Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Milan, Italy

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 10.1 km
Ascend 134 m
Descend 135 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: Basilica di Sant'Agostino

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The Basilica Prepositurale di Sant'Agostino is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy, located at 9 Via Copernico, not far from the central station.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Sant'Agostino (Milano) (IT)

605 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Giardino Gregor Mendel

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The Gregor Mendel garden is a green area of Milan, located in the northern area of the city.

Wikipedia: Giardino Gregor Mendel (IT)

1097 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Gioachimo

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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.

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

756 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Giardini pubblici comunali di Via De Castillia

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The garden of the Catella Foundation is a green area in Milan, located in the Isola district near the Riccardo Catella Foundation. The garden, designed by Studio Land, was opened to the public in 2007 and has an area of 4,000 m².

Wikipedia: Giardino della Fondazione Catella (IT)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Vertical Forest

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The Bosco Verticale is a complex of two residential skyscrapers designed by Boeri Studio and located in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy. They have a height of 116 metres (381 ft) and 84 m (276 ft) and within the complex is an 11-storey office building.

Wikipedia: Bosco Verticale (EN)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Unicredit Tower

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The UniCredit Tower is a skyscraper in Milan, Italy. At 231 metres (758 ft), it is the tallest building in Italy. The Allianz Tower, at 209 m (686 ft), is still the tallest building in Italy if ranked by highest usable floor. The building is the headquarters of UniCredit, Italy's largest bank by assets, and is part of a larger development of new residential and business structures in Milan's Porta Nuova district, near Porta Garibaldi railway station, located at Piazza Gae Aulenti.

Wikipedia: UniCredit Tower (EN)

745 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova

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The Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua is a church in Milan, Italy, entrusted to the Order of Friars Minor. It is located in Via Carlo Farini, not far from the Monumental Cemetery and Milan Porta Garibaldi Station.

Wikipedia: Santuario di Sant'Antonio di Padova (Milano) (IT)

547 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: ADI Design Museum

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The ADI Design Museum is a museum in Milan, Italy, which houses the historical collection of the ADI Compasso d'Oro Foundation, as well as temporary exhibitions, public talks and initiatives. It is dedicated to the understanding and promotion of design in Italy and abroad.

Wikipedia: ADI Design Museum (EN), Website, Facebook

834 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 9: Porta Garibaldi

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The Porta Garibaldi, previously known as the Porta Comasina, is a city gate located in Milan, Italy, on the old road to Como. The Neoclassical arch was built to commemorate the visit of Francis I of Austria in 1825. It was reconstructed from 1826 to 1828 by Giacomo Moraglia and dedicated to Garibaldi in 1860. Built in the Doric style, the gate is flanked by two portals overlooking the street. The customs houses were added in 1836. Its less than monumental proportions are better suited to the surrounding streets as the gate used to be at the end of a winding road, hardly compatible with a grandiose project.

Wikipedia: Porta Garibaldi (Milan city gate) (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata

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Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata

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

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Incoronata, Milan (EN)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Conca dell'Incoronata

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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.

Wikipedia: Conca dell'Incoronata (IT)

1036 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 12: Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato

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The Teatro Fossati, known since 1986 as Piccolo Teatro Studio and since 2013 as Teatro Studio Melato, is a historic theater structure in Milan located between Corso Garibaldi and Via Rivoli, next to the Teatro Studio Strehler.

Wikipedia: Teatro Fossati (IT)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Piccolo Teatro Strehler

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Piccolo Teatro Strehler Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Piccolo Teatro di Milano is a theatre in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1947, it is Italy's first permanent theatre, and a national "teatro stabile", or permanent repertory company, and is considered a theatre of major national and European importance. The theatre has three venues: Teatro Grassi, in Via Rovello, between Sforza Castle and the Piazza del Duomo; Teatro Studio, which was originally intended to be the theater's rehearsal hall; and Teatro Strehler, which opened in 1998 with a seating capacity of 974. Its annual programme consists of approximately thirty performances. In addition, the venue hosts cultural events, from festivals and films, to concerts, conferences, and conventions, as well as supporting the Paolo Grassi Drama School.

Wikipedia: Piccolo Teatro (Milan) (EN), Website

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: 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

434 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Ponte delle Sirenette

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The Sirenette bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Milan, in the Sempione Park.

Wikipedia: Ponte delle Sirenette (IT)

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Monumento a Napoleone III

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The monument to Napoleon III and the French Army is a memorial by the sculptor Francesco Barzaghi (1839-1892), located in the Sempione Park in Milan. On the top there is an equestrian statue of Napoleon III, while on the underbase there are the names of French soldiers who died in the Second Italian War of Independence.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Napoleone III (IT)

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Arco della Pace

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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.

Wikipedia: Arco della Pace (IT)

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa del Corpus Domini

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The church of Corpus Domini is located in Milan, in via Canova n. 4, a short distance from the Arch of Peace. It is part of the Simplon deanery of the Archdiocese of Milan and was elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius XII at the behest of the Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini, later Pope Paul VI. The church is divided into a lower basilica, consecrated on 31 December 1900, and an upper basilica, erected later. The building is part of a vast religious complex commissioned by Father Gerardo Beccaro (1846-1912), superior of the Lombard Carmelite province: it included, in addition to the basilica, the convent of the Discalced Carmelites, the provincial library, the Holy Eucharistic League printing press and the National Hospice for the Little Derelicts, inaugurated on November 4, 1904.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Corpus Domini (Milano) (IT)

1387 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: Fontana delle Quattro Stagioni

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The Fountain of the Four Seasons is a fountain located in the center of Piazzale Giulio Cesare, in the city of Milan. It was inaugurated on 12 April 1927 on the occasion of the opening of the eighth International Trade Fair. The project was by the architect Renzo Gerla, at the time an official of the Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan.

Wikipedia: Fontana delle quattro stagioni (IT)

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