Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Milan, Italy

The church of Santa Croce is a Catholic place of worship of the Ambrosian rite in Milan located in Via Sidoli, in the Acquabella area, not far from Piazzale Susa and Piazzale Novelli. Built to a design by the Piedmontese architect Cecilio Arpesani (1853-1924) between 1913 and 1917, it was erected into a parish on 9 February 1920.

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The Fontana a Pinocchio is a fountain and sculptural monument located in a traffic island in Corso Indipendenza, a central avenue of Milan, Italy. It is decorated with a complex of bronze statues based on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, designed by Italian sculptor Attilio Fagioli (1877–1966) and realized by the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia foundry.

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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.

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The church of Santa Maria del Suffragio is a Catholic place of worship in Milan, Italy, located in Corso XXII Marzo.

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The Monument to the Five Days of Milan is a monument comprising a bronze obelisk and sculptures on a plinth located in the center of Piazza Cinque Giornate in Milan, Italy. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Giuseppe Grandi and inaugurated in 1895 to commemorate the Five Days of Milan, a rebellion of 18–22 March 1848 which caused the Austrian army to withdraw from Milan. In this site, once rose the Porta Vittoria, the eastern gate in the Medieval Spanish Walls of Milan, whose capture by the rebellion prompted the Austrians to abandon the city.

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San Pietro in Gessate is a church in Milan, northern Italy. Built in the 15th century, it is a noteworthy example of Gothic architecture.

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The central synagogue of Milan, built in 1892, rebuilt in 1947 and again renovated in 1997, is the main place of worship of the Jewish community of Milan. Since 1993 it has taken the name of Hechal David u-Mordechai Central Temple. It is located in via Guastalla 19.

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San Barnaba is a church in Milan, Italy. It is the first edifice of the Barnabites order.

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The Guastalla Gardens are a park in Milan. Overlooking Via Francesco Sforza, in front of the State University of Milan and next to the Maggiore Hospital, they are among the least extensive, but also some of the oldest public gardens in Milan.

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The monument to Margherita Hack is a bronze sculpture placed in Milan in Largo Richini and erected in 2022 in memory of the famous astrophysicist and academic.

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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 Teatro Lirico is a theatre in Milan, Italy. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it hosted numerous opera performances, including the world premieres of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Giordano's Fedora. The theatre, located on Via Rastrelli, closed in 1998. However, a restoration project was begun in April 2007, and it has finally re-opened in December 2021 as the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber. Stage Entertainment carried on the renovation of the Theatre, completing all finishes and all workings started by the administration "Comune di Milano".

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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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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.

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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)

Palazzo Trivulzio is a historic building located in the center of Milan, in Piazza Sant'Alessandro n. 6.

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The Roman walls of Milan were a wall with towers that had different phases of construction 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 Augustus Maximian, when Mediolanum became the capital of the Western Roman Empire.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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The Madonnina is a statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan Cathedral in Italy.

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The Museo del Novecento is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.

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The Grande Museo del Duomo di Milano, owned by the Veneranda Fabbrica, is housed inside the Palazzo Reale di Milano, in Piazza del Duomo.

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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 Piermarini fountain is a neoclassical fountain, the work of the architect Giuseppe Piermarini, located in Milan at the square of the same name. Inaugurated on August 15, 1782, it is considered the first fountain built in the Milanese city.

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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.

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

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

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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Tempio Valdese is a Protestant church in Milan, Italy. It was built in 1950.

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The Verziere Column is a baroque-manneristic monumental column dedicated to "Jesus Christ the Redeemer", in Milan, Italy. The column is located in Largo Augusto and it is named after the "Verziere", the traditional greengrocery street market of Milan that, until 1783, was located in the surrounding district. The construction of the column began in 1580, but it was only completed in 1673.

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The monument to the Bersaglieri is a monument located in Largo Bersaglieri in Milan.

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

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

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Villa Necchi Campiglio is a historic residence located at via Mozart, 14, Milan. It was built between 1932 and 1935 as an independent single-family house designed by Piero Portaluppi, an important Milanese Rationalist architect, and is surrounded by a large private garden with a tennis court and swimming pool. This was the second swimming pool ever to be built in Milan after the municipal one, and the first to be built on private land.

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