'Poldi Pezzoli' Museum collection of paintings, objets dart, 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 177778, 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 355372 San Marco inside works of art from the 14th15th c. and from the 16th17th c. Sant'Alessandro fine example of 17th-c. Milanese baroque Sant'Ambrogio church prototype of Lombard Romanesque; SantAmbrogio is buried there |