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Top 10 Things to do in Brera, Lombardy
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. Galleria Moshe Tabibnia
3. Pinacoteca di Brera
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4.5 based on 5,419 reviews
See some of the world’s most stunning, centuries-old paintings from Italian masters including Caravaggio and Raphael. The gallery’s collection is housed in a 19th century former monastery.
Reviewed By 445nikr - Varna, Bulgaria
Pinacoteca di Brera is the Milan's most famous and one of Italy's major art museums. It is housed in the beautiful building of the Palazzo di Brera along with the Botanical Garden, the Astronomical Observatory and Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts, etc. There is a vast, impressive collection on display, mostly religious art, spanning a large period of time, with masterpieces by famous painters, such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Bellini, Raffaello, Canaletto, Picasso, etc. You can take an audio-guide but there are info-plates for every drawing, both in Italian and English. As there are more than 30 rooms, you will need about 3 hours but there are benches to sit here and there. Furthermore, you can have some refreshment at the Caffe Fernanda. For those who love to draw, there are special places to "sit down and draw" with paper and pencils. The pinacoteca is closed on Mondays but it is free of charge every first Sunday of the month. If you are with kids, you can benefit from being charged as a family. Highly recommended! Enjoy it!
4. INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory
5. Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
6. RobertaebastaR Art Gallery
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Art Gallery located in Milan and London specialized in Art Deco, Modernism furniture, fine art, vintage and liberty styles.
7. Palazzo Cusani
8. Chiesa del Carmine
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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.
9. Orto Botanico di Brera
10. Chiesa di San Giuseppe
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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
