Nearby Attractions
My accommodation is located near the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in the city center, you can walk to the trendy area of via Tortona, the nightlife area on the Navigli as well as to the Cattolica University.
Duomo Milan is 1.5 km from Olona Place, while La Scala is 1.6 km from the property. Milan Linate Airport is 9 km away.
Milan City Centre is a great choice for travellers interested in food, luxury brand shopping and shopping.
Piazza Sant'Eustorgio
Piazza Sant’Eustorgio. Behind the facade, redone in Romanesque style in 1862-1865, stands another very important and ancient place of worship. The basilica is a stratified construction including parts from the 7th, 11th and 12th centuries.Linked with the worship and relics of the Three Wise Men, which tradition would have brought to the city by St.
Eustorgius, the church is the end point of the parade of the Three Wise Men that starts at the Duomo at Epiphany.
The bell tower also recalls the Three Wise Men, for in place of the cross it has an 8-tipped star like the one that guided them to Bethlehem at its tip.Since 2011, the facade and the chapels
have been permanently lit up at night.But the true jewel of the basilica is the Portinari Chapel, the highlight of Renaissance architecture in Milan,entirely covered with frescoes, with
the upper parts by Vincenzo Foppa (1466-1468).
Santa Maria delle Grazie
.A splendid example of Renaissance architecture, best known for Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, the Cenacolo di Leonardo, with an imposing Renaissance tribune added in 1492.
In the oldest part of the church (in the Gothic style) are frescoes by Gaudenzio Ferrari and Marco d’Oggiono, as
well as a monument to Ludovico il Moro. The 15th century “Madonna delle Grazie” in the left chapel of the
tribune was much venerated during the plagues of the 16th and 17th century. In the chapel on the right
was Titian’s “Crowning with thorns”,which the French took to Paris in the late 18th century, now in the Louvre.
A door on the left leads to a little cloister attributed to Bramante
Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio
Bishop Ambrose founded the basilica in 379 as a “basilica Martyrum” on the tombs of Saints Gervasius and Protasius and was himself buried here in 397. Its current Romanesque appearance is
the result of thorough changes and reconstructions between the 9th and 12th centuries as well as modern restoration work.
Before the basilica is the solemn foyer of Ansperto, concealing the facade from passersby on the street. Inside the church are a 10th century ciborium above the gold altar, a masterpiece of
the Carolingian goldsmiths’ art, and the crypt. The apse is decorated with a big 6th to 8th century mosaic
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”- Via San Vittore 21.
Housed in a 16th century former Olivetan monastery, this
museum is one of the largest and most documented European collections dedicated to the evolution of scientific thought. A visit will require several hours and may be divided over more
than one day, according to interest. If you want to get a general overview, you should immediately go to the first floor dedicated to Leonardo, then the two spectacular outdoor pavilions on
train, air and naval transportation, and finally the ground floor with its history of energy, mining, steel, metal and land transportation. Since December 2005, the museum also houses the Toti submarine. Its arrival in August of 2005 was followed by thousands of Milanese locals and was a true “event”: it arrived into the city by river and by road in the middle of the night to
avoid blocking traffic.
Cenacolo Vinciano
Not far away is Santa Maria delle Grazie, a jewel of the Renaissance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In this fascinating part of Milan we may find numerous memories of Leonardo da Vinci, not only in the former Dominican monastery next to the church where he painted his “Last Supper” but also in the garden behind Palazzo delle Stelline (across from the church), known as “Orti di Leonardo”, with the vineyard which Ludovico
il Moro, Duke of Milan, had given Leonardo. The great Tuscan painter spent more than 20 years in Milan, where he painted the two versions of the “Virgin of the Rocks” and “Musician” (in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana) and invented hydraulic machinery and war machines..