Galleria Vittorio Emanuele ll, Milan

A Taste of Milan

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June 29th 2011
We had prepared for today by checking out the bus we would need to catch to Bergamo, a local station, in order to travel by train into Milan. All went to plan and we arrived at Milan Stazione Centrale then found our way to the underground Metro which would take us close to the gallery housing one of the most loved works of art in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. We had tried unsucc ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more