Castello Sforzesco Milan

Spring break has finally arrived! Though I’m sad I don’t get to spend a whole week in the Florida sunshine with my Grandparents like usual, I’m more than excited to be heading to Italy (the homeland) for a 10 day long adventure. My friends and I planned a trip through the whole country. We booked many hostels and train tickets, …

Hi all, I've had a little over a week now in Milan and I've really taken to the city. It's enormously different to Sydney in both layout and lifestyle - a very quintessentially Northern Italian city, simultaneously modern and traditional - but it's great fun and I'm really excited to make it my second home. Flights from Australia are typically …

26 hours in a plane via Singapore and Abu Dhabi, and I'm back in Milano...

I arrive just in time to celebrate Flo's birthday with her and her friends. We had an amazing day, eating at Trattoria Toscana (charming little local restaurant) with her Aunties for lunch, then an Aperitivo with her friends for dinner.

The food at La …

Day 2 in Milan and we did the official tourist bit. Unable to find anywhere to buy tram tickets to get us into the Duomo so we walked the +1km into central Milan. We walked around the corner and smack there was the Duomo - my god its an impressive site.

The construction of the Duomo began in 1386 but it wasn't until January 6, 1965 that …

Después de dormir como morsas porque Venecia nos dejó de cama, salimos tipo 12 para Milán con la viandita que nos armó la tana, Rafi una genia!!! Todo el viaje de Verona a Milán hablamos con un Indio que era Hindú y se iba a visitar a su familia porque vivía ahora en Verona. Hablamos de los dioses para ellos y del Islam en India y nos dio algunos …

Brera Gallery. As I sit here at my continental breakfast, reading through yesterday's list, I must admit to a slight sense of disbelief at just how much we're managing to pack into the days here on Cultural Boot Camp. The Brera gallery was a delight. Fortunately, we were first through the door and for the first hour and a half, we had the most …

So, after a 3+ hour train ride yesterday, we arrived in Milan. We even took an extra train which saved us about 5 blocks of walking but cost us about 40 minutes in terms of waiting and riding said train. It would have been faster to walk. Oh well, the things you discover once you acquire a decent map.

Nora has been excellent travelling on …

When we got to Milan, I was exhausted. It was time for some more cough syrup, so I reached for the box and felt something sticky. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the contents of the bottle spilled all over my coat and onto the seat of the bus. All I could think was, "Franco is going to kill me!" Then I had the double realization that we …

Bon giorno!

I left Nice, France Wednesday AM and got to Milan, Italy by about 3PM. The train ride was really beautiful because most of it was right along the coastline! I met some nice folks from South Africa on the train who are thinking about moving to the US or Canada. Sounds like Sudafrica is getting a little unsafe. As usual, the …

Another eventful weekend in the life of me!

We started out Friday by taking a lovely day trip to Milan. We got to the station, bought a map, and we were off! First we took the metro to go see the local Duomo. The duomo in Milan is particularly special because it is the sixth largest cathedral in all of Europe and the largest in Italy. It …

... the San Siro to the Duomo to pizza for dinner, it was another perfect day. I was also able to go see Castello Sforzesco a 14th century castle.  Walking through the castle I heard a guy singing in Italian playing a guitar.  He was sitting ...

... the theatre must be on the inside. Unfortunately we were not able to see the inside. So we kept on and headed to the Castello Sforzesco. This was a huge fortress and castle. At one stage fortifications reached 3 km in length and covered an area of 25.9 ...

... had already sold out. I was hoping for a few no shows but there were no spare spots. I also went to the Castello Sforzesco an immense brick castle whose defences where designed by Da Vinci. Some further adjustments were made by Napoleon when he ...

... make the image extend back into the wall. The perspective lines in the painting match these almost exactly. Then to the Castello Sforzesco Museum, which had all kinds of fascinating stuff.  Sarcophagi, a fresco by Da Vinci, and the Pieta Rondanini ...

... great and Tony enjoyed it to which was a nice surprise. After wandering around a bit we found The Castello Sforzesco which is known as a symobol of Milan and walked around the courtyard enjoying the view of the giant castle. You could walk into the ...

... nbsp; We wandered over to a nearby park that was on our way to the Duomo, and at the edge of it we encountered the Castello Sforzesco.  The castle was wide open to just meander through, so we did just that.  We discovered that inside the walls ...

... But we added to our ever expanding Italian vocabulary once we figured that out. Then we walked up to Castello Sforzesco, a 14th century castle in the middle of Milan.  There are tons of cats living in the moat, lazing in the sun or on old cannonballs, ...

... on the castle premises, we "lost" our group and continued explorations on our own...       Castello Sforzesco now houses several museums and art collections, among them the Museum of Musical Instruments, the Furniture Museum, ...

... the opportunity to stand on the bulls genitals and spin 3 times - supposedly this brings good luck. Our next stop was the Castello Sforzesco  (Sforza Castle) one of the biggest citadels in Europe. It used to be the seat and residence of the Duchy ...

... it would be too difficult to squeeze this in if it meant 4 hours each way. Scratch Zermatt. We then took the subway to the Castello Sforzesco (built in 1348) to catch the HO/HO bus. There was an official who said the next bus would be along in twenty ...