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Milan today

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:21:12 -0700

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Milan - Duomo di Milano

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:05:49 -0800

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Milan - Duomo Santa Maria Nascente

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:07:00 -0700

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Milaan - Duomo Santa Maria Nascente

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:36:54 -0700

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Milan - Castello Sforza living statue

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:58:32 -0700

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Milan - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:42:32 -0700

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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a covered double arcade formed of two glass-vaulted arcades at right angles intersecting in an octagon, prominently sited on the northern side of the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, and connects to the Piazza della Scala. Named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of united Italy, it was originally designed in 1861 and built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.

The street is covered over by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for nineteenth-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade, London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels (opened 1847), the Passazh in St Petersburg (opened 1848), the Galleria Umberto I in Naples (opened 1890) and the Budapest Galleria.

The central octagonal space is topped with a glass dome. The Milanese Galleria was larger in scale than its predecessors and was an important step in the evolution of the modern glazed and enclosed shopping mall, of which it was the direct progenitor. It has inspired the use of the term galleria for many other shopping arcades and malls. The use of the iron structure has inspired also the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Below the dome is the centre mosaic shield[Cite] of the mall, and to the west of the design is a tradition that suggests that you have a spin with your right heel on the mosaic bulls “attributes”, one of the 102 glass designs that make up the pavement of the Galleria’s splendid central octagon. Once a gesture to ward off evil, it has become part of the Milanese tradition and has such a following that a deep hole has formed in the pavement.

The Galleria connects two of Milan's most famous landmarks: The Duomo and the Teatro Alla Scala, but the Galleria is a landmark on its own right.

Milan - Santa Maria delle Grazie

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:29:41 -0700

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In this wonderful church i had the luck to see 'Leonardo's fresco The Last Supper'. One need a reservation we didn't had, because two people cancelled we were allowed to slip in.

Milan - Castello Sforza statue

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:47:27 -0700

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Milan - Certosa railway station

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:43:14 -0700

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Milan - Living statue [Sep 6, 2011 #269 Explored]

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:30:55 -0700

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Milan - Door in the Corso Buenos Aires

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:28:31 -0700

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Milan - Castello Sforzesca crusifiction

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:26:50 -0700

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Milan - Living Statue (daguerre style)

nobody@flickr.com (JanvanSchijndel) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:57 -0700

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Guli Werka thank you for posing.

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