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Top 10 Best of the Rest

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1. Museo del Risorgimento

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.
2. Porta Nuova

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

A 17th-century palazzo containing a Tiepolo fresco and a museum of cinema.
4. Museo di Storia Naturale

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

Italy’s state railway headquarters and a theatre occupy the expansive Rococo palazzo near the Last Supper .
6. Museo Teatrale alla Scala

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

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.
8. 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.
9. Ippodromo

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.
10. San Siro (Stadio Meazza)

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