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The Sforza Castle and the Sempione Park
The Sforza Castle is located 300 meters away from the Cadorna station. This castle was commissioned by Galeazzo II between 1358 and 1368. Over the centuries, it has been used both as a fortress and as a mansion, and then it was demolished and reconstructed. The present structure is shaped as a large four-sided stronghold surrounded by walls featuring a facade surmounted by Filarete’s tower, a parade ground and the Duke’s court housing different museums. Behind the Castle, there is the Sempione Park, the city’s largest green area encompassing the Arena and the futuristic Torre del Parco, 109 meters high, designed by Giò Ponti.
Santa Maria delle Grazie and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper
Santa Maria delle Grazie is a Lombard late Gothic art example. It belongs to a vast architectural compound including also a convent, whose refectory hosts “The Last Supper”, Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated fresco, declared as world heritage masterpiece by the Unesco.
Churches : S.Ambrogio, S. Lorenzo Maggiore, Sant Eustorgio
The Martyrum” Basilica” was built by Bishop Ambrogio between 379 and 386. It is an important example of Romanesque Architecture. It features important works of art such as the early Christian sarcophagus (called Stilicone’s sarcophagus) and the gold altar, a goldsmith’s work of art dating back to Charlemagne’s time. S. Lorenzo Maggiore is a late ‘500’s church built on the remains of an early Christian building constructed between the end of the IVth century and the beginning of the Vth and already restructured in 1200 with a Romanesque style. In front of the church there are sixteen marble columns with Corinthian capitals, from an ancient Roman building back to 300 A.C. St. Eustorgio is located near Porta Ticinese. It was built with a Romanesque style in late 1100 on top of a very ancient building (IV century). It was destroyed in 1164 by Federico Barbarossa and reconstructed by the Dominicans between 1216 and 1220. The neoromanesque Facade was designed by Giovanni Brocca.
The Triennale (Palazzo dell’arte)
Palazzo dell’Arte was designed by Giovanni Muzio and built between 1931 and 1933. It has hosted the Milan Triennale since 1933. It is located in the quadrangle made up of the Sforza Castle, Arco della Pace and the Arena and features exhibition halls, a design and architecture bookshop and the Coffee Design.
Duomo
The Duomo cathedral is the symbol of Milan. It is renowned for its size (it is the third largest Catholic Church in the world after St Peter’s in Rome and the Seville Cathedral) and for its many statues (more than 3400). Its construction probably started in 1386 and was finished during the 1800. Its predominant style is late Gothic, but with elements belonging to the Romanesque tradition, such as for example the “hut” shaped facade”.
The Fashion District
The fashion district is located between via Montenapoleone, via della Spiga, corso Venezia and via Sant'Andrea. It features the most renowned Italian and foreign fashion boutiques.
Brera Pinacoteca
The Brera Pinacoteca’s heritage is extremely vast. It features many works of art such as the eight portraits of “Uomini d’Arme”” painted by Bramante, “Cristo morto” by Andrea Mantegna and “La rissa in galleria” by the futurist artist Umberto Boccioni.
Triennale Bovisa
The new Triennale Bovisa space has been recently opened very close to the Milano Bovisa train station (where the Malpensa Express stops too). This pavilion has been designed for exhibitions of contemporary art. It has 1400 m² for exhibitions and events and another 500 m² for the bookshop, the catering and public services.
Museum of Science and Technology
The National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” is the largest technological and scientific museum in Italy and is one of the best in the world for both its quality and size. It is subdivided into thematic areas devoted to transportation, materials, energy, communications etc.
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, originally and commonly referred to as the San Siro because of its location, is a football stadium located in the San Siro district in Milan, Italy. It is the home of both A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano. The stadium is named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for Internazionale, and briefly for Milan, in the 1930s and 1940s. It held UEFA five-star stadium status which was superseded by a new system of classification.
The stadium construction started in 1925 in the district of Milan named San Siro, with the new stadium originally called "Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro" (San Siro New Football Stadium). The idea to build a stadium in the same district as the horse racing track, belongs to the man who then was the president of AC Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private stadium only for football, without the athletics tracks which characterized the Italian stadia built with public funds. The inauguration was on September 19, 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw Internazionale defeat Milan 6–3. Originally, the ground was home and property of AC Milan. In 1947 Internazionale became tenants and the two have shared the ground ever since.
As well as being used by Milan and Inter, the Italian national team also plays occasional games there and it has also been used for the 2001, 1970 and 1965 UEFA Champions League finals. The stadium was also used for Internazionale's UEFA Cup finals when played over home and away legs but has never featured since the competition changed to a single final structure in 1997–98.
The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $60 million being spent, bringing the stadium up to UEFA category four standard. As part of the renovations, the stadium became all seated, with an extra tier being added to three sides of the stadium. This entailed the building of 11 concrete towers around the outside of the stadium. Four of these concrete towers located at the corner to support a new roof which has distinctive protruding red girders.
Inter is in the process of new stadium feasibility studies.
The first Rugby Union international at the San Siro took place when Italy played New Zealand national rugby union team in the 2009 end of year rugby tests.