Destination: Milan 🇮🇹⚽👠🕍🍷
The Why:
Fashion, Football, Food and further afield…
The world famous home of Milan Fashion Week with its stylish catwalk shows and its shopping…Yeah, I don’t much about all that but its there – Let me tell you about two Cathedrals.
Magnificent barely covers it. Stain glasses windows, Ornate statues and altars. Don’t miss an impressive roof terrace with great views.
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, San Siro, Milan
Magnificent barely covers it. Any stadium that plays home to AC Milan and Interazonale hosts passionate fans, many of the worlds best footballers on the planet and important exciting matches in Serie A and The camions League. The San Siro is not any old stadium. Having been built upwards on three different occasions the brutalist mass of concrete, twisting walkways and giant Iron roof structure give it a look like nothing else. Get in while you can, the sands of time and modern commercial requirements mean the ground has been slated for replacement but it seems inconceivable that it’s replacement could provide the same level of heritage and drama. Football fans of any age will have heroes here be they among Greaves, Maldini and Baresi, Van Basten, Riijkard and Gullit, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka or a long list of others.
It hosts tours and has a separate museum across town at Casa Milan.
Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci Museum – Well worth a visit
The Last Supper by Leonardo – If you’d like to see this giant artwork book in advance, it is usually sold out.
Around the City
A very easy to use Metro and streets lined with Beautiful buildings and nice restaurants make Milan an easy choice despite it’s reputation of being harsher and more industrial than many Italian locations. There is no shortage of fine hotels at all budgets.
Further afield
The Lakes – Como (Home to George Clooney) – is the nearest of the Great Italian Lakes to Milan, Garda and others are definitely also worth a visit. All Moody in winter, Busy in Summer full of boat trips and with many quaint towns dotted around the shores with their hotels, shops and eateries
The Mountains – The Winter Olympics mostly in Cortina highlighted the best of the Italian Alps and further up still are Switzerland’s finest, The train or coach visits will take you round and through some dramatic landscapes. Look up Bernina for the trains and some spectacular views.
BTS Video Guide (Above) – Our first mini destination guide – Getting used to the accounts and the involved, semi-succssful experiment with Google AI text to Vice. Photos and videos not taken with a guide in mind so lots of ideas for the next one. Edited with Da Vinci Resolve. Like, Subscribe and Comment.