al Carrobbio, in via San Sisto 4/A, in the heart of the ancient Roman area of Milan.

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San Giorgio al Palazzo is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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Chiesa di San Sepolcro is a church in Milan, Italy. It was originally built in 1030, but has undergone multiple revisions. The church is located at Piazza San Sepolcro in the historic center of Milan.

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The Roman forum of Milan was the forum, or the main square, of the Roman city of Mediolanum. Built in the first half of the first century by Augustus, it extended for about 160 meters in length and 55 in width. It was located exactly at the intersection of the decumanus and the cardo maximus. As in the forums of other Roman cities, the Roman forum of Milan also featured important public buildings such as the Capitolium, the basilica, the curia, the macellum and the tabernae. Near it there was the Mint of Mediolanum.

Wikipedia: Foro romano di Milano (IT)

Santa Maria Podone is a small Greek Orthodox church in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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The Roman Circus of Milan was an ancient circus in the Roman city of Mediolanum, present-day Milan. The building, which measured 470 meters in length and 85 in width, was the largest Roman circus built during the era of Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Few Roman cities could boast of owning a circus, as it was a symbol of great economic power, given the cost of maintaining such a large structure and horses, and military. In Northern Italy, in addition to Milan, only Aquileia had a circus. The Roman circus of Milan was mainly used for sports competitions on horseback, led by both chariots and chariots, and exceptionally for gladiator fights.

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The Tempio della Vittoria or Temple of the Victory, also called the Shrine of the Fallen (Soldiers) of Milan is a monumental chapel building located on largo Agostino Gemelli, just north of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio and southwest of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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San Bernardino alle Monache is a Renaissance style church on Via Lanzone 13 in central Milan, Italy. This was originally a chapel within the nunnery of St Bernard. The monastery no longer exists. It was built around 1447 to designs by Pietro Antonio Solari. The interior contains frescoes from the 15th century and before. Some are attributed to Vincenzo Foppa. The church was restored in the last century.

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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 basilica of San Vincenzo in Prato is a Roman Catholic church located in Via Daniele Crespi 6, in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church maintains most of its original Palaeo-Christian appearance.

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Don Giussani Park is one of the city parks in Milan.

Wikipedia: Parco Don Giussani (IT)

Santa Maria del Rosario is a twentieth-century parish church located in Piazza del Rosario in Milan, along Via Andrea Solari, in the territory of the deanery of San Siro-Sempione-Vercellina.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario (Milano) (IT)

The Vincenzo Muccioli garden, formerly the Stendhal garden, is a green area in Milan, located in the south-western part of the city. Opened to the public in the seventies of the twentieth century and later dedicated to the entrepreneur Vincenzo Muccioli, it has an area of 9,000 m².

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The Bazzega and Padovani garden, formerly the garden of Via Stendhal, is a green area of Milan, located in the south-western part of the city.

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