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Everything from jeans to prêt-à-porter from the fashion iconoclast who died young in 1994.

An enfant terrible of Milan’s fashion scene since 1983.

Whether you want to explore the flatlands to the south, tackle mountains rising sheer from the north shores, or simply wend along the lake itself, hire a bike to see Garda at a leisurely pace.

Two Milanese brothers created this Neo-Renaissance palazzo in 1883–94. They acquired as much as they could in the way of tapestries, furnishings and paintings from across Italy, and what they couldn’t obtain in the original they hired an army of Lombard craftsmen to imitate. One room is copied from the ducal palace in Mantova, one from the Urbino’s ducal seat, while another is lifted whole from a palazzo in Sondrio. The overall effect is a glorious mixture of Renaissance craftsmanship and Romantic sensibilities.

Find out about the heroes after whom two-thirds of Italy’s streets are named at this museum tracing Italy’s 19th-century risorgimento (unification) movement.

Though there are Romanesque carvings and detached frescoes galore in the cloisters, chapels and chambers of this medieval monastery, the real focus here is on Brescia’s great era as a Roman colony, and the archaeological works on display are astoundingly beautiful, numerous and well-preserved.

Bolognini’s mansion houses exhibitions on the history of Milan and its families, as well as nautical memorabilia.

Dinosaurs and taxidermied creatures are among the exhibits at the natural history museum founded in 1838.

This museum houses important works from the treasuries of churches across Milan and Lombardy. In addition to numerous small panels by the 14th- and early 15th-century post-Giotto Gothic schools of central Italy, it preserves 17th-century Flemish tapestries and a number of fine altarpieces. Among these are Hayez’s glowing Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene and Tintoretto’s Christ and the Adulturer .