Milan/Iconic

The 8 Most Iconic Landmarks in Milan

8 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie
~1 min

Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie

Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 20123 Milan

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Santa Maria delle Grazie is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — a 15th-century Dominican church whose exterior combines a brick Gothic nave by Guiniforte Solari with a Renaissance tribune added by Bramante in the 1490s.

Duomo di Milano
~3 min

Duomo di Milano

Piazza del Duomo, Centro Storico, Milan, 20123, Italy

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The Duomo di Milano is the largest Gothic cathedral in Italy and the third largest church in the world — a forest of 135 marble spires, 3,400 statues, and a rooftop terrace that lets you walk among the pinnacles 70 metres above the piazza.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
~1 min

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Piazza del Duomo, Centro Storico, Milan, 20123, Italy

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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the world's oldest active shopping mall — a cruciform glass-and-iron arcade completed in 1877 that connects Piazza del Duomo to Piazza della Scala and houses some of the most expensive retail real estate in Europe.

Pinacoteca di Brera
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Pinacoteca di Brera

Via Brera 28, 20121 Milan

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The Pinacoteca di Brera is Milan's most important art gallery — a collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting that rivals the Uffizi in Florence and contains some of the most reproduced images in Italian art.

Quadrilatero della Moda (Fashion District)
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Quadrilatero della Moda (Fashion District)

Via Monte Napoleone, Centro Storico, Milan, 20121, Italy

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The Quadrilatero della Moda is the fashion capital of the world compressed into four streets — Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Via Manzoni, and Corso Venezia form a rectangle of luxury boutiques that houses every major Italian fashion house (Prada, Versace, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino) alongside international brands in 18th-century palazzi that were designed for aristocrats and now serve fashionistas.

San Siro Stadium (Giuseppe Meazza)
~2 min

San Siro Stadium (Giuseppe Meazza)

Via Angelo Moratti, Somma Lombardo, 21019, Italy

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San Siro is the most famous football stadium in Italy — an 80,018-seat colosseum shared by AC Milan and Inter Milan, two of the most successful clubs in European football, who play their home games on the same pitch in alternate weeks.

Teatro alla Scala
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Teatro alla Scala

Via Filodrammatici 2, 20121 Milan

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La Scala is the most famous opera house in the world — a neoclassical theatre that has premiered operas by Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini, and whose opening night on December 7 (the feast of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan's patron saint) is the most important date in the international opera calendar.

The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie)
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The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie)

Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 20123 Milan

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Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is the most famous painting in Milan and one of the most important works of art in the world — a 4.

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