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My FAVORITE: San Maurizo Church

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March 14th 2007
I did not know what I was in store for when I set foot in this GORGEOUS GEM of a church on the busy and very hip Corso Magenta. Every inch of the interior is covered with ornately painted frescos. The brilliance of the color and design is unparalleled by any other church I have ever seen on ANY of my travels. It was initally built in 1503 and was home to the Benedictine nuns. Because of th ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Milan

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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