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RSS FeedsMilan art tour: fresco heaven, without the crowds
(The Guardian Travel News)

 
 

20 january 2019 08:32:36

 
Milan art tour: fresco heaven, without the crowds
(The Guardian Travel News)
 


Resist the urge to splurge in the city´s chic shops and instead lose yourself in its transcendental artThink of Milan and you think of fashion. The first time I spent more than a few hours in the city, I roamed the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - Italy´s oldest shopping arcade, built in the 1860s and still home to the original Prada store, which was opened by the designer´s grandfather Mario in 1913 - wishing that I was rich (or at least, not quite so broke). What on earth is a girl with an overdraft and a fierce lust for buttery leather supposed to do in a place where everyone is so enviably well-dressed? In Milan, even the nuns look chic. In the end, I bought only one thing: an ice-cold negroni in the Camparino, the lovely, high-ceilinged bar that has been in the Galleria almost as long as Prada (Davide Campari first threw open its doors in 1915).I still love the Galleria - wander through it as you walk from La Scala to the Duomo, which it conveniently connects - and I would tell anyone to have their evening aperitif at the Camparino, where the people-watching is unparalleled. But since my most recent visit, I´m able to see Milan not only with the eyes of someone hell bent on giving their credit card a bashing, but with those of an art lover, too. If you like painting and sculpture - in particular, if you have any interest at all in Leonardo, the city´s most famous adopted son - it is just the place, and one without the crowds and queues you can expect in, say, Florence or Venice. Continue reading...


 
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