Via Padova in Milan is 4 km long, from Piazzale Loreto to the north-east border of the city with Sesto San Giovanni. It boasts the primacy to have the largest number of inhabitants in the city – more than ten thousand – and 355 house numbers. It is a succession of railing houses, buildings from […]
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Have you seen the Lirico? This is what the new theater in Milan is like, dedicated to Giorgio Gaber
The new season Il Lirico reopens today with the same vocation: “We like to call it the” people’s theater “because our intent is to attract as many people as possible with intelligent and interesting proposals “, he said Matteo Forte, general manager of the Milanese Lirico and Nazionale theaters and managing director for Italy of […]
The Piazza Fontana massacre: memory in images
December 12, 1969. It is 4.37 pm when the central entrance of the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, in Piazza Fontana in Milan, is gutted by a bomb. They are seven kilos of TNT closed in a metal box inside a leather suitcase. It is Friday afternoon and there are still many farmers in the bank to […]
Sant’Ambrogio, the story of the patron saint of Milan from the Carnival to the Prima della Scala
Even before becoming a saint, Ambrogio, brought gifts to Milan that still stand today. Just think of the four more days at Carnival. As patron saint he has instead a feast that falls on December 7 the day before another church holiday, the Immaculate Conception, so as to bring a long weekend of holidays to […]
Banksy’s immersive exhibition returns to Milan
Why not immerse yourself in Banksy’s world before setting off on a journey? Opens an exhibition (yes, it’s yet another: but Banksy is Banksy, by now we know) dedicated to famous street artist from Bristol. This is not new: The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience (until February 27) she had already successfully occupied […]
Christmas 2021 in Milan: the events not to be missed
Christmas in Milan is celebrated with thirty kilometers of lights throughout the city between rows, bright curtains, good wishes between the center and the suburbs and then magnificent trees, starting with that of Swarovski which with its sparkling crystals now traditionally illuminates the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. It is the heart of Christmas in the shadow […]
An orchestra, through the mirror
This article is published in issue 46 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until November 16, 2021 Sixty kilometers of road, an hour that can become an hour and a half, one way. Then there is the return. Every week for twelve years Nadia has taken Umberto, 25, to the rehearsal of the orchestra. It is […]