| Milanese | |
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| State | Italy |
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| Region | Lombardy |
| Capital | Milan |
| Surface | 1,575.65 km² |
| Inhabitants | 3.267.053 (2019) |
| Tourism site | |
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The Milanese is an area of the Lombardy.
To know
Territories and tourist destinations
Milanese: full screen map.Urban centers
- Milan - "Moral capital", "Economic capital", "Lombard metropolis", "City of Madunìna"and so on: they are all slogans that describe theappearance of Milan, not his essence tourist, which is the city more on a human scale, more familiar, of the ancient villages of old Milan that hides its pearls in the ravines of the rampant modern city, perhaps with reluctance, perhaps with jealousy, certainly with pride. Intimate ancient churches, sumptuous palaces, silent medieval corners. And then, the astonishing explosion of the Duomo with the gilded and adored Madonnina, to reveal to everyone the greatness, the dynamism, the ingenuity that brought the most intimate and subdued ancient Milan onto the world stage.
- Abbiategrasso - Here are the Visconteo Castle and the historic center is among the most beautiful. The main square of Abbiategrasso is Piazza Marconi, where the town hall is located.
- Assago - Here you will find the Mediolanum forum and the mall Assago Milanofiori.
- Cassano d'Adda
- Legnano - City famous for the historic palio that every year commemorates the victory that the Lombard municipalities obtained on 29 May 1176 against Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire.
- Morimondo - Among the most beautiful villages in Italy.
- Peschiera Borromeo
- San Donato Milanese
How to get
By plane
In the region there is the international airport of 1 Milan-Linate, Viale Enrico Forlanini, ☎ 39 02 232323.
Other nearby airports are:
- 2 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 3 Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP), Ferno. The airport has two terminals (T1 and T2), the second is used for low cost flights. The bus service Motorway connects the airport with Milan central station in about 50 minutes, while the Malpensa Express it connects Terminal 1 with Cadorna station (red and green line underground) in 40 minutes. The buses of the Sadem is Motorway reach the city of Turin (2 hours), while the company Foxes make a few trips for Genoa (3 hours).
By car
The Milanese can be reached through many highways and roads such as:
- A1 Milan - Naples
- A4 Turin - Trieste
- A7 Milan - Genoa
- A8 Milan - Varese
- A9 Milan - noise
- A35 Milan - Brescia (BreBeMi)
- A50 West ring road
- A51 East ring road
- A52 North ring road
- SS9 Via Emilia
- SS11 Padana Superiore
- SS33 of the Simplon
- SS35 dei Giovi
- SS36 del Lake Como and Spluga
- SS412 of Val Tidone
- SP494 Vigevanese
- SS526 of East Ticino
- SS527 Bustese
On the train
The main station of the sub-region is that of Milan with frequent connections with all the major Lombard and Italian cities.
How to get around
What see
Villa Borromeo - Cassano d'Adda
Archinto Palace - Robecco sul Naviglio
Castle of San Giorgio - Legnano
- Villa Borromeo and Castello, Cassano d'Adda.
- 1 Castle of San Giorgio, Legnano. Built starting from the 13th century on a previous convent of San Giorgio to which a small church is still dedicated today. Important are the frescoes and coffered ceilings of the main building.
- Villa Gaia (Villa Borromeo Visconti Biglia Confalonieri Gandini), Robecco sul Naviglio. The building was built in the 15th century as an entertainment court for Ludovico il Moro. Later it became the summer residence of Federico Confalonieri. The building follows the layout of the castle or city palaces with a zenith axis of symmetry and buildings arranged to crown three slightly irregular courtyards. The façade towards the Naviglio, preceded by a rampart and a beautiful eighteenth-century balustrade, has pictorial decorations that recall illusory frames on the windows and doors; three wrought iron balconies frame the upper order. The main courtyard, arcaded on three sides, is adorned with frescoes from the sixteenth century. The interiors have furnishings and decorations from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.
- Archinto Palace, Robecco sul Naviglio. The construction began at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on designs by Carlo Federico Pietrasanta: it must have been a complex of four large buildings, with a central core of five floors and four hooked side wings of the same height. Of all this remains today only the terminal block of one of the four wings, with the two crenellated towers, recently restored with a grandiose work that has brought the building back to an ancient splendor. Currently the building houses the municipal library and the local Naviglio Grande Museum.
- Castle of the Borromeo counts, Peschiera Borromeo.
- Milan
- 2 Sforzesco Castle, Piazza Castello, 2. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was one of the main military citadels of Europe; almost entirely rebuilt in historicist style by Luca Beltrami between 1891 and 1905, it is now home to important cultural institutions and a tourist destination.
- 3 Milan Cathedral (Basilica of S. Maria Nascente), Piazza del Duomo.
- 4 Church of S. Maria delle Grazie and Cenacolo Vinciano, Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie, 1-2. Reservations are required to visit the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
- 5 Brera 's picture gallery, Via Brera, 28, ☎ 39 028 942 1146.
Hours: 8.30-19.30 every day except Monday. Among the major Italian museums of classical figurative arts. A collection full of classics, among which the marriage of the Virgin by Raphael and the Dead Christ by Mantegna. See the Wikipedia book Paintings of the Brera art gallery or if you prefer in epub format.
Hours: 8.30-19.30 every day except Monday. Among the major Italian museums of classical figurative arts. A collection full of classics, among which the marriage of the Virgin by Raphael and the Dead Christ by Mantegna. See the Wikipedia book Paintings of the Brera art gallery or if you prefer in Itineraries
- Gothic-Romanesque abbeys in the Milan countryside: Clairvaux, Morimondo, Mirasole, Viboldone - important evidence of Lombard medieval architecture.
