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History and 'Things to see'in Milan:

• 'Poldi Pezzoli' Museum 
collection of paintings, objets d’art, ceramics, jewellery, carpets

• Arco della Pace 
neoclassical building (1807)

• Biblioteca Ambrosiana 
35,000 manuscripts and 700,000 printed works are preserved here; the collection includes the f Codex Atlanticus by Leonardo

• Brera Gallery 
stores the best of works by the Lombard and Venetian schools from the 15th c. to the 18th c.

• Castello Sforzesco 
Museum inside (Musei del Castello): Civic Collections of Ancient Art (statuary, furniture and weapons), Pinacoteca art gallery (paintings), Civic Collections of Applied Art (ceramics, clothes and musical instruments), Civic Archaeological Collections (prehistoric and protohistoric finds)

• Cenacolo Vinciano 
fresco The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (1495-97).

• Cimac 
paintings by major 20th-c. Italian artists

• Duomo 
Milan icon, whose foundation stone was laid by Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1386 but which was completed in 1812; due the long construction is the coexistence of Gothic and Renaissance; however Duomo is considered one of the finest Gothic churches in Italy

• Galleria d'Arte Moderna 
works mainly by 18th- and 19th-c. Italian artists

• Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 
great porticoes for a covered passageway; it is a place to walk and for meeting in cafιs

• La Scala 
built in 1777–78, fine example of the neo-classical, is the temple of opera in Milan

• Museo del Duomo 
on the ground floor of the palazzo Reale, on the right of the cathedral

• Museo teatrale alla Scala 
Collection of objects and works of art relating to the history of the Scala

• Museum of Science and Technology 
collection of items rapresenting the evolution of scientific thought and to experience at first hand the progress of technology (including an exhibition of drawings, designs and prototypes by Leonardo da Vinci)

• Palazzo di Brera 
inside the picture gallery of the same name

• Parco Sempione 
one of most important Milan's green spaces

• Pinacoteca Ambrosiana 
collection of paintings

• Royal Palazzo 
Visconti family residence to the right of the Duomo

• San Lorenzo Maggiore 
erected as a temple to Ares in 355–372

• San Marco 
inside works of art from the 14th–15th c. and from the 16th–17th c.

• Sant'Alessandro 
fine example of 17th-c. Milanese baroque

• Sant'Ambrogio 
church prototype of Lombard Romanesque; Sant’Ambrogio is buried there

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