DAY 9 | MILAN SHORT VISIT – LAKE LUCERNE
Saturday, August 02, 2014
DAY 9 | MILAN SHORT VISIT - LAKE LUCERNE
Breakfast in hotel. Depart for the Italian Financial City - Milan. The city famous for Da Vinci's last supper. A painting that has caused enormous controversy in the Catholic world. (This painting will not be visited due to large crowd in a small church of St. Gracia.)
Stop briefly by the Milan New Opera house, time to walk in to the large shopping mall of the Galeria Vittorio Emanuelle II, indeed a monument itself. See the Duomo.
All a while, please beware of pickpockets and gypsy here.
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| City of Milan |
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| Giotto. the delicious chocolate of country. |
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| The Gothic Duomo, Milan |
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| Zodiac Sign |
Did you found yours Zodiac sign? I found mine.
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Lunch on your own. And I have mine fast food as lunch - Burger King which is definitely juicy cheeseburger. Yes, double some-more! :D
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| The Legend of Duomo, Milan |
Statue of St. Bartholomew, with his own skin. (by Marco d'Agrate, 1562)
One of the most precious piece of art in Milan Cathedral, is the sculpture of St. Bartholomew, by Marco d'Agrate, made around 1562 and placed in the right transept of the Cathedral. St.Bartholomew was condemned to one of most cruel and inhuman execution: the Syrian martyrdom. That is being skinned alive and then beheaded. The status depicts the saint flayed with the Bible in hand. The masterpiece is characterized by fine precision anatomical with which the human body is rendered devoid of skin, with the skin thrown like a stole on the shoulders and body of the martyr.
The sculptor, with not too much modesty, signed it on the bottom of the statue. "NON ME PRAXITELES SED MARCO FINXIT AGRAT." ("I was not sculpted by Praxiteles, but by Marco d'Agrate").
After the short visit, enter SWITZERLAND by passing Como Lake: Lugano lake and St. Gotthard Alpine highway.
Hotel Details:
Eden Hotel Garni
Axenstrasse
Sisikon CH 6452
Switzerland.
Tel: 41 41 8204141
Fax: 41 41 8205106
Date: 19th September 2010
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