Recent Posts
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
Il Naviglio Grande, Milano
Milano has canals – but they are nothing like Venezia’s – more like London, Camden Lock in particular. Located in an industrial part of town, many bars and restaurants line both sides of the canal. We went by metro, got off at Porto Genova and walked over. Next to the canal, we wandered into the
