Sunday, August 17, 2008

Milan - Aug 17th

Well the only way to see the ‘Last Supper’ was to take an expensive tour but since we only had one day to see Milan, we did it. We got down to the Piazza di Duomo and hung out there for about 45 minutes until the bus came. Turns out that the first part of the tours was a walking tour then a quick drive around the historical district and then we go to the Last Supper.The Duomo is immense being the 2nd largest cathedral in the world. Very overwhelming. The amount of marble is mind boggling.

We then took a walk through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II which was pretty cool. All of the fashion shops were there along with some cool mosaic floors. Everyone liked the story about turning 3 times on the bull.









Lisa and I like La Scala's Museum tour. They usually take you into the opera house itself but is closed for renovations this month. They have a very cool Homage to Maria Callas with about a dozen of her costumers, gowns, etc that she wore during the 13 years of performance there.
On the bus ride they showed us the cemetery, the castle (see below), and the needle and thread (see below)






The Last Supper was actually very cool. You have to go through 'people traps' in an attempt to keep dust down and the temperature constant. It was worth seeing it in person. If you go, I recommend doing what Lisa's friends did and order them online ahead of time for 8Euro.

We left and headed on foot to the Sforza Castle but first past this needle and thread sculpture representing the subway system.

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