Tasting Milano _ Architecture Design and Food

Tasting Milano _ Architecture Design and Food

Chances to organize a TAILOR-MADE TOUR in Milan; architecture, aesthetics points of view enriched with anecdotes about design or urban history of the city and a "food pit-stop" somewhere like taverns, clubs or similar, always trying to offer a taste of "a pure Amarcord style" of italian design.

The options are different, the city offers many ideas and adapts to different moods; I would like to understand your expectations in time so that a suitable experience can be tailor-made. But alternatively I can take care of everything.

I am an architect, a photographer and a traveller and I have a strong passion for private courtyards, secluded streets, gardens, improvised moments of light, spaces that are more or less describable but accessible.

Milan is rich in treasures.. and if you wish you can have some shopping meanwhile!

Itinerary
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Pass By: La Triennale di Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna 6 Palazzo dell'Arte, 20121 Milan Italy

The most prestigious design museum in Italy, and the surrounding park

Stop At: Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello, 3, 20121 Milan Italy

It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was one of the largest citadels in Europe. Extensively rebuilt by Luca Beltrami in 1891–1905, it now houses several of the city's museums and art collections.

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Piccolo Teatro Strehler, Largo Antonio Greppi 1, 20121 Milan Italy

Founded in 1947, it is Italy's first permanent theatre and a national "teatro stabile", or permanent repertory company, and is considered a theatre of major national and European importance.

Stop At: Basilica di San Simpliciano, Piazza San Simpliciano 7, 20121 Milan Italy

The second oldest italian church in the form of a Latin cross, and the nearby cloisters of the subsequently establishedFacoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Brera District, Via Pontaccio, Via FatebeneFratelli, Via dei Giardini, Via Monte di Pieta, Via Ponte Vetero and Via Mercato., Milan Italy

the right address for fashion and design

Stop At: Pinacoteca di Brera, Via Brera 28 Brera, 20121 Milan Italy

visiting around

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Teatro Alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, 20121 Milan Italy

The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778; most of Italy's greatest operatic artists, and many of the finest singers from around the world, have appeared here.

Stop At: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza del Duomo, 20123 Milan Italy

Italy's oldest active shopping mall and a major landmark of the city: the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy. It was designed in 1861 and built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1867

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Duomo di Milano, Piazza del Duomo, 20122 Milan Italy

The cathedral church of the city: dedicated to the Nativity of St Mary (Santa Maria Nascente), the cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete. It is the largest church in Italy (the larger St. Peter's Basilica is in the State of Vatican City), the third largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.

Stop At: Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, Piazza Sant'Ambrogio 15, 20123 Milan Italy

One of the most ancient churches in Milan, it was built by St. Ambrose in 379–386, in an area where numerous martyrs of the Roman persecutions had been buried.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie 2, 20123 Milan Italy

the church became famous for the Cenacolo Vinciano

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: I Navigli, Alzaia Naviglio Grande, 20144 Milan Italy

touring around

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Porta Garibaldi, Piazza XXV Aprile, 20154 Milan Italy

Previously known as the Porta Comasina, is a city gate located on the old road to Como. The Neoclassical arch was built to commemorate the visit of Francis I of Austria in 1825. It was reconstructed from 1826 to 1828 by Giacomo Moraglia and dedicated to Garibaldi in 1860.

Stop At: Piazza Gae Aulenti Zona Garibaldi, 20124 Milan Italy

City Tour

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Biblioteca degli alberi, Via De Castillia, 20124 Milan Italy

Opened October 27, 2018 and created by the Dutch landscape designer Petra Blaisse and Piet Oudolf, together with the Inside-Outside Studio. It represents the third green area of the Milanese center by extension, after the Sempione Park and the Indro Montanelli Public Gardens.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Monumental Cemetery, Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale, 20154 Milan Italy

It is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments; designed by the architect Carlo Maciachini (1818–1899), it was planned to consolidate a number of small cemeteries that used to be scattered around the city into a single location.

Officially opened in 1866, it has since then been filled with a wide range of contemporary and classical Italian sculptures as well as Greek temples, elaborate obelisks, and other original works such as a scaled-down version of the Trajan's Column. Many of the tombs belong to noted industrialist dynasties, and were designed by artists such as Adolfo Wildt, Giò Ponti, Arturo Martini, Dante Parini, Lucio Fontana, Medardo Rosso, Giacomo Manzù, Floriano Bodini and Giò Pomodoro.

Duration: 40 minutes

Pass By: Via Paolo Sarpi, Zona Paolo Sarpi, 20154 Milan Italy

the oldest Chinatown in Italy

Stop At: Parco Trotter, Via Giuseppe Giacosa 46, 20127 Milan Italy

Named after the Trotter Company, as the Società Nazionale del Trotto was called in Milan, which implanted a racecourse in the area that was in operation from 1906 to 1924, when it was moved to San Siro, near the new gallop where it is still located.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the racecourse was also used as a cycling, motorcycle and automobile track. The ring of the old race track is still recognizable converted into the main avenue of the park.

Acquired the area, the Municipality of Milan built a school for children with tuberculosis, called "Casa del Sole". Even when the Tbc ceased to be a widespread social disease, the accumulated pedagogical experience allowed the establishment of a special school largely set up for outdoor activities.

Attention was shifted to "frail children" who needed heliotherapy treatments. The school was one of the few in Milan equipped with a swimming pool.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: La Collina dei Ciliegi, Via Privata Franco Sacchetti, 1-21, 20126 Milan Italy

city view from the top of a hill

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

Stop At: Parco delle Cave, Ingressi : via delle Forze Armate, via Fratelli Zoia, via Caldera, 20152 Milan Italy

in case you are looking for some greenery

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: City Life, Via Luciano Berio, 20145 Milan Italy

A residential, commercial and business district still partially under construction situated a short distance from the old city centre of the city.

The project is designed by famous architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.

Duration: 1 hour