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Best Milan Hidden Gem Attractions

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  • Hermes_NL 🇳🇱
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands21,814 contributions
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    The very high rating of this church is well deserved. Incredible beautifully decorated. Note you can only walk one direction so make sure you see everything along the way.
    Written December 29, 2024
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  • Cindy T
    Pinellas Park, FL243 contributions
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    This place is amazing and HUGE! It is a bit north of town, but I walked to it because the city is so beautiful. The cemetary is like an art museum. No simple headstones here-everything is a piece of art, and everyone seems to want to outdo the next person. I walked around for hours, but you always see the main building so you do not get lost. Take your time and just admire the creativity.
    Written January 21, 2025
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  • Brun066
    Florence, Italy13,976 contributions
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    The first striking side of Villa Necchi Campiglio is its secluded and almost rustic character, in the heart of a very prestigious but intensively built central district of Milan.
    You enter, from a gate carved into a boundary wall, into a beautiful garden (which recalls what until a few decades ago must have been largely the appearance - very green - of this neighborhood) searching for a noble-looking residence, but you risk overlooking (it happened to me) the rationalist architecture building, certainly not sumptuous on the outside, which occupies a part of the garden, to the left of the swimming pool; and instead it's precisely to this that you should turn.
    Once inside the building, a guided tour or, as in my case, an efficient audio guide, introduces the various rooms, of which the notable ones are located mainly on the mezzanine and first floors. The great wealth of the former owners, and at the same time their refined culture, can be perceived from the beauty of the furniture, the elegance of the furnishings, the richness and excellence of the paintings and sculptures arranged everywhere.
    The audio guide effectively highlights the roles of the architect who created the villa, Piero Portaluppi (1888-1967) and the architect who subsequently made significant changes to the original interior design, Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981).
    I was in fact overwhelmed by the succession of elegant rooms, such as those on the different floors of the building (including the sumptuous bathrooms on the first floor); or even splendidly functional, such as the kitchen.
    The audio guide also draws attention to the family of the clients: the couple Gigina Necchi, from a family of industrialists from Pavia (who lived for a hundred years, 1901-2001), and Angelo Campiglio (1891-1984), originally a doctor but who would later become the manager of his wife's business. Gigina's sister, Nedda (1900-1993), would also live with them until the end.
    The way in which they lived in the house and divided the different spaces between themselves and with their frequent, illustrious guests is also narrated in an engaging way. Ultimately, you leave the visit to the villa aware of having made a beautiful and engaging immersion in a way of life not very distant chronologically from our own, but well-off far above average, and above all enlivened by a cultural vivacity that was also exceptional.
    Written November 13, 2024
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  • Vacation67664190053
    11 contributions
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    A fairly sizable and very well-curated collection. The paintings were well-lit and presented, masterpieces scattered throughout, so pace yourself (a Da Vinci in the very last room was the final impression I took away). A joy to visit.
    Written December 16, 2024
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  • Tourist603479
    Fuengirola, Spain161 contributions
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    Another amazing basilica and worth going to see the building and all the work done to create it. It has amazing stained glass and paintings inside too.
    Written July 3, 2024
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  • Lauren
    West Yorkshire, UK866 contributions
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    Just around the corner from the Duomo, on a street so busy you can walk past without noticing it, is this church. A quiet haven that feels like a million miles away from the bustling noisy street just outside its doors. A beautiful church. Really worth a visit.
    Written December 17, 2024
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  • Donald K
    Edmonton, Canada1,178 contributions
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    The price of this museum was more reasonable than others in the area. This is simply a former residence opened to the public as a museum. It reminded me of being a much smaller version of the Wallace Collection in London England. I wondered if some of the skulls were real. Check that out and let me know!
    Written September 20, 2024
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  • Jorge Santis
    Fort Lauderdale, FL3 contributions
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    The museum is not large in size but houses a handful of major canvases. Among the major works there is a beautiful Rafael portrait.
    Written December 27, 2022
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  • manuela g
    Sant Lluis, Spain23 contributions
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    I did it in 2004 and then I discovered a parallel world made of mental images. Images that live in our own brains that have not difference with the images processed by our own eyes. You'll discover how an impairment could become a resource. Trust me, you'll be disappointed. And you'll give a great help to visual impairment community!
    Written February 12, 2019
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  • soinic
    Lux.3,018 contributions
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    Close to the Duomo, you can visit (for free!) this unique ossuary.

    It is really a hidden gem off the beaten path.

    May be a little spooky/creepy, but really special and memorable.

    You can light a candle/leave a donation.
    Written August 26, 2024
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  • Brun066
    Florence, Italy13,976 contributions
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    “Pirelli Hangar Bicocca”, an exhibition dedicated to contemporary art, is one of the most important testimonies of the outstanding function that Milan plays today in Italy, as a city of culture.
    It's also a document of the patronage of the leading economic classes of the city: the firm “Pirelli”, promoter of the structure and founded in 1872, is still today among the world leaders in the production of tires.
    However, the buildings in which the institution is located are originally due to another leading Italian industrial firm, “Breda”, a mechanical company founded in 1886, dedicated to diversified production, and for a long time the main one in Italy in the construction of locomotives and railway carriages.
    Railway production on the one hand, and giant electrical transformers on the other, were precisely the former destinations of the premises of the exhibition. Today, completely restored, they host temporary exhibitions of high level, which follow one another.
    At the time of our visit (November 2024), the exhibition “A seed under our tongue” by Saodat Ismailova and an exhibition dedicated to Jean Tinguely are underway.
    Ismailova, born 1981, an Uzbek filmmaker, is present here with the simultaneous projection - in the large available rooms - of seven long films in a continuous loop, producing a strong scenic and emotional impact, dedicated to different topics, but all concerning the culture and nature of Central Asia.
    Tinguely (1925-1991), is a Swiss author quite well known for his production of works of art of all sizes, all consisting of potentially self-propelled mechanisms: “the machine is first and foremost the instrument that allows me to be poetic” is the phrase by Tinguely that in my view best conveys the meaning of his art. There are 37 works exposed here, notable for their visual and auditory effects.
    In-depth information brochures, in Italian and English, are freely available for both artists.
    Aside from the temporary exhibitions, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca also hosts an outstanding permanent exhibition, that of the “Seven Heavenly Palaces” (2004) by the German sculptor and painter Anselm Kiefer (born 1945). It occupies the huge hangar (3000 square meters and 30 meters high) once used for the production of electrical transformers, and strikes the visitor with the presence (also enhanced by adequate lighting) of seven ghostly towers built with elements of containers and reinforced concrete. In the author’s intentions, these towers hark back to ancient civilizations that have disappeared, which created monumental architectural works - now ruins - to celebrate the divine.
    Last but not least: viewing all the exhibitions, permanent and temporary, is completely free.
    Getting to the exhibition by public transit is possible using the metro plus buses. However, we preferred to simply walk for about 1 km, from the “Sesto Marelli” metro stop (line 1, red).
    Overall, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca seemed to me to be an excellent exhibition. I will definitely visit the exhibitions dedicated to new artists, on my next trips to Milan.
    Written November 21, 2024
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  • Ola S
    Groningen, The Netherlands1 contribution
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Very nice show, it is given in Italian but there is an AI translation in english/german available if you bring your headphones.
    Written April 4, 2024
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  • Magdalena G
    49 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    This small museum is not only an art collection, but a real (and totally fancy) house of a 1920s Milanese couple, an engineer and an artist. Beautiful art deco interiors give a real glimpse of the city at it’s finest. The staff is very friendly and helpful (and tolerant of my poor Italian language skills ;) ) It’s good to spend a while in the real city of real people-not just see a live postcard of the iconic places.
    Written December 27, 2024
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  • Kevin L
    Chapel Hill, NC99 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Not to be missed when in Milan. This train station transported innocent people to their deaths under the tacit consent of the Milanese people. This memorial is absolutely beautiful, stunning, disgusting and disturbing. Take your children so they can see how inhumane this world has been to the Jews and reflect on the atrocities past and present being committed today against the Jewish community.
    Written February 11, 2025
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  • tslimmo4mp
    Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France61 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Stumble into it. Found it very interesting and a beautiful place. The vines are beautifully kept, the place is oozing history.
    Written March 6, 2024
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