Month: June 2011
Museo del Novecento 1
Museo del Novecento (Museum of the Twentieth Century) is located next to the Duomo inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario, and faces the Galleria. The exhibits are all from Italy created since 1900. The building looks like one of those in paintings by Giorgio de Chirico (which we saw several in the museum). This museum features Italian art
Armani / Manzoni 31
One shop that we wanted to visit is Alessi‘s flagship store, because we want to add a few more pieces to our set of cutlery (Achille Castiglioni). According to our guidebook, it is on Corso G. Matteotti. Instead, we found Spazio Fornasetti which was a pleasant surprise. Lina Cavalieri’s face remains mysterious and enigmatic even after
Dinner by Naviglio Grande
This is a continuation of the last post about the Grand Canal of Milan. We got to the canal around dinner time and the tables were quickly taken up by tourists and locals. On one side, the restaurants have tables on the outside, the other side is a street (Ripa di Porta Ticinese) which allows