Duomo
-Lucky shiny leg
-Damage from bomb, thought to be the leg, actually just a random part on the door
-Statue of liberty, the original (lady liberty eventually was a mix of this and French statue)
-took forever to build
-Visconti family
Visconti family seal
-Snake eating a human, seen on the inter soccer team and a car logo
-Viper because of Dante’ poem
Hospital business school
-don’t touch the grass, because of the graves
Bones chapel – Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa
-decor came from hospital graves
Opera house – La Scala Opera
-Amazing acoustics, best in the world.
-You haven’t made it in opera unless you’ve performed here
-bombed, but rebuilt within a year exactly because of the amount of photographs that were available
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
-Built to commemorate Italy being unified in 1861
-lit by gas lights at first, but was the first place in Milan to get electricity
-First Prada store opened here
-Savino, first restaurant in galleria
Merchant market
-Great acoustics
-where the word bankrupt came from
Stock Market Exchange
-the finger, the guy
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