Location: Brera
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One of the world’s fashion capitals, Milan offers endless opportunities for chic shopping. Hit the artsy neighborhood of Brera for leather goods and Via Monte Napoleone for exclusive, expensive boutiques. The enchanting mosaics and glass vaults of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II make shoppers feel like they’re wandering inside a painting. Take break from your spree to gape at the iconic Duomo, then grab tickets to a performance at La Scala. Post-opera, the Navigli district pulses with late-night activity.
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1. Brera District
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2,238 reviews
An artsy, bohemian-type neighborhood hosting a number of high-quality leather shops, great for purses, shoes and clothes.
Reviewed By jccc477
Close to the city centre, lots of shops and restaurants, easy walk to everything. We liked Brera. The metro is close as well.
2. Palazzo Cusani
3. Chiesa del Carmine
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 106 reviews
The Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Milan, the "noble church of the Castle", built in 1400 to be the seat of the Carmelite Order, in the XVIII century became a territorial parish. At the end of the 1980s, it was entrusted to the Scalabrinian Missionaries to be also the seat of the Personal Parish for the English-speaking community, named San Carlo.
Reviewed By alessandrofL127YD - Milan, Italy
A long period of history and vicissitudes characterizes this church, from its costruction in 1268 to the realization of the current facade in 1880. In 1268 , the Carmelites obtained a site near the Castello Sforzesco where, starting to built a convent with annexed church, but it was destroied in a fire of 1330. After several years of abandonment for the closure of the convent, another church was built from 1400, under the design of friar Bernardo da Venezia. Works were completed in 1446. In the mid-15th century , the church became a favourite destination for aristocratic burials, as testified by the numerous noble tombs in the chapels and niches. In the 17th century , the presbytery was remade in the Baroque style. The current facade was designed by Carlo Maciachini and completed in 1880. Internal with three naves and several chapels full of statues and beatiful paintings including " Giuditta e Oleferne " (1585) painted by Camillo Procaccini.
4. Chiesa di San Giuseppe
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 50 reviews
Reviewed By alessandrofL127YD - Milan, Italy
Beautiful church of the early 600s s considered the masterpiece of Francesco Maria Richini and the prototype of the church with a longitudinal plan of northern Italy and the Central Europe. Exterior designed with strict criteria of proportion between the various volumes of the entire building, facade with a single portal flanked by niches with statues and surmounted by a nineteen-century bad-relief. The lower order of the facade is punctuated by ionic pilasters, while the upper one has an entablature and connected with two volutes and a beautiful large window with a balcony decorated with curvilinear broken frame. Internally the longitudinal plan of the church appears as two bodies with central plants, the wonderful octagonal hall and is inscribed in a square crowned by a splendid dome supported by enormous twin columns. Innumerable works of art can be admired in the niches, on the altar and on the walls, such as the painting by Procaccini depicting the death of Saint Joseph, wonderful the painting of Giovanni Stefano Danedi and Andrea Lanzani On the high altar you can admire a beautiful bad-relief and the statue of Saints Joseph
