More than six centuries have passed since the first stone of Milan’s Cathedral was laid in 1386, yet its construction cannot be considered completed. That explains why the Milanese love to say “it’s taking as long as the building of the Duomo!” when referring to all those jobs that never seem to come to completion. […]
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May 2022 To avoid any admission controversies at museums and art galleries it is advisable to carry your Green Pass, your ID and a FFP2 face mask. Calendar Duomo / Cathedral Piazza Duomo 12 • M1/3 Duomo 1) Cathedral and Archaeological Area Open: 09.00 -18.00. Tickets sold up to 17.00 every day; last […]
Hard marble and delicatessen as lucrative cultural food
No doubt many of us, on reading this, will remember having read this story before! I saw Catherine and knocked on the window … We walked along together, along the sidewalk past the wine shops, then across the market square and up the street and through the archway to the cathedral square. There were street […]
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Street Fights in Milan
On March 22nd we celebrate the anniversary of the Cinque Giornate di Milano (The Five Days of Milan), the pitch battle fought in 1848 throughout the streets of the city between Italian residents and the occupying Austrian troops. The trouble had been brewing for years. Nationalists were agitating for Italian unification, Catholics vied for Popish […]
When history leaves its sign
“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of the plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.” – Albert Camus, The Plague. For centuries, the so called “Black Death” swept across the world, devastating towns and cities leaving millions dead in its wake. However, just like the characters in […]
Milan on the run
In some Italian cities, time appears to stand still; their whole demeanour is one of relaxed, serene tranquillity. One calls to mind cities like Florence or Verona, where locals glide calmly through the streets whilst daily life appears to pass by at a snail’s pace. Milan on the other hand, is in a permanent state […]
Discovering a hidden treasure
If you’re ever in Milan and find yourself short of cash, you might try to get something “a ufo”. Nothing to do with objects of the unidentified flying kind, this old Milanese expression means to get something for free, inspired by the AUF stamps seen on board many boats which floated down the navigli a […]
The Nivola and the Holy Nail
On 13th of September just as on every 13th September for the last four hundred years, an ancient ceremony was reenacted inside the Duomo. The tradition began in 1576 during an epidemic of the bubonic plague when Archbishop Carlo Borromeo organized a procession from the Duomo cathedral to the church of San Celso to pray […]