Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Milan, Italy

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.

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The Chiesa di San Nicolao is a church in Milan, Italy. It was originally built in 1259.

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The church of Santa Maria della Consolazione al Castello is a small church located in Largo Cairoli in Milan, at the end of the Via San Giovanni sul Muro and opposite the Teatro dal Verme. It is a subsidiary church of the parish of Santa Maria alla Porta of the Archdiocese of Milan and chaplain of the community of the Filipino faithful of Milan.

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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.

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The Arco della Pace is a triumphal arch in Milan located at the beginning of Corso Sempione. The first stone was laid in 1807 when Milan was the capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy; the works were then suspended with the fall of Bonaparte (1814) and resumed in 1826 under the Austrians who dedicated the arch to the peace between European nations achieved in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna; it was finally inaugurated on 10 September 1838 with a sumptuous ceremony presided over by the newly crowned Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. It had its definitive consecration in 1859 with the entry into Milan of Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II after the victory of Magenta. The Arch of Peace is one of the major neoclassical monuments in Milan.

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

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San Marco is a church in Milan, northern Italy.

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the White Horse of Peace is a sculptural group by Harry-Pierre Rosenthal placed in the Indro Montanelli Public Gardens in Milan.

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The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli.

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The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano is a museum in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1838 when naturalist Giuseppe de Cristoforis donated his collections to the city. Its first director was Giorgio Jan.

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The monument to Antonio Stoppani is a bronze sculpture placed in the public gardens of Milan.

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Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli, formerly known as Giardini Pubblici and Giardini di Porta Venezia are a major and historic city park in Milan, Italy, located in the Porta Venezia district, north-east of the city center, in the Zone 1 administrative division. Established in 1784, they are the oldest city park in Milan. After their establishment, the Gardens have been repeatedly enlarged (to the current overall area of 172,000 square metres and enriched with notable buildings, most notably the Natural History Museum and the Planetarium.

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The monument to Giuseppe Balzaretto, architect who in 1862 rearranged the Gardens of Via Palestro in Milan, is a sculptural group in stone and bronze placed on the rocaille of Monte Merlo in the same gardens.

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The monument to the Martyrs of Spielberg or Italia turrita is a sculptural group placed in the public gardens of Milan.

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San Bartolomeo is a 19th-century, Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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The Fountain of San Francesco di Castiglioni or Castiglioni Fountain it is one of the most famous fountains in Milan and one of the most famous fountains created by the artist Giannino Castiglioni.

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Santa Maria Incoronata is a church in Milan, Italy, completed in 1460.

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The conconent, or concise gabelle basin is an ancient navigation basin located in Milan which was used to easily overcome the difference in height between the Naviglio della Martesana and the circle of the Navigli.

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The church of San Gioachimo is located in Municipio 2 of Milan, on the square of the same name. It was commissioned in 1880 by Monsignor Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, archbishop of Milan from 1867 until his death in 1893, and senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1848 until his death. It is dedicated to St. Joachim, traditionally referred to as the husband of St. Anne, from whom Mary, mother of Jesus, is said to have been born.

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