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Milano is a very nice and great city. My parents and me visited that pretty city in 1986, yes, many years ago, and I still keep very nice memories of our stay there. It´s worth to have a visit to Milano.
Il Duomo is fantastic, and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele too. I´ve liked your pictures. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward for part II. Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain.:tup: |
Very nice! We need more Milano!
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I'd probably enjoy a visit, it appears somewhat underrated or something. But then, when you've got Rome, Florence, Siena, Naples, Venice and even much more in the same country, competition is damn tough.
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This is true. But if you have a small chance to see Milan, look at this city. There are many interesting places to visit http://goitaly.about.com/od/moreital...es/p/milan.htm |
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One other problem is that Milan has more modern core districts than other Italian cities. Some of the neighborhoods have a "postwar Germanic" type look, which is arguably less than interesting. But the city as a whole is still pretty beautiful, as seen in these pics. |
PART 2
Arch of Peace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Sempione http://i44.tinypic.com/29e9ll.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2z3rm6c.jpg Atmosfera rilassata al Parco Sempione relaxed atmosphere in the Parco Sempione (Simplon Park) http://i44.tinypic.com/15ph8x0.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/2s8n040.jpg People and camera http://i40.tinypic.com/2cgzr5j.jpg city skyline in a damp day, taken from “monte Stella” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Stella_(Milan) http://i42.tinypic.com/29lok1i.jpg Football Stadium GiuseppeMeazza (Stadio San Siro) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Siro http://i43.tinypic.com/vsf3gm.jpg 1960 circa http://i42.tinypic.com/2a0kcad.jpg Leonardo's horses by Charles C. Dent located inside the Hippodrome San Siro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_horse http://i39.tinypic.com/10o1a9g.jpg Milan Trade Fair (FieraMilano) http://www.fieramilano.it/en http://i40.tinypic.com/9tjy8m.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/10ptuac.jpg NH hotel near Milan trade fair – Dominique Perroult Architecture http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotel.../nh-fiera.html http://www.perraultarchitecte.com/en...y_4_stars.html http://i43.tinypic.com/b8ra0.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/16c2790.jpg Moon over city http://i41.tinypic.com/x0zdhf.jpg Idroscalo the “Sea of Milan” :haha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idroscalo http://www.vividroscalo.it/ terraces and tower for finish-line judges for rowing races http://i44.tinypic.com/27zvt3t.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/28vbpk3.jpg a rainy day http://i44.tinypic.com/15d0184.jpg a sunny day http://i39.tinypic.com/2virybo.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/mjvl02.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/e5fvc8.jpg HISTORIC PICS Old railway Central Station taken in the 20's in italian: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazion...Centrale_(1864) http://i40.tinypic.com/2rw8ae0.jpg Milan city bombed in World War II. People leave the city http://i39.tinypic.com/o7n9zo.jpg Venezia Avenue about 1927 http://i41.tinypic.com/ilg3td.jpg gio' |
Nice thread about Milan. :tup:
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@mediolanum53 I've got this feeling: people are smart and know what to do. The city's a business hub. It's getting its glory in modernism and worldwide business while building anything ambitious in Rome or Venice is known to almost be the Via Crucis nowadays.
To the forum: notice that Naples features a pretty impressive business cluster too, except the economy's not as big yet over there. |
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NAPLES BUSINESS DISTRICT http://i40.tinypic.com/2eb4v2a.jpg end OT :) |
Centro direzionale di Napoli hosts at most 1 million m² of office space.
It is not a lot, It is not even sure that this is the main business core of Naples. I would be quite cautious about the so called visible business cluster, it is not necessarily representative of the economic power of the city. In many European cities, business cores with many office buildings are usually less visible than in the American or Asian cities because they are not much architecturally different that a dense residential district. By example there are more office space in Rome than in Hong Kong. I think that this fact would suprise almost everyone. Don't be fooled by the visibility, often the reality is not what it seems. |
Both of you guys are surely right. Rome is likely still quite busy and above all desirable and well off as fuck. I think real estate in its core is even more insane than it is in Paris's. Then as a tourist, you take a look at locals over there, nice, stylish and sexy looking in their sweet stereotypical Dolce Vita lifestyle, along their lovely historic streets... That is obviously fine indeed.
But it's a fact, modern developments in Rome are much less ambitious than they are elsewhere, which is some kind of marker to me, meaning growth has to be found elsewhere. In Italy, why not Calabria for example? As growth is a conquest. Oh yes, I heard how hard people in Italy have been trying to improve the south, like in France we've been trying to redevelop our poor crappy ghettos. Well, we've all been somewhat failing so far. It's gonna take something bigger. So the bigger is apparently growing right there in Milan and definitely in Paris's suburbs, and I'm glad about it. Maybe in Lyon, Marseille and Naples sometime soon. Again, growth and wealth are a total conquest, nothing should be left aside. |
I never knew that Milan shared a sister monument with Charlotte... great thread!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/6...0dd105c6_z.jpg image from flickr |
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Creative works by the same artist: Arnaldo Pomodoro in Charlotte http://www.arti-fact.com/1974/sculpture/378 in Milan http://www.virtualtravelglobe.com/it...nde-disco.html Arnaldo Pomodoro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Pomodoro http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/c...tists/bios/597 gio' |
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And Rome has been harder hit by the economic problems than Paris, at least in terms of recent real estate trends. It's still extremely expensive in Rome, but Paris has few rivals globally. I think Rome also has a smaller "global elite pied-a-terre" housing stock. It's just a smaller city, and with less real estate serving that sort of population. |
That was my first time to see the city at street level. I was expecting a lot more foot traffic, similar to other cities of its caliber..:shrug:..I now know where to go and not be engulfed by other tourist..:hmmm::tup::cool:
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PART 3 - Other pics
Palazzo Lombardia: New Headquarters building Lombardy Region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardy This skyscraper also known as “Altra Sede” (Other Seat) to distinguish it from Pirelli Highrise, former headquarters of the Lombardy Region headquarters and even before of the multinational company: Pirelli and C.Spa which takes its nome see here http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=31315 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Lombardia http://i43.tinypic.com/11tsvte.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/59wz06.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/2ufxcpk.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2me3bj4.jpg Pirelli Highrise - now a branch of the regional government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirelli_Tower this building is still the most beautiful skyscraper in Milan. In my opinion http://i44.tinypic.com/2cfr1qq.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/flkhsl.jpg Various A very large Table-football (or “biliardino” or “calcio-balilla in italian), for 11 players http://i41.tinypic.com/ofzeix.jpg These ones are of the normal size http://i40.tinypic.com/2vwzmn8.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/4sb1hc.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2uep7qc.jpg the city streets are empty. We are in the month of August. And the inhabitants have gone on vacation. Many on the beach, some on the mountains or lakes. Many in the tropical countries http://i42.tinypic.com/2myofug.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/25ambm9.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2s0z5f6.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/t4yb81.jpg Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University) university institution providing courses in science, technology and engineering http://www.polimi.it/en/english-version/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politecnico_di_Milano http://i40.tinypic.com/24vqp21.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2rqniis.jpg statue of Giuseppe Colombo in face of Polytechnic http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giusepp...mbo_(ingegnere) – in italian he worked for 45 years as a professor, at the Polytechnic, http://i43.tinypic.com/x2ma1g.jpg and, still old streetcar. Very, very bautiful :yes: http://i40.tinypic.com/e96fc6.jpg and, .....again some historical pics :) Piazza Costanzo Ciano '30s, now Piazza Cordusio ((Cordusio square) downtown http://i44.tinypic.com/1038ppd.jpg Largo Augusto '30s http://i44.tinypic.com/2ilkhvs.jpg Via Carlo Farini '20s http://i40.tinypic.com/2r77xps.jpg gio' |
Great photos! Very nice to see Milan here on SSP! :tup:
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Evan the tourist are on vacation..:shrug::cool:
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Very Cool! Milan is Nice.
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