Duomo

Milan's cathedral is the third largest church in the world. It took 4 centuries to built it.

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October 24th 2006
Last weekend Erik and I went to Milan to visit our Italian friends. We had always been told that Milan was nothing really special and we would be better off going to Venice, Pisa, Florence, Rome…. What a bad advice! The only good thing about this bad advice was that we haven’t created expectations, and once we got there…. Milan pretty much exceeded all expectations! Despite all the rain, we ... 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

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