Milan overview

Milan

We offer Milan architecture tours guided by local architects and open visits to architecture studios.

Straight to us from the Roman colony from whom we have kept the main urban layout of the city centre, where it is located theMilan Cathedral, known as Il Duomo di Milano, the most important example of Gothic architecture in Italy; this cosmopolitan city has been growing and adding styles to a fragmented urban grid. The most significant period of chaos started in the XX century with the Liberty style and the fast reconstruction and growth after II World War.

Renaissance architecture is represented by the amazingSforza Castle, one of the largest citadels in Europe housing several museums.Other architectural masterpieces are the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Palazzo Reale, Arco della Pace and also Basilicas like the Basilica di Sant’Ambrogioand Sant’Eustorgio,.

Combining constructions of Liberty and Neoclassical styles alongside with modern architecture represented by skyscrapers like the Unicredit Tower, finished in 2012 -the tallest skyscraper in Italy-. Contemporary buildingsfrom leading architects likeZahaHadid, Daniel Libeskind, GioPonti, Oscar Niemeyer, ArataIsozaki, Giuseppe Terragni or Renzo Piano have turned Milan into Italy’s undoubtedly capital of fashion and design.

Milan tours & visits

Matteo Martella

Guided by Matteo Martella

Milan, feel the void

Apart from its fashionable appearance there is a hidden side of this city, discreet, and with a modern architecture that is the classiest in Milan's closet

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Milan highlights

Santa Maria delle Grazie

By Architecture Weekend

This church and convent isn’t just an architectural place to visit. It has in it The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, in the...

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Piazza del Duomo

By Architecture Weekend

The main center quire of Milan’s city, it was named in fact after the Duomo, Milam’s cathedral. It is mainly a 17.000 square meter...

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Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano)

By Architecture Weekend

Milan’s cathedral is a history lesson by itself. For all those architecture lovers from the Roman period all the way to Bonaparte’s power era,...

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Torre Velasca

By Architecture Weekend

Velasca Tower is today still one of living examples of what was the generation of modern architecture in Milan, right in the middle of the World War...

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Torre Pirelli

By Architecture Weekend

Known also as “Pirellone”, these offices were at first the headquarters of the Pirelli Co. but today is owned by the Regional Council of...

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Tortona 37 Multi-Purpose Complex

By Architecture Weekend

 Low Impact Architecture. Part of the long-term requalification of a former industrial area in Milan, the Tortona 37 is a mixed-purpose complex...

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