Milan - news and informations about Milan and its surroundings

Milan is situated between Adda and Ticino, at the centre of the Po Plain, is gone through from the main roads of communications with the Italy and the european countries. Beyond to be an important cultural centre, represents the economical capital of the Italy. To visit are Square of the Cathedral, that constitutes the centre of the town, the Cathedral, built in 1386 and that reaches a height of 108 m with a famous Madonnina raised in 1774 on the greater needle. Milan is rich of other monuments between that the Real Palace, the musuem of the Cathedral, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Teatro della Scala, the Church of Sant'Ambrogio, the Castello Sforzesco, the well-known Skyscraper Pirelli and the art gallery of Brera. It is seat of numerous fairs among which the Fair International Campionaria in April, the Fair of the Furnishings in May-September-November, the SMAU in October and the Fair of "Oh bej! Oh bej!" at the first of December, the knownest milanese appointment that counts numerous bright stalls until to slow evening. The better period to visit the town are the spring and the autumn for the vivid colours of whom is constituted the neighboring country. As regards the cooking the best dishes are the risotto with the saffron, the cotoletta to the milanese, the bone pierce, the cassoeula and the trippa. The typical milanese sweets are the panettone and the Easter dove-cake.