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A BIT OF DISNEYLAND IN OLD EUROPE?
Milano Galleria and the Duomo

Any trip to Milan you will likely find your way to the Piazza del Doumo where Milan’s sample of gothic cathedral architecture will impress with it’s ornate filigree. Massive and complex, the Milan Duomo is not the most elegant of the gothic cathedrals, falling a little in the “more is less” category of excess, but an impressive example. Constantly under repair, some part of the pale golden stone is almost always under cover or behind scaffolding, but access to the roof provides for a close up view of the intricate mason masters stone carving art and pigeon’s eye view of the city.

Just off the Piazza, stop for a Milanese style lunch in the world’s first indoor shopping mall, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, built in the 1870's, a cruciform structure, like a "cathedral of shopping" with an elegant high arched glass ceiling that protects you from the Lombardy rain as you stroll from the Duomo piazza on the one end to the La Scala Opera house on the other. And although this is the original, you get an odd sense upon entering that, gee, it looks just like Disneyland…or Las Vegas attempts at recapturing this old world style. But here you can get a real Milanese scalopine and go stylin' Italian in a real Borsalino hat. © Bargain Travel Europe

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