Churches, Milan

Favorite thing: So what do you do when you have covered the major attractions in Milan? Well, if you like churches and architecture you can just start walking around. We stopped by Santa Maria della Grazie after we had seen the Last Supper. But once again we came to a church that was partly covered up (inside and outside) due to maintenance. We stopped by San Lorenzo alle Colonne which contains the largest dome in Milan.. But to be honest all the churches that we went to after the Duomo can’t really “compete” against its splendour. If you’re visiting during warmer months, be sure to wear longish legged and armed clothes when visitng churches, otherwise you won’t be let in.

Favorite thing: We stopped by the Museo Nazionale della scienza e della tecnica (science and technology museum). It is located in the sant Ambrogio district and when we got there it was more or less empty. We wanted to go there because there was supposed to be a special Leonard da Vinci exhibition. So we paid the 6.20 Euro to get in and we walked around for a couple of hours. The drawback once again, is that a lot of the information in the museum is only in Italian and hence it is not easy for the ones that don?t know the language. But it is a large museum and it houses models of boats, engines, power production, photography, watches, mining, radio and so on. The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition was OK but we didn?t see any of the hands on exhibits that we had read about. But quite a lot of wooden models had been built to display some of Leonardo?s ideas.

The museum itself is actually located inside an old monastery and surprise, surprise ? it too was undergoing a face lift. It turned out that this would become a repeating "problem" during our trip.

Fondest memory: You can read more about the museum on http://www.museoscienza.org/

Favorite thing: The church of sant'ambrogio is one of the best in town. brick made in the XXIII century has a gold altar.
worth to visit

Fondest memory: this picture was taken by a friend from Germany that came to visit the town with me.

Favorite thing: Saint Ambrose is the patron saint of Milan. I saw this statue of Saint Ambrose walking from Castello Sforzesco to the Duomo.

Favorite thing: Piazza Santo Stefano
behind the university

Favorite thing: The ancient basilic of S.Ambrogio

Fondest memory: '..quello vecchio , là, fuori di mano....'