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  • Luigi Cagnola built this magnificent triumphal arch in 1807 for Napoleon to pass through when visiting Milan. It didn’t get finished quite in time and was inaugurated instead by a bemused Habsburg emperor.

  • In 1999, Milan’s horse track became home to a bronze horse cast by an American foundation determined to bring to fruition Leonardo da Vinci’s oft-sketched equine tribute to Lodovico il Moro.

  • 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.

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

  • From hand-written scores to costumes, anything related to La Scala is at this temporary home until 2005 (see Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan).

  • A 17th-century palazzo containing a Tiepolo fresco and a museum of cinema.

  • Palazzo Litta

    Italy’s state railway headquarters and a theatre occupy the expansive Rococo palazzo near the Last Supper .

  • Pirelli Tower

    Its reign as the world’s tallest concrete skyscraper lasted less than a decade, but this wedge rising on the site of Pirelli’s first tyre factory remains a symbol of Lombardy’s robust economy.

  • Piecemeal city gate incorporating ancient Roman funerary reliefs and a 13th-century marble tabernacle.

  • “The Scala of football”, shared by rivals Inter and AC Milan.

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