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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ITALY.......................... pg.2

› A bit of history

› Other information

› Weather

› Food

LOMBARDY............................ pg.13

LOMBARDY IN 10 DISHES.... pg.15

CITY OF MILANO.................. pg.17

› General information

› Airports and how to reach the city

› Public transportation

› How to get a SIM card

› Sights

• The last supper

• Duomo

• Museo del Novecento

• Museo Poldi Pezzoli

• Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia

• Pinacoteca di Brera

• Castello Sforzesco

• Hangar Bicocca

• Villa Necchi

• Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa

• Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio

SHOPPING.............................pg.28

RESTAURANTS AND WHERE TO EAT IN MILANO.................... pg.32

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES.... pg.33

About graphic design

› About design

› About fashion design

› About theatre design

› About media design

› About visual arts

USEFUL INFORMATION ..... pg.55 Bureaucratic issues

› Fiscal code

› Permit to stay

› Health

› Bank account

› M-Id Card

EMERGENCIES NUMBERS.. pg.61

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About this guide

So you just landed in Italy or maybe not

and you’re packing everything and you’re

about to arrive.

We trust you’ll enjoy this reading and we

wish that this guide will help you during

your staying in our amazing country

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A BIT OF HISTORY

The Italian peninsula shows evi-dence of habitation by anatomi-cally modern humans beginning about 43,000 years ago. It is reached by the Neolithic as ear-ly as 6000 BC (Cardium Pottery in Coppa Nevigata). The Italian Bronze Age begins around 1500 BC, likely corresponding to the arrival of Indo-European speakers whose descendants would be-come theItalic peoples of the Iron Age; alongside the early Italic cul-tures, however, the Etruscan civi-lization in central Italy and Greek colonies in the south flourished during 8th to 5th centuries BC.

Among the Italic peoples, the Latins, originally situated in the Latium region, and their Latin lan-guage would come to dominate the peninsula with the Roman conquest of Italy in the 3rd cen-tury BC. The Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire dominat-ed Italy for many centuries, and

furthermore established the cul-ture and civilization of Western Europe in general, including the

adoption and subsequent spread of Christianity as state religion at the end of the 4th century.

The decline and collapse of the Western Empire by the end of the 5th century is taken to mark the end of Late Antiquity. A Lombard Kingdom of Italy was established, although parts of the peninsula remained under Byzantine rule and influence until the 11th cen-tury. The Lombard kingdom was incorporated into Francia and ul-timately the Holy Roman Empire, although the rise of city-states, and especially the powerful mari-time republics in the medieval pe-riod led to political fragmentation. Ultimately, after the disastrous Italian Wars, the peninsula was divided among the great powers of Early Modern Europe, Spain and Austria, and later fell to the French Empire under Napoleon I, the Papal States being reduced to the control of the Holy See over Rome.

With the rise of nationalism and the idea of the nation state in the 19th century, the peninsula was

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unified in the late 19th century. The new Kingdom of Italy, estab-lished in 1861, quickly modernized and built a large colonial empire, colonizing parts of Africa, and countries along the Mediterrane-an. However, many regions of the young nation (notably, the South) remained rural and poor, originat-ing the Italian diaspora. Part of the victorious allied powers of World War I, Italy defeated its historical enemy, the Austrian Empire. Soon afterwards, however, the liberal state collapsed to social unrest: the Fascists, led by Benito Mus-solini, took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axis powers inWorld War II, falling into a bloody Civil War in 1943, with the Fascist fac-tion finally defeated in the spring of 1945.

In 1946, as a result of a Constitu-tional Referendum, the monarchy was abolished.[1] The new re-public was proclaimed on 2 June 1946. In the 1950s and 1960s, Italy saw a period of rapid moderni-zation and sustained economic growth, the so-called Italian eco-nomic miracle. The country, com-ing back to international politics among Western democratic pow-ers, joined the European Econom-

ic Community (which has later constituted the European Union), the United Nations, NATO, the G7 and the Organisation for Eco-nomic Co-operation and Develop-ment. Italy is currently ranked as a major European power

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OTHER INFORMATION:

FORMATION:

• Unification:17 March 1861

• Republic: 2 June 1946

• Founded the EEC(now the European Union): 1 January 1958

AREA:

• Total: 301,338 km2 (72nd) - 116,347 sq mi

• Water (%): 2.4

POPULATION:

• 2013 estimate: 60,782,668[1] (23rd)

• 2011 census: 59,433,744[2] (23rd)

• Density: 201.7/km2 (63rd) - 522.4/sq mi

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CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY:

ROME 41°54’N 12°29’E

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES : Italiana

DEMONYM: Italian

GOVERNMENT: Unitary parliamentary

constitutional republic

PRESIDENT: Sergio Mattarella

PRIME MINISTER: Matteo Renzi

LEGISLATURE: Parliament

UPPER HOUSE: Senate

LOWER HOUSE: Chamber of Deputies

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The climate in Italy is highly diverse

and can be far from the stereotypical

Mediterranean climate depending

on the location. Most of the inland

northern areas of Italy, for example

Turin, Milan and Bologna, have a

continental climate classified as

humid subtropical. The coastal areas

of Liguria and most of the peninsula

south of Florence generally fit the

Mediterranean stereotype. The coastal

areas of the peninsula can be very

different from the interior higher

altitudes and valleys, particularly

during the winter months when the

higher altitudes tend to be cold,

wet, and often snowy. The coastal

regions have mild winters and warm

and generally dry summers, although

lowland valleys can be quite hot in

summer.

Here is the list of the most famous Italian dishes split by regions.

Please, try to taste as many as you can!!

CUCINA ABRUZZESE

• Agnello cacio e ova

slow cooked lamb with rosemary,

garlic and eggs

• Arrosticini

sheep meet cooked on a stick.

• I soffioni Abruzzesi

Small cake filled with cream and

sheep ricotta cheese

CUCINA LUCANA

• Acquasale

Soup with onion, bread eggs and

ricotta cheese

• Orecchiette alla lucana

Typical ear shape pasta with veal

and tomato sauce

• Taralli

Crunchy ring shape snack/

appetizer made with no yeast

bread dough

CUCINA CALABRESE

• Le Frittole

Traditional dish/soup prepared by

cooking pork rind, pork meat and

other less noble parts of the pig

• Polpette di melanzane

Deep fried eggplant meatballs

• Mostaccioli

Honey crunchy cookies

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CUCINA CAMPANA

• Caprese

Simple salad made with sliced

fresh mozzarella cheese, tomatoes

and basil

• Pizzelle fritte

Smalls deep fried pizza with

marinara sauce and cheese

• Pastiera

Easter short crust pastry cake with

ricotta cheese and candied fruits

CUCINA EMILIANA

• Lasagne Alla Bolognese

Made by interleaving layers

of pasta with layers of sauce,

made with ragù, bechamel, and

Parmigiano-Reggiano

• Gnocco Fritto

Fried dough parcels served with

cold cuts and cheese

• Crescioni

Stuffed flatbread

CUCINA OF FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA

• Frico con patate e cipolle

Grated potatoes cooked in a pan

with onion and montasio cheese

• Scampi alla busara

Scampi soup with tomatoes garlic

and chilly

• Fave triestine

Small ball shape sweets made with

almonds

CUCINA LAZIALE

• Abbacchio alla scottadito

Grilled lamb ribs

• Gnocchi alla romana

Small rounded semolina discs

grated in oven with cheese and

butter

• Soft and yummy sweet buns

enriched with orange peel raisins

pine nut and whipped cream

CUCINA LIGURE

• Focaccia

Famous flat oven-baked oily and

salty bread which is now presided

over by Slow Food

• Trofie al Pesto Patate e Fagiolini

Twisted shape short pasta with

pesto sauce, potatoes and green

beans

• Canestrelli

Delicious crumbly cookies

sprinkled with powdered sugar

CUCINA MARCHIGIANA

• Olive all’ascolana

Deep fried olives stuffed with meat

• Brodetto fanese

Traditionally poor dish, is a fish

soup served with crispy toasted

sliced bread

• Cicerchiata

Desert made by fried small dough

balls and covered with honey

CUCINA MOLISANA

• Fascadielle

Particular polenta served with

meat sauce, tuna and cheese

• Trippa alla molisana

A main course with pork stomach

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with natural seasoning and dried

to be served crunchy

• Caggiunitti

fried ravioli stuffed with chestnut,

almonds and candied fruits

CUCINA PIEMONTESE

• Bagna Caod

A sauce made with anchovies,

olive oil and garlic. It’s used to

soak typical fall veggies

• Vitello Tonnato

Sliced veal covered with tuna

flavor mayo

• Baci di dama

Aka lady kisses because of their

shape which reminds two kissing-

lips

• Italian hazelnut sandwich

cookies

CUCINA PUGLIESE

• Orecchiette con le cime di rapa

Typical ear-shape hanmade pasta

with turnip tops, olive oil, garlic

and anchovies

• Bombette pugliesi

Meat roll made with thin beff

steak filled with pancetta and

caciocavallo cheese

• Cartellate

Dessert made with a rose-shape

puff pastry soak in cooked wine

CUCINA SARDA

• Spaghetti con la bottarga

Salted Tuna eggs grated on

spaghetti

• Panadas

Dumpling filled with meat, fish or

veggie

• Small cake filled with cheese and

covered with honey and sugar

CUCINA SICILIANA

• Arancini di Riso

Deep fried saffron rice ball with

typical pear shape

• Pasta alla norma

Pasta with fried eggplant and salty

ricotta cheese

• Cannoli siciliani

Crisp, sweet crunchy tubes which

are filled with a cream or ricotta

cheese filling

CUCINA TOSCANA

• Panzanella

Fresh Salad with Tuscany bread,

onion, tomatoes, cucumber and

basil

• Tiramisù

It is made of ladyfingers dipped in

coffee, layered with mascarpone

cheese cream, flavored with coco

• Pappa al Pomodoro

Tomatoes and Tuscany bread soup

CUCINA OF TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE

• Canederli

Big Meat Dumplings

• Spätzle di spinaci

noodles made from a batter

poured through a coarse colander

into boiling water

• Strudel di mele

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• oblong strudel pastry jacket with

an apple filling inside

CUCINA MARCHIGIANA

• Olive all’ascolana

Deep fried olives stuffed with meat

• Brodetto fanese

Traditionally poor dish, is a fish

soup served with crispy toasted

sliced bread

• Cicerchiata

Desert made by fried small dough

balls and covered with honey

CUCINA PIEMONTESE

• Bagna Caod

A sauce made with anchovies,

olive oil and garlic. It’s used to

soak typical fall veggies

• Vitello Tonnato

Sliced veal covered with tuna

flavor mayo

• Baci di dama

Aka lady kisses because of their

shape which reminds two kissing-

lips

• Italian hazelnut sandwich

cookies

CUCINA SICILIANA

• Arancini di Riso

Deep fried saffron rice ball with

typical pear shape

• Pasta alla norma

Pasta with fried eggplant and salty

ricotta cheese

• Cannoli siciliani

Crisp, sweet crunchy tubes which

are filled with a cream or ricotta

cheese filling

CUCINA UMBRA

• Strangozzi al tartufo

Typical homemade pasta usually

cooked with Norcia black truffles

sauce

• Crostini di fegatini di pollo

Slices of homemade bread

covered by chicken livers dough

• Panpepato

Typical Christmas “bread” made

by cocoa dough enriched with

nuts, walnuts, almonds, honey,

sugar, cinnamon and black pepper

CUCINA VALDOSTANA

• Costolette alla Valdostana

Veal steak stuffed with ham

and fontina cheese, coated in

breadcrumbs and deep fried

• Chnéffléné

Boiled batter morsels

• Tegole dolci

Yummy and crunchy wafer

CUCINA VENETA

• Baccalà alla Vicentina

Dried salt cod slowly simmered in

milk, usually severd with polenta

on side

• Fegato alla Veneziana

sliced liver with gently stewed

onions and vinegar

• Pandoro

traditional Italian sweet yeast

bread typically served during the

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christmas time.

Strudel di mele

Olive all’ascolana

Arancini di riso

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Lombardy - Lombardia [lombar’di:a] is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy in the north-west of the country with an area of 23,844 square kilometers.

About 10 million people, or a sixth of

Italy's population, lives in Lombardy.

Milan, Lombardy's capital, is the sec-

ond-largest city and the largest met-

ropolitan area in Italy. Lombardy is

bordered by Switzerland and by the

Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adi-

ge/Südtirol and Veneto (east), Emil-

ia-Romagna (south), and Piedmont

(west). Three distinct natural zones

can be fairly easily distinguished in

the Lombardy region: mountains, hills

and plains – the latter being divided

in Alta (high plains) and Bassa (low

plains).

The most important mountainous

area is an Alpine zone including the

Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps, the

Bergamo Alps, the Ortler Alps and

the Adamello massif; it is followed by

an Alpine foothills zone Prealpi, which

include the main peaks are the Grigna

Group, Resegone and Presolana.

The great Lombard lakes, all of gla-

cial origin, lie in this zone. From west

to east these are Lake Maggiore, Lake

Lugano (both shared with Switzer-

land), Lake Como, Lake Iseo, Lake

Idro, then Lake Garda, the largest in

Italy. Lombardy counts many protect-

ed areas: the most important are the

Stelvio National Park (the largest Ital-

ian natural park), with

Lombardy

Ticino Valley Natural Park

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typically alpine wildlife: red deer, roe

deer, ibex, chamois, foxes, ermine and

also golden eagles; and the Ticino

Valley Natural Park, instituted in 1974

on the Lombard side of the Ticino Riv-

er to protect and conserve one of the

last major examples of fluvial forest

in Northern Italy. Sprawled between

the Alps and the river Po's plains,

Lombardy (Lombardia) has one of

Italy's most varied landscapes. Indus-

trious cities, medieval hill towns and

lakeside resorts are interspersed with

powdered slopes, lemon groves, crop

fields, vineyards and rice paddies.

But one element defines this di-

verse region: style, in Milan's "Golden

Quad" (Quadrilatero d'Oro). Spar-

kling lakes are strung along the north

of the region like a necklace and are

the real jewels. Yet despite the lakes'

beauty, many areas remaine almost

untouched by tourism. South of the

main chain of lakes, history-steeped

cities include medieval Bergamo, Ro-

man Brescia; the age-old violin-mak-

ing centre of Cremona; and the Re-

naissance city of Mantua (Mantova).

Fresh lake fish grace Lombardy's

tables, along with "risotto"and "po-

lenta" from the plains; Alpine butter,

cream and cheese; and celebrated

wines such as dry Valtellina reds and

fizzy Franciacorta, produced.using

the same double-fermentation meth-

od as Champagne.

A views of Stelvio Natural Park

Centre of Cremona

Centre of Mantua

Franciacorta Outlet with traditional products

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1. risotto aLLa miLanese

is one of the most famous dishes in

Italy. To cook it, good saffron is not

enough. Every cook has is own recipe

and his own secrets but few ingredi-

ents cannot miss to respect the tra-

ditions, lot of butter and ox marrow

sauteed. Lot of people love to serve

the Yellow Risotto with ossobuco on

side.

2. CotoLetta aLLa miLanese

Ok guys we are not joking anymore.

It’s time to fry. Breaded T-bone veal

steak fried in butter. the size could be

huge depending on the chef. If so, it’s

called ELEPHANT EAR. We let you

imagine how big is.

3. pizzoCCheri

Not so far from Milano, in the moun-

tainous Valtellina area, the queen of

the table is the buckwheat flour wich

is used to cook pizzoccheri! Short

tagliatelle with potatoes, savoy cab-

bage and a lot of butter and Valtellina

Casera cheese.

4. poLenta taragna

Also cooked with buckwheat flour, his

name comes from TAREL, the wood

spoon used to cook it.

Cheese is added when polenta is

cooked and it gives an incredible

taste. Polenta is good as main dish or

as side dish too. It can be served with

pork meat, sausages or cold cuts. If

too much polenta has been cooked

and you cant keep eating, just save it

for the day after, slice it and fry it for

few minutes.

5. CasonCeLLi

if you are close to Bergamo or Bres-

cia, don’t miss the opportunity to

taste the homemade casoncelli. Small

bittersweet ravioli filled with roast-

ed meat, sausages, raisins and pears.

Seasoned only with butter, cheese

and pancetta. If you want to try the

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lighter version –you should not- you

can try the boiled casoncelli.

6. torteLLi mantovani

The bittersweet taste comes from the

end of the middle-age and so does

the Tortelli mantovani. Typical fall

dish, their pumpkin and amaretto bis-

cuits filling is perfect for a break dur-

ing the september literature festival

or after a visit of the “Palazzo Ducale

di Mantova” and his amazing frescos.

7. boLLito Con La mostarda

For those who want to keep staying

on the same bittersweet taste, the

“bollito con la mostarda” is mandato-

ry. The mostarda is usually prepared

at the end of the summer with sea-

son fruits as figs, pears, peaches and

cherries. The mustard gives to the

mostarda a spicy shade. Beyond the

several boiled meet cuts, the mostar-

da is good also with cheese and cold

cuts.

8. gorgonzoLa

Blue cheese doesnt need any side

dish but it can still be served also with

bread, as season for pasta or for ri-

sotto. The most common kinds of

gorgonzola are spicy or sweet even

though in some small shop you can

find the champagne version.

9. CassoeuLa

Please make a note: Only for brave

stomachs. Is the winter quintessential.

Traditionally made with pork scraps -

pork feet, tail, ears and skin- and sa-

voy cabbage, common in Lombardy.

Once everything is boiled for few

hours, comes out a perfect dish for

the cold and foggy milanese winter.

10. iL panettone

Here is the king of the christmas lom-

bardy table. The one and only PAN-

ETTONE. Forget about industrial pan-

ettone with fake candied fruit. Even

if the panettone reigns in the christ-

mas time, the best bakeries slow bake

panettone the whole year

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CITY OF MILANO Lombardy’s capital, Milan, is the country’s Fashion and finance powerhouse, and

it is the second largest metropolis after Rome.

The empires of Armani, Prada, Gucci and dozens of others reside in Milan’s

“Golden Quad” (Quadrilatero d’Oro).

Crisscrossing the city are Milan’s five underground metro lines, and an extensive

network of buses and trams.

Milan’s catwalkflat terrain, however, makes it easy to cover the centre. Central

Milan is a spiderweb of streets radiating from the city’s geographical and spiritual

heart, the Duomo (Cathedral). Immediately north of the Duomo is the Quadrilat-

ero d’Oro (Golden Quad), Milan’s designer shopping precinct. Northwest is the

gentrified, former bohemian quarter of Brera, with narrow cobblestone streets,

upmarket antique shops and alfresco cafés. The city’s more fashion nightlife is

on and around Corso Como, further northwest. Northeast of the Duomo is the

Stazione Centrale (Central Train Station; though it’s not quite as central its name

suggests). To the Duomo’s south lies the Navigli canal district.

West of the Duomo there is the Castello Sforzesco and Parco Sempione.

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1. MILANO MALPENSA

By Bus: Taking the bus is the easi-est way even if longer.

Here’s what you have to do: first of all you have to reach the Terminal 1, if you are at Terminal 2 there is a bus in front of the Arriv-al exit which takes you to Terminal 1 for free.

Ok, now you are at the Termi-nal 1 so, you can go to the arriv-al floor and buy the ticket (10€ one way) there, or you can even buy the tickets on board. Now that you have the ticket, where to go to?” easy, go outside and just wait for your bus. The length of the trip is about 50’. Jump down at Stazione Centrale - Main Railway Station – wich is the last stop.

By Train:

When you arrive at the airport go to Terminal 1 if you’re not already there. There is a bus in front of the Arrival exit which takes you from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 for

free.

Now from Terminal 1, reach the railway station and take a train called “Malpensa Express” to-wards “Milano Centrale”.

The ticket of the train costs 10 € for one way, best if bought before boarding the train and remember to stamp it before getting on the train.

2. ORIO AL SERIO

From this airport you can reach the Stazione Centrale only by bus.

You can buy the ticket just out-side the protected area and also in the bus, it is the same price.

The trip takes approximately one hour.

You’ll get off on one side of the station, just walk a bit following the side of the station and reach the metro.

3. LINATE

From here it is very easy. Take your luggage, go to the arrival floor buy a single (1,50€) ticket of

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ATM (public transports) and take the bus line 73 to San Babila (corner with Corso Europa).

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Milan’s public transportation system connects across the city center, mak-ing it easy to get around the city’s most popular attractions.

Opting for public transportation is a great “green” way to travel. It’ll also save you lots of time and money (if you don’t take cabs, you can avoid traf-fic and dropping lots of cash)… which means more to spend on shopping! Milan’s public transportation includes the subway, bus and tram.

Here is a map:

URBAN TICKET

Price: € 1.50 Validity: 90 minutes after stamping. Valid for a single journey.

CARNET OF 10 STANDARD TICKETS Price: € 13.80 Validity: 10 journeys 90 minutes each after stamping. Each ticket is valid for a single journey, it may not be used

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simultaneously by more than one passenger.

BI4 4-JOURNEY INTEGRATED TICKET Price: € 6.00 Validity: 4 journeys of 90 minutes each after stamping.

Each journey may include a single journey. On ATM routes only, on Sundays and public holidays this ticket is valid for an unlimited number of journeys up to 1 pm if stamped before this time; on evenings until the end of service the ticket is valid for an unlimited number of journeys if stamped after 8 pm.

ONE DAY TICKET Price: € 4.50 Validity: 24 hours after stamping.

TWO DAY TICKET Price: € 8.25 Validity: 48 hours after stamping.

WEEKLY 2X6 PASS Price: € 10.00 Validity: two 90 minutes a day for 6 days of the same week. Each journey may include a single journey. The ticket may also be used on Sundays if both journeys for a single day of the week remain unused.

EVENING TICKET Price: € 3.00 Validity: from 8 pm until the end of service on the day of stamping. The ticket is valid for unlimited travels on the urban adn extra urban ATM network.

STUDENT TRAVEL CARD

Are you a student who uses public transport to travel to university?

Yes you are so ATM public transportation gives you the opportunity to travel with no limits for one month.

The pass costs 22€/month and to get it is easy. You have to go to Romolo Metro station and ask for the student monthly pass form. Sorry they are enumerated and the ATM points are the only places where you can get them. Once you filled the form, submit it to the ATM and they’ll give you back the pass.

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WHAT ABOUT IF I WANT TO RIDE A BIKE?

The ATM Milano public transportation offers also a bike sharing

service. You can easily choose between an annual, monthly or daily

subscription.

To signup just go to one of the ATM Point to get the form

Here below a list of the ATM Points in Milano:

› Duomo (M1-M3)

› Cadorna (M1-M2)

› Loreto (M1-M2)

› Romolo (M2)

› Centrale FS (M2-M3)

› Garibaldi FS (M2)

HOW TO GET A SIM CARD In Milan you can find several phone shops usually branded according to the network provider.

There are four major network operators in Italy, as well as several network sellers.

Here is the list of major ones, please, check out their rates and don’t for-get that to obtain a SIM card the Fiscal Code is mandatory. You can take a look at the bureaucratic issues chapter to understand how to get your Fiscal code.

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the Last supper

The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Je-sus shared with his Apostles in Je-rusalem before his crucifixion.The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday. Moreover, the Last Sup-per provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”.

duomo

Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano; Lombard: Domm de Milan) is the cathedral church of Milan, Italy. Dedicated to St Mary of the Nativity (Santa Maria Nascente), it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Angelo Scola. The Gothic cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete. It is the 5th-largest church in the world and the largest in Italy.

museo deL noveCento

Is a museum of modern and con-temporary art in Milan, in Lom-bardy in nothern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell’Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre

of the city.The museum opened in December 2010, and holds one of the largest collections in Italy of

Museo del Novecento

Duomo, Milan Cathedral

The Last Supper

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Italian and international twenti-eth-century art.

There are sections dedicated to Futurism, to Spatialism and to Arte Povera.The museum has works by Italian artists includ-ing Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Umberto Boccioni, Gi-acomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Lucio Fontana, Salvatore Garau, Giorgio Morandi and Mario Sironi, and by international artists such as Pab-lo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse.The museum has a bookshop, and a restaurant-bar on the top floor, overlooking Piazza del Duomo.

museo poLdi pezzoLi

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12. The museum was originated in the 19th century as private collection of Gian Giaco-

mo Poldi Pezzoli (1822–1879) and his mother, Rosa Trivulzio, of the family of the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Many of the rooms in the palace were redec-orated starting in 1846, a commis-sions entrusted to Luigi Scrosati and Giuseppe Bertini. Individual rooms were often decorated and furnished to match the paintings hung on the walls. The architect Simone Cantoni (1736–1818) re-built the palace in its present Neoclassical style with an Eng-lish-style interior garden. In 1850–

1853, Poldi Pezzoli commissioned the architect Giuseppe Balzaretto to refurbish his apartment. Poldi Pezzoli in his testament left the house and contents to the Brera Academy. Giuseppe Bertini, direc-tor of the Academy, opened the museum on April 25, 1881. During World War II, the palace suffered grave damage, but the artworks had been placed in safe storage. The museum was reopened in 1951 after reconstruction.The museum is notable for its broad collection of Northern Italian and (for Ita-ly) Netherlandish/Flemish artists. The exhibition includes weaponry, glassworks, ceramics, jewelry, and furnishings.

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museo nazionaLe deLLa sCienza e deLLa teCnoLogia

The Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” is the largest science and tech-nology museum in Italy, and is dedicated to Italian painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. It was opened on 5 February 1953, inaugurated by prime minister of Italy, Alcide De Gasperi. This mu-seum, in the ancient monastery of San Vittore al Corpo of Milan, is divided in seven main depart-ments: Materials, Transport, Ener-gy, Communication, Leonardo da Vinci, Art & Science, New Fron-tiers, Science for young people. All this departments have also some laboratories especially for children and young students. The Transport section in made by four different parts: air, rail, water and Submarine.

pinaCoteCa di brera

The Pinacoteca di Brera (“Bre-ra Art Gallery”) is the main pub-lic gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the fore-most collections of Italian paint-ings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Pala-zzo Brera.

CasteLLo sforzesCo

Sforza Castle (Italian: Castel-lo Sforzesco) is a castle in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza-Duke of Milan, on the remains of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was one of the largest citadels in Europe. Extensively rebuilt by Luca Bel-trami in 1891–1905, it now houses several of the city’s museums and art collections.

Castello Sforzesco

Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica

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hangar biCoCCa

Bicocca is a district (“quartiere”) of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 9 administrative division. It was in-corporated in the city in 1841. The main historic landmark of the dis-trict is the 15th century Villa Ar-cimboldi. In the last decades of the 20th century, the district has been subject to a major requalifi-cation project that led to the con-struction of important facilities such as the University of Milan Bi-cocca seats and the Teatro degli Arcimboldi theatre.

viLLa neCChi

The residential complex on Via Mozart was designed in the ear-ly 1930s by the Milanese archi-tect Piero Portaluppi for Angelo Campiglio, his wife Gigina Necchi and her sister Nedda, typical fig-ures in the upper middle class of the Lombardy region. In addition to the villa itself and its grounds, the luxurious residential complex designed by Portaluppi down to the smallest detail in complete architectural freedom include the porter’s lodge, conservatory, ga-rages, swimming pool and tennis court. What makes the Villa Nec-chi Campiglio so extraordinary in the history of Lombard archi-tecture is above all the coherent harmony established between the exterior of the building, the archi-tectural elements of the garden and even the smallest decorative details of the interior, from the mouldings of the ceilings to the gate of the tennis courts and the radiator covers. The house on Via Mozart still bears faithful witness to this privileged lifestyle both in its intact architectural struc-ture and in the history of its fur-nishings, collections and utensils, which have been handed down over the generations unchanged Hangar Bicocca

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and are extraordinarily well pre-served. Two important donations make a visit still more rewarding, namely Claudia Gian Ferrari’s collection of early 20th-century works of art and the collection of 18th-century paintings and deco-rative art of Alighiero and Emili-etta de’ Micheli. The quantity and quality of the works of art in the Villa Necchi Campiglio make it an authentic museum of decorative art. We refer in particular to the outstanding Louis XV furniture, 19th-century English silverware, Brussels tapestries and numerous objects of Eastern art in bronze and porcelain. Everything in the house today has remained as its owners wished and left it. Along-side the architectural structures and furnishings, the objects of everyday use play a very impor-tant part in preserving the do-mestic atmosphere intact almost seventy years on.

santa maria annunCiata in Chiesa rossa

The name “Chiesa Rossa” de-rived from the old church of “Santa Maria” near the “Naviglio Pavese” canal called also “Santa Maria ad Fonticulum”.The con-struction started by Franco Del-la Porta in Romanesque Revival style, and was completed in 1932 by Giovanni Muzio. The facade was built in the 1960.A consecra-tion plaque near main entrance remembers that Cardinal Al-fredo Ildefonso Schuster, Arch-bishop of Milan, consecrated the church on December 21st 1932. Muzio has designed the church in plan as Latin cross; the central nave is covered by Barrel vault and ends in the Apse. The Baptis-tery, in the left in a lateral chapel, has an octagonal shape and con-tains “San Giovannino” a sculpture by Giacomo Manzù.From 1996 the church hosts “Untitled”, the last installation of Dan Flavin. The design was completed two days before Flavin’s death on Novem-ber 26, 1996 and installed a year later. The installation is made with green and blue neon lights for the main nave, red in the transept and yellow for the apse.

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Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio

Central aisle of Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio

Chiesa Rossa

basiLiCa di sant’ambrogio

Early Christian Basilica (4th cen-tury) The Basilica of St. Ambro-se was begun by Bishop Am-brose himself around 385 and consecrated in 386. The church was built on a grand scale over an existing cemetery, next to the martyrium of St. Victor. Two local martyrs provided the necessary relics for the altar, and Ambrose was buried next to them after his death on April 4, 397. The original basilica has been excavated be-neath the existing building. Sur-viving foundations indicate it had two side aisles, a marble floor, a semicircular apse, and a four-col-umned baldacchino over the high altar. The west facade has not been located so the exact length of the nave is unknown, but it had at least 13 bays. It almost certain-ly had a large west porch on the same foundations as the present one. If so, it was a huge complex of more than 300 Roman feet long and 100 feet wide, larger than contemporary basilicas in Rome.

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Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga and Via Sant’Andrea, ele-gant streets that together with Via Manzoni, Via Borgospesso and Via Santo Spirito are the out-er limits of the famous Fashion Quadrilatero. This area conatins the most prestigious boutiques and showrooms in the world, full of minimalist design and high tech, and provide a triumph of consumer stimulus that only a select few can respond to. In this square area, which is really ex-tremely expensive, luxury is the true protagonist. Dazzling jewels created by the most famous name,

clothes and accessories to die for, to be owned and flaunted, shoes that are works of art. Everything reeks of ostentation and the splendor of a chic, fashionable lifestyle. Many foreign tourists come to the showrooms and come out full of parcels, because Italian fashion continues to at-tract and fascinate the whole world, and Milan is the most rep-resentative symbol of all this.

Let’s start from the most famous of all the streets of fashion: Via Montenapoleone. This is where

shopping

Milano is, with no doubt, one of the capitals of fashion, which means only one thing: SHOPPING

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you can find, amongst others, the atelier-showrooms of: Guc-ci, Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo, Fratelli Rossetti, Etro, Loro Pia-na, Luis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Cartier and Tanino Crisci. In Via Sant’Andrea, a street that crosses Via Montenapoleone you can find: Chanel, Fendi, Armani, Moschino, Kenzo, Cesare Paciotti, Hermés, Prada and Trussardi. Via Sant’An-drea crosses the famous Via della Spiga, where you can enjoy the shop windows at: D&G, Krizia, Sergio Rossi, Gianfranco Ferré, Bottega Veneta, Tod’s, Genny, Prada, Bulgari and Chopard.

The equally elegant Via Manzo-ni is home to Spazio Armani at no. 31. This is the Giorgio Arma-ni multi-concept store where you can admire the Emporio Arma-ni showrooms, Armani casa, and Armani fiori. You can also sip an aperitif at the Emporio Armani Cafè, or spend an evening at the restaurant Nobu, with a dinner by the best Japanese chef to emerge in the last 10 years: Nobuyuki Mat-suhisa who opened this chain of restaurants together with Robert de Niro. For more affordable pur-chases, there are four important streets in the city that are almost entirely dedicated to shopping:

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Corso

Buenos Aires, Via Torino and Cor-so di Porta Ticinese. Corso Vit-torio Emanuele links Piazza Du-omo with Piazza San Babila, and begins with the Rinascente, the monument to Milanese shopping that owes its name to Gabriele d’Annunzio. In Corso Vittorio Emanuele there are sophisticat-ed label shops, such as Max Mara, Moreschi, Bruno Magli and Pollini, but there are also more popular labels such as H&M and Zara. Cor-so Buenos Aires, that is one of the longest streets in Europe, con-nects Porta Venezia to Piazzale Loreto, and is even more com-mercial: here you can find Timber-land, Mandarina Duck, Benetton, Kookai and Nara Camice.

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In Via Torino that stretches be-tween the Duomo and Corso di Porta Ticinese, the average shop-per’s age is much lower and he casual style is sportier, with Foot Looker, Camper and Energy shops all here.

The nearer you get to the Navigli area, which is the temple of street-style, the more the shop scenario changes. Corso di Porta Ticinese, a continuation of Via Torino that takes you right up to Piazza XXIV Maggio, is the right place for those “alternative” purchas-es: Custo-Barcellona, Diesel, Miss Sixteen, Gas and Fornarina stand alongside second-hand clothes shops, shops with bizarre objects for the home, handmade clothes and accessory stores made from silk and other precious materials.

Milan also has some interesting markets. Here are just two of the most interesting and characteris-tic: Fiera di Senigallia in Milan is now an institution: every Satur-day morning, Viale d’Annunzio, along the wharf, becomes a pic-turesque sight, full of noise, color and other smells so typical of flea markets.

You can find everything here: In-dian, South American and African craftwork; new and second-hand

clothes, old furniture, fake art nouveau lamps, perfumed can-dles and every kind of essence, books, comics, records, videos and DVDs. There are tidy stalls and messy ones where you can go looking for your bargain. The mu-sic of the Senegalese musicians is like a theme tune, as they pound on drums of all sizes, accompa-nying the people walking around with their frenetic rhythms.

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merCatone deL navigLio grande

This takes place along the Alzaia Naviglio Grande on the last Sun-day of each month. A large ex-hibition-market is set up that is dedicated to antiques: furniture, objects for the home, old books, jewelry, and lots more too. The market has 400 exhibitors, some of whom also have their own shops on the banks of the Nav-iglio grande.

Let’s end our itinerary of shop-ping with a mini-guide to the out-lets near Milan. One of the char-acteristics of Milan that shopping lovers like is the fact that there are many famous-label outlets in the city center that are usually only found on the city outskirts or in the provinces. Some of the ones in the center are: Diffusione Tes-sile, which is the Max Mara group’s outlet, the Bruno Magli and Etro outlets where you can find items from past collections and also Lu-ciano Soprani, Kookai, Valextra, a sophisticated suitcase compa-ny, and Bassetti, where you can buy all the bedding and linen you need for your house.

Near Milan instead, you can find the McArthur Glen Shopping City (Serravalle Scrivia, Alessandria),

the Fratelli Rossetti outlet (Para-biago), Dolce & Gabbana outlet (Legnano), Timberland outlet (Pero), Levi’s (Cernusco sul Nav-iglio) and Samsonite (Corsico) outlets, and finally Frette (Con-corezzo) and Zucchi (Casorezzo) for bed linen.

Naviglia area: Fiera di Senigallia and Navigli by night

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- Latteria di San Marco - TRATTORIA Via San Marco 24; meals €18-25; h 7-11pm Mon-Fri; M2 Moscova

- Trattoria da Pino - MILANESE Via Cerva 14; meals €20-25; h noon-3pm Mon-Sat; M1 San Babila

- Luini - PASTRIES & CAKES Via Santa Radegonda 16; panzerotti €2.50; h 10am-3pm Mon, to 8pm Tue-Sun; M1 Duomo

- Trattoria del Nuovo Macello - MILANESE Via Cesare Lombroso 20; meals €28-50; h noon-2.15pm & 8-10.30pm Mon-Fri, 8-10.30pm Sat

- Al Bacco - MILANESE Via Marcona 1; meals €25-30; h dinner Mon-Sat

- Dongiò - CALABRESE Via Bernardino Corio 3; meals €30-40; h noon-2.30pm & 7.30-11.30pm Mon-Fri, 7.30-11.30pm Sat; M3 Porta Romana

- Sushi Koboo - JAPANESE Viale Col di Lana 1; meals €20-35; h noon-2.30pm & 7.30-11.30pm Tue-Sun

- L’Antico Ristorante Boeucc – MILANESE Piazza Belgioioso 2; meals €60-80; h lunch &dinner Mon-Fri, lunch Sun; M1 Duomo

- Ristorante Da Giacomo SEAFOOD Via Pasquale Sottocorno 6; meals € 40-60

RESTAURANTS AND WHERE TO EAT IN MILANO

(SOURCE: LONELY PLANET AND TRIPADVISOR)

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suggested aCtivities

ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN

gaLLeria Campari Campary Galley, was born on March 23rd 2010.

The gallery is on two floors, on the first floor is described the history of the brand through the modern and the contemporary art, with works from international artists as Leonetto Cappiello, Bruno Mu-nari and Ugo Nespolo. The sec-ond floor is used for temporary expositionsVisit the gallery means travel through a multimedia and sensorial experience. That’s why some exposed works have been interpreted with mutimedia tech-nologies in order to feel them also with the sense of smell and hearing. With the opening of his amazing museum, Campari cele-brates his 150 years of history.

aiap - assoCiazione itaLiana design deLLa ComuniCazione

Aiap is an association, which take care of the visual arts like graphic, photography, digital and multime-dia arts. Beyond a dedicated library, AIAP organizes exhibition and comunications conferences

Libreria Corraini

Corraini Edizioni is a publishing house, an art gallery and a space for experimentation and research: an editorial workshop open to artists, illustrators and designers, italians or foreigners, a space to create books and arts and design projects. In between the numer-ous collaborations, stands out the one with Bruno Manari, versatile artist who has been worked with Corraini for many years spreading the idea of a lab always open to

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the creativity and to the fantasy.

iL museo deLLa stampa e stampa d’arte, Lodi

Launched in june 2008, is an ex-positive space with no particu-lar luxury but which chooses to keep the architectural features of an old renovated typography, where visitors will be able to be immersed and to breath the smell of the print history, a civilization history: from the wood and metal movable types to the computers

museo di fotografia Contemporanea

The unique Italian public muse-um dedicated to photography. Is facility active in the preserva-tion, cataloguing, study and di-vulgation of photography, with a

particular accent on the running technologies transformation and on the relation between the pho-tography and other expressive branches.

Falkland by Bruno Munari for Danese Milano, 1964

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Laboratori ansaLdo

The Teatro alla Scala labs, which were located in the areas of bovi-sa, Pero, Abanella and Piermarini, have been gathered, since febru-ary 20th 2001, at the ex industri-al establishment of the steel fac-tories Ansaldo in Milano. A huge 20000 square meters building divided in three pavillons dedicat-ed to director Luchino Visconti, to the scenographer Nicola Benois and to the costumer Luigi Sa-pelli (aka Caramba), able to host the majority of the handcrafted production of the scenic set up – scenography, sculpture, wood-working, workshop, set assem-bly, dressmaker, costume maker

and laundry. A space where, be-yond the safekeeping of more than 60000 costumes, there are practice rooms for the choir and a scene room for the direction practices pefectly corresponding to the Piermarini stage. A herit-age which exists thanks to the daily work of more than 150 op-erators who, just from a sketch, realize the whole scene’s set-up. With the goal

of a better sharing of this world of values, la Scala decided to open i Laboratori Ansaldo: an project articulated in guided visits where you can travel “behind the scene” of the Theatre and personally at-tend its new show’s birth

ABOUT THEATRE DESIGN

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museo teatraLe aLLa sCaLa

The Museo Teatrale alla Scala is a theatrical museum and library attached to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. Although it has a particular focus on the history of opera and of that opera house, its scope extends to Italian theatrical history in general, and includes displays relating, for example, to the commedia dell’arte and to the famous stage actress Eleonora Duse.The museum, which is ad-jacent to the opera house in the Piazza della Scala, was opened on 8 March 1913 and was based on a large private collection which had been purchased at auc-tion two years earlier, with funds raised both from government and private sources. The displays include costumes, set designs, autograph scores, and musical instruments of historical interest as well as paintings of musicians and actors, and a range of relat-ed paraphernalia including pre-cious ceramic figures portraying characters from the commedia dell’arte, and board games which used to be played in the theatre’s foyer. The Biblioteca Livia Simoni, the museum’s library, is situated at the II floor of the Museum. It was formed in 1952 with 40,000

volumes donated by author and Corriere della Sera critic Renato Simoni; it is named in honour of his mother. Today it holds some 140,000 works related to theatre history, opera and ballet including librettos, periodicals and the cor-respondence of musicians, actors and dancers, as well as books.

teatro aLLa sCaLa

La Scala (abbreviation in Italian language for the official name Teatro alla Scala) is an opera house in Milan, Italy. The thea-tre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre alla Scala (Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala). The premiere performance was Antonio Sali-eri’s Europa riconosciuta. Most of Italy’s greatest operatic art-ists, and many of the finest sing-ers from around the world, have appeared at La Scala during the past 200 years. Today, the thea-tre is still recognised as one of the

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leading opera and ballet theatres in the world and is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and La Scala The-atre Orchestra. The theatre also has an associate school, known as the La Scala Theatre Acade-my (Italian: Accademia Teatro alla Scala), which offers professional training in music, dance, stage-craft and stage management. piCCoLo teatro

The Piccolo Teatro della Città di Milano (translation: “Little Theatre of the City of Milan”) is a theatre in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1947, it is Italy’s first permanent thea-tre,and a national “teatro stabile”, or permanent repertory company, and is considered a theatre of ma-jor national and European impor-tance. The theatre has three ven-ues: Teatro Grassi, in Via Rovello, between Sforza Castle and the Piazza del Duomo; Teatro Studio, which was originally intended to be the theater’s rehearsal hall; and Teatro Strehler, which opened in 1998 with a seating capacity of 974. Its annual programme con-sists of approximately thirty per-formances. In addition, the venue hosts cultural events, from festi-vals and films, to concerts, confer-ences, and conventions, as well as

supporting the Paolo Grassi Dra-ma School.

Piccolo Teatro was founded by theatre impresario Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler, actor and director, along with Mario Apollo-nio, Virgilio Tosi and Nina Vinchi. According to Grassi, the founders were theatrical and political ide-alists that sought to “put forward theoretical principles and practi-cal standards of conduct radical-ly different from those which up until then had governed activity in Italy”. The Milan city council approved the transformation of Cinema Broletto into Piccolo Te-atro, to be managed directly by the City of Milan on 26 January 1947. The first performance, de-scribed as minimalist, took place four months later, on May 14, 1947, with L’albergo dei poveri (“Lower Depths”) by Maxim Gorky. Offer-

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ing affordable tickets and pro-ductions fraught with risk, Piccolo Teatro became renewed for “re-vitalizing popular interest in the classics of the Italian stage”. Its company became well known for its productions of Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Pirandello in particular, and of Bertold Brecht, Eugene O’ Neill, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Molière, Georg Büchner and Peter Weiss.In the 1960s, the Piccolo Te-atro was relocated to Teatro Lirico (Milan). In 1967, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the theatre put on a production of Goldoni’s Il servitore di due padroni. The theatre’s archives are currently maintained by the Archivio Multi-mediale del Piccolo Teatro di Mi-lano (AMPT). On the occasion of the theatre’s 60th anniversary in 2007, the President of Italy Gior-gio Napolitano granted the “Ente Autonomo Piccolo Teatro di Mi-lano-Teatro d’Europa” patronage for the entire duration of his sev-en-year presidential term. As of 2012, it is under the direction of Sergio Escobar, along with artistic director Luca Ronconi.

Casa - museo aChiLLe CastigLioni

Born in Milan February 16th 1918, From 1940, he dedicates to exper-imenting over industrial products together with his brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo.After graduat-ing in Architecture, gives life to a research activity after forms, tech-niques and new materials, tend-ing the achievement of a com-plete design process. From 1945 to 1962, performs the design ac-tivity along with the brother Pier Giacomo in the studio at C.so di Porta Nuova 57, which in 1962 be-cause of the building demolition, is transferred to P.zza Castello 27 where the collaboration with Pier Giacomo continues until his death in 1968, from 1968 to 2002, year of Achille’s death, continues the ac-tivity always in the studio at P.zza Castello alone. Achieves at the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzi-one (Ministry of Public Education) in 1969 the teaching qualification in “Artistic Design for Industry” and acquires the teaching post at the Turin Architecture Univer-sity until 1980 and afterwards at Milan until 1993 as fulltime “In-

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dustrial Design” professor.Acted from 1950 to actual days exper-iment and research in the imple-mentation of exhibition dressings (Triennale di Milano, Montecatini, Agip, Rai).In 1956 becomes one of the ADI founders. Fourteen of his pieces are presented at the New York MoMA.Other pieces are presented by the following muse-ums: Victoria and Albert Musum, London; Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich; Staatliches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Monaco; Mu-seo del Design, Prato; Umelecko-prumyslove Museo, Prague; Isra-el Museum di Gerusalemme; The Denver Art Museum; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Age-wandte Kunst Museum, Hamburg and Colonia.He has been award-ed with nine Compasso D’Oro: – Compasso d’Oro 1955 (Luminator lamp) – Compasso d’Oro 1960 (T 12 Palini chair) – Compasso d’Oro 1962 (Pitagora coffee machine) – Compasso d’Oro 1964 (Spinamat-ic beer spigot) – Compasso d’Oro 1967 (headphones for simultane-ous translation) – Compasso d’Oro 1979 (Parentesi lamp)– Compasso d’Oro 1979 (Omsa hospital bed / gurney) – Compasso d’Oro 1984 (Dry cutlery set)– Compasso d’Oro 1989 (special mention for design dedicated professions)

with the following motivation: “for raising Design, through his inval-uable experience, to the highest cultural values”.

Between 1984 and 1986, a person-al exhibition is organized by the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst of Vienna, the Akademie der Kunst of Berlin, the Triennale of Milan, the Kunstgewerbe Museum of Zu-rich, the Haags Gemeentemuse-um of Aia, Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Centre Georges Pom-pidou of Paris.In 1985, becomes an Honorary Member of the “Pas-adena Art Center College of De-

Parentesi, (Compasso d’Oro 1979) by Achille Castiglioni at Triennale Design Museum di Milano.

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sign” in California and Montreaux in Switzerland.In 1986, becomes an Honorary Member of the “Fac-ulty of Royal Designers for Indus-try”, London Royal Society of Art.In 1987, receives the Laurea Hon-oris Causa of the London Royal College of Art.In 1993, receives the “London Chartered Society of Design” annual award. In 1994, receives the “Primavera del De-sign” from the Cultural Institute of Cataluña.In 1995, receives the “Art sur Table” award from the Conseil National des Art Culinaire of Paris.In 1996, receives the “IF Design” Wettbewerb from the Hannover Industrie Forum Design.In 1996, receives the “Longevity-Lanlebig-keit” award from Stoccarda De-sign Center.In 1999, receives the “Domus/INARCH 1998”profes-sional award from INARCH.In 1999 receives the “Targa d’Oro Unione Italiana per il Disegno” from the Geneva University of Architec-ture.In 1999, wins the “Sostegni per l’Ambiente” competition, to-gether with the architect Michele de Lucchi.In 2001, receives the Laurea Honoris Causa in Industrial Design from the Politecnico di Mi-lano. Personal exhibitions:In 1995, for the “Primavera del Design” award, a personal exhibition “A la Castiglione” is organized in Barce-

lona.In 1997 at the Salone Interna-zionale del Mobile in Milan (April) and in the Galleria d’Arte Moder-na e Contemporanea in Bergamo (July).In 1997 at the Weil am Rhein at Vitra Design Museum (January) and at the New York MoMa Mu-seum of Modern Art (October).In 1998 at the Tokyo Living Design Center Ozone (March), Niitsu Art Museum (June) and De Beyerd di Breda Museum (October).There are many objects signed by him and products of great companies such as:Aerotecnica Italiana, Ales-si, Brionvega, Bernini B&B Italia, BBB Bonacina, Cimbali, Danese, Driade, De Padova, Flos, Fusital, Cassina, Ideal Standard, Italtel, IlCoccio Umidificatori, Interflex, Lancia Auto, Marcatrè, Moro-so, Olivetti, Omsa, Phonola Ra-dio, Poggi, Phoebus Alter, Perani Fonderie, Rem, San Giorgio elet-trod., Teorema, Knoll Internation-al, Kartell, Up & Up, VLM, Zanotta.Performed a vast professional ac-tivity in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, being internation-ally recognized for his industrial production projects in the fields of light and furnishing, as well as the spectacular interior dressings realized all over the world. Achille Castiglioni dies in Milan, Decem-ber 2nd 2002.P.S. A complete list

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of the realized projects, by himself or in collaboration, is reported at the project section, summary sub-section.

fondazione viCo magistretti

Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti was set up in 2010 and it is dedicated to the Milanese ar-chitect and designer who contrib-uted create and spread interna-tionally the Italian Design during the sixties and nineties of the last century. This is an equity founda-tion organised and headed by Su-sanna Magistretti, the architect’s daughter, which the Triennale Design Museum of Milan belongs to as the official founder and also Artemide, De Padova, Flou, Oluce and Schiffini in the role of found-ers. The foundation’s main organ-isms are the Board of Directors and Scientific Committee. Fon-dazione Vico Magistretti sets out to safeguard and enhance the ar-chive and with it Vico Magistretti’s work, but, above all, it aims to be “a permanent non-profit institute serving society and its develop-ment, open to the public, which carries out research into tangible relics of man and his environment, acquiring, conserving, communi-cating and exhibiting them for the purposes of study, education and

pleasure”, thereby conforming to the definition of a museum set down by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).More specifi-cally, the foundation aims to serve the general public by displaying not just artefacts designed by the architect but also the design pro-cess which led to their creation through archive documents.Lastly, the museum sets out to promote Italian architecture and design, both nationally and international-ly, by working in conjunction with other facilities on the Milan circuit, first and foremost the Triennale di Milano.The foundation has its headquarters in the studio at 20 of via Conservatorio, in the his-toric center of Milan, where Vico worked for all my life and where it is still preserved the extraordinary archive and heritage of projects and objects.Those who enter the studio today immediately “meet” Magistretti (in a video montage of several interviews done dur-ing the last decade of his career), who talks about himself in a sort of familiar and professional auto-biography; he speaks about his own Milano, where he was born and where he lived, he speaks about friends, colleagues, about his idea of design, about his rich relationships with the companies

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he has worked with over decades of extraordinarily intense project activities.Fondazione studio mu-seo Vico Magistretti houses de-sign and architecture exhibitions and organizes guided tours, talks and meetings on the exhibition’s theme as well as workshops and educational activities for students of elementary, junior high and high school.

open dot

A makerspace, a place to meet and share, an experimentation in-novation and research hotbed.

Founded by dotdotdot together with an heterogeneus profession-al netword, Opendot put itself as a planning and production space where desing, digital technolo-gies and handicraft are merged and where alternative innovation models produces solutions which satisfy the business and compa-nies needed.

iL nuovo museo deLLe CuLture

Born out of a salvage operation of industrial archaeology on the site of the old Ansaldo factory in the Tortona area, the Mudec is a meeting place for cultures and communities. The complex com-prises different spaces to offer

visitors and the city a whole range of cultural events and facilities spread out over an area of 17,000 square metres.

The display area is laid out around a large, covered central plaza on the first floor, which hosts the section of the museum with the works of the permanent collec-tion and the rooms used for major exhibitions as well as the auditori-um, a theatre with three hundred seats devoted to performances and the visual arts.The ground-floor reception area includes a bistro, design store, ticket office, cloakroom, the Forum of Cultures, a conference hall/multifunctional space, educational facility, resto-ration workshop and repositories open to small groups for guided visits. Mudec Junior is a space specially designed for kids, where children too can come into con-tact with the world’s different cultures through games, multime-dia equipment and manual work-shops.

iL museo KarteLL

The Kartell Museum was estab-lished in 1999 for the company’s fiftieth anniversary by President Claudio Luti with the aim of con-serving, promoting and valuing

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the company’s ideals, and materi-al and non-material cultural herit-age.

In 2000, it won the Guggenheim Business and Culture Award for the best company museum.Its col-lections, always in progress, con-sist of more than 8,000 objects, 5,000 designs and 15,000 photo-graphs: together they recreate a precise picture of the evolution of Kartell’s history and production, the plastic materials adopted, the production technologies and the communications and distribution strategies used over the course of the company’s 65 years of activity. The Kartell Museum is located in the Kartell factory in Noviglio, at the gates of Milan, the company’s general headquarters since 1967: designed by architects Anna Cas-telli Ferrieri and Ignazio Gardella, it is today considered one of the most interesting examples of in-dustrial architecture in Lombardy.

The exhibits at the Museum have developed into a permanent dis-play of more than 2,000 square metres, implemented according to a design by architect Ferruccio Laviani. The display includes the most interesting materials linked to the design history of the prod-ucts produced from 1949, the year the company was formed, to date. Standouts include car accessories, household items, lamps, labora-tory items, furniture and acces-sories which have contributed to changing the domestic landscape and which have entered into our daily lives as iconic objects of Ital-ian design. The Museum may be visited by reservation and works to disseminate design culture to the public through publications and research, guided visits and exhibits.

bosCo vertiCaLe

Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy, between Via Gaetano de Castillia and Via Federico Con-falonieri near Milano Porta Gari-baldi railway station. They have a height of 110 meters and 76 me-ters and will host more than 900 trees (approximately 550 and 350 trees in the first and second tow-

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ers respectively) on 8,900 square metres (96,000 sq ft) of terrac-es. Within the complex is also an 11-story office building; its facade does not host plants. The towers were designed by Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca and Giovan-ni La Varra. It also involved input from horticulturalists and bota-nists. The building was inaugurat-ed in October 2014.

The project was designed as part of the rehabilitation of the historic district of Milan between Via De Island Castillia and Confalonieri. It consists of two residential towers

of which the largest is 26 floors and 110 meters high (called Torre E) and the smaller tower is 18 floors and 76 meters high (called Torre D). It contains 400 condo-minium units priced from 3,000 Euro per square metre and high-er. It is called Bosco Verticale be-cause each tower houses trees be-tween three and six meters, which help, mitigate smog and produce oxygen. It is also used to moder-ate temperatures in the building in the winter and summer. The plants also attenuate noise. The design was tested in a wind tunnel to ensure the trees would not top-ple from gusts of wind. Botanists and horticulturalists were consult-ed by the engineering team to en-sure that the structure could bear the load imposed by the plants. The steel-reinforced concrete bal-conies are designed to be 28 cm thick, with 1.30 metre parapets.

new feLtrineLLi

A new house for the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. A project for Milano and his people. Togheter with the building ordained to the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foun-dation, centre of study and re-search worldwide known, will rise two more buildings which will be mainly used as offices. The pecu-

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liarity of the area is represented by its location along the Spanish Walls blueprint: the antique walls, coming from XV century, are the latest from a defensive walls serie which, starting from roman age, defines the boundary of the city. With the opening of the Bastioni – defensive structure- at the end of the XIX century, Via Alessan-dro Volta marked the beginning of the enlargement of the city out of the old walls, representing a new connection axle from the historical centre and the Cimite-ro Monumentale. The project will be a huge intervention to value the Porta Volta area. The project foresees the realization of a green lung with a boulevard and cycling lanes. The new buildings will host coffee bars, restaurants and shops giving to the citizens a requalified area to live in. At the beginning, this guide has been thought as something usefull to not to miss Milano’s best places and these de-partmente chapters should have been about sights. The question was an easy one:

“what am i not supposed to miss out if i visit Milano and i want to become a graphic designer, fashion designer, designer, …”.

So, here is the Media Chapter and,

here are few movies about the city.

La notte, di miCheLangeLo antonioni

La Notte (English: The Night) is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and star-ring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti (Um-berto Eco appeared in a cameo). Filmed on location in Milan, the film is about a day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their deteriorating relationship. In 1961 La Notte received the Gold-en Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the David di Donatello Award for Best Di-rector. La Notte is considered the central film of a trilogy beginning with L’Avventura (1960) and end-ing with L’Eclisse (1962)

La vita agra, di CarLo Lizzani

La vita Agra, known in Eng-lish-speaking countries as It’s a Hard Life, is a novel by Luciano Bianciardi published in 1962 by Rizzoli. It became a best-seller in Italy and it is considered one

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of the most important novels in contemporary Italian literature. In 1962, when the novel was released it was praised by the public and the critics. It became a best-seller and was translated into English, French, German and Spanish. Ita-lo Calvino wrote a review in which he regarded the novel positively and compared it to other works of the so-called letteratura indus-triale (Industrial literature), a

current which spread at the be-ginning of the Italian economic miracle, such as Paolo Volponi’s Memoriale and Giovanni Arpino’s Una nuvola d’ira. He praised the all-encompassing language that succeeds masterfully in express-ing and representing the industri-al reality in a more complex way, even if he saw some weaknesses

connected to the book’s uncon-tainable autobiography that is limited, in his opinion, to a “pri-vate anarchist protest”. The novel was also made into a 1964 film of the same name, directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Ugo Tognazzi and Giovanna Ralli.

roCCo e i suoi frateLLi, di LuChino visConti

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (English: Rocco and His Brothers) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luchi-no Visconti, inspired by an epi-sode from the novel Il ponte della Ghisolfa by Giovanni Testori. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the so-ciety of the industrial North. The title is a combination of Thomas

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Vita Agra, Carlo Lizzani (1962)

Mann’s Joseph and his Brothers and the name of Rocco Scotella-ro, Italian poet who described the feelings of the peasants of south-ern Italy.The film stars Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, and Claudia Cardinale, in one of her early roles before she became internationally known. The film’s score was composed by Nino Rota.

miLano CaLibro 9, di fernando de Leo

The first part in director Fernan-do Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy, Milano Calibro 9 is a gritty, ultra-violent masterpiece and an essential en-try in the canon of the poliziottes-co sub-genre (Italian crime thrill-er). Released after a three-year term in prison for a bungled rob-bery, Ugo Piazza plans to lead the straight life for a while. But no sooner is he back on the street than he’s picked up by a bunch of hoodlums under the employ of his former boss, ‘the Americano’ – among them, the psychopathic Rocco – who are convinced that Ugo stole $300,000 from them. The gang forces Ugo to resume working for them in the hope that he’ll eventually lead them to their missing loot. Eschewing the slea-zier, more exploitative approach

of some if its poliziotteschi peers, Milano Calibro 9 delivers an alto-gether more thoughtful approach to its subject matter - although Di Leo is not averse to show-stop-ping gun fights and long, linger-ing shots of the lovely Barbara Bouchet (Don’t Toture a Duckling, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).

Milano Holds also few Movies fes-tival, one of the most known is –of course- the Milano Film Festival (MFF), also known as Milan Film Festival, is an annual film festi-val held since 1996 in Milan, Italy. Founded originallu as a compe-tition of only local short films, it becomes an international film fes-tival in 1998 when it also started to awards its participants. In 1999, feature films commenced to be shown, and in the following year they started to compete for the Best Film Award.

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paC, padigLione d’arte Contemporanea

The history of PAC began in 1947 when the Municipality of Milan, in search of a new space for the Mu-nicipal Collections of the XX cen-tury, found the former stables of Villa Reale, destroyed by bombing in 1943. Since 1921, the Villa had been the location of the Gallery of Modern Art, but the spaces were too small to house the most recent artistic trends and, ulti-mately, to become a museum for contemporary art. The projects to restore the area responded to two opposing views: the first fa-voured a faithful reconstruction of the previous architectural site and planned only the adjustment of the interior spaces. The second proposed the construction of a brand new building focused on the museum’s peculiar needs and functions. In March 1948 the pro-ject of architect Ignazio Gardella is approved; it brings together the two views and perfectly responds to the needs of the museum: max-imum availability and flexibility of the inner space and the chance to measure out and

differentiate light in every room. The projected building occupies the same area as before but has three levels, with a division into two floors visible from the park and just one floor facing Via Pal-estro. The result is an architectural space that can be split and divid-ed without losing the original unit. The Pavilion opened in 1954 as a location for the XX century col-lections. Very soon, however, PAC captures the increasingly pressing demands for relationship and de-bate with art abroad. Thus begins the activity of hosting temporary exhibitions, the first of which was dedicated to Georges Roualt. Af-ter a long period of closure to the public for renovations, in 1979 PAC reopens, finally abandoning the role of museum in favour of

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temporary exhibitions, research on the XX century art and new experimentations, not forgetting the aim of acquiring new artworks to complete the civic art collec-tions.The artworks are not always exposed respecting the origi-nal use of the three indoor envi-ronments: sculptures on the first floor paintings on the second, and drawings, documents and ob-jects in the gallery on the third.On the contrary, the pliancy of this historic example of museum architecture allows the Pavilion to go beyond traditions, adapting as sensitive place in tune with new and different artistic experiences. Thus, according to every exhibi-tion, the space acts as a container and a non-invasive party involved,

often a subject itself of a work by the artist. In 1993, a mafia bomb destroys PAC, in a pivotal histor-ic moment for the commitment of the country in the fight against mafia: a new and resounding at-tack to the symbols of culture and art in Italy, which also involved other Italian cities: the Uffizi mu-seum in Florence, St. John Lateran in Rome and St. George in Velabro in Rome. In 1996, Ignazio Gardel-la rebuilds PAC according to the original project, with fundamental technical improvements that get it closer to the exhibition spaces in the forefront abroad. In 2003 PAC contributes to the foundation of AMACI, the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, with the goal of sharing experiences

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and efforts to promote contem-porary art in Italy together with other committed museums and spaces on the national territory.

gam, gaLLeria d’arte moderna

The Galleria d’Arte Moderna (“modern art gallery”) is a mod-ern art museum in Milan, in Lom-bardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Villa Reale, at Via Palestro 16, opposite the Giardini Pubblici. The collection consists largely of Italian and European works from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The museum has works by Giuseppe Ferrari, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Boldini, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Pi-casso, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Francesco Hayez, Gio-vanni Segantini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Antonio Canova, among others. It has received do-nations from Milanese families of including Treves, Ponti, Grassi and Vismara.After the Second World War the twentieth-century works in the collection were moved to the Padiglione d’Arte Contempo-ranea, built in 1955 on the site of the former stables of the palace, which had been destroyed by wartime bombing. In 2011 some

works were moved to the Museo del Novecento; these included Bambina che corre sul balcone by Giacomo Balla (1912), Uomo che dorme by Renato Guttuso (1938) and The Fourth Estate by Pellizza da Volpedo (1901).In recent years the Modern Art Gallery has start-ed a parallel program of tempo-rary exhibitions, including a solo presentation of Tino Sehgal and a selection of drawings from the UBS Art Collection curated by Francesco Bonami.

paLazzo reaLe

The Royal Palace of Milan (Italian: Palazzo Reale di Milano) was the seat of government of the Italian city of Milan for many centuries, but today is an important cultural centre, home to expositions and exhibitions. Originally designed with a system of two yards, then partially demolished to make room for the Duomo, the palace is located to the right of the facade of the cathedral in the opposite position with respect to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. The facade of the building follows the line of the ancient courtyard, form-ing a recess with respect to Piaz-za del Duomo, known also as the Piazzetta Reale (English: Small Royal square). On the first floor of

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the building you’ll find the mag-nificentHall of Caryatids, which occupies the site of the old thea-tre burned in 1776 and is the only environment that survived the heavy bombings in 1943, when the Palace lost most of the neo-classical interiors.

fondazione trussardi (temporary shows)

The Nicola Trussardi Foundation is a non-profit institution for the promotion of contemporary art and culture. Created in 1996, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation is neither a museum nor a collec-tion. It’s rather an agency for the production and the diffusion of contemporary art in a wide varie-ty of contexts and channels.

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From autumn 2003, under the direction of President, Beatrice Trussardi and with Artistic Direc-tor, Massimiliano Gioni, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation has decid-ed to explore new territories and modes of presenting contempo-rary art; its main purpose is now the realization of contemporary art events and exhibitions in pub-lic spaces of the city of Milan.The Nicola Trussardi Foundation has left its exhibition spaces in Pala-zzo Marino alla Scala to disperse contemporary art directly in the city of Milano: the Foundation explores the art world of today, and it becomes a compass to ori-ent oneself in the theatre of the city, starting new collaborations with the institutions of Milan, in-side and outside contemporary culture’s borders.With its activity, two major exhibitions a year and a series of more agile projects such as publications, insertions in mag-azines, mail projects, the Founda-tion infiltrates in Milan and looks at the city as a new visionary field for art and culture, a tank of ener-gy and creativity that originating new occasions of exchange and ideas to promote. The Foundation invests all its resources and knowl-edge to produce culture’s events and to make the most innovative

research of contemporary artists available to everyone.

fondazione prada

Fondazione Prada, designed by Rem Khoolas/OMA architects ia a stunning Foundation realised in 2015 by Prada. As it is stated in their website: “Art is the Fon-dazione’s main and given instru-ment of working and learning. A territory of freethinking in which established, indelible figures– as well as emerging approaches– are welcomed. The Prada Collec-tion, comprising mostly of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, is another one of our given in-struments. Our collection is con-ceived as a resource of perspec-tives and of potential energy. We will invite different kind of people to provide new interpretations of undetected ideas from the collec-tion: curators, artists, architects but also scientists and students, thinkers and writers.”

This is a not to miss place to be in Milan, to nourish creativity, to be inspired and to realize how Art in

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all its facets can be an immersive amazing and holistic experience.

ARMANI SILOS

The recent opening of a stunning building containing the history of one of the most iconic brands of the Made in Italy. Exhibitions al-low visitors to see and “touch” the heritage of the brand the design and overall quaulity of its roots together with a reading of the so-ciety in which the made In Italy phenomen was born.

FASHION STORES

La vetrina di beryL via statuto, 4 - 20121 miLano

Since more than 20 years this is the address for shoes addict, a research high end store where to search for the latest models from the main Brands worldwide.

La rinasCente – piazza duomo

The historical department store of Milan, with a selection of the best Italian and international fashion and lifestyle brands. Very interest-ing food and design floors.

eXCeLsior gaLLeria deL Corso, 4

Department store with a focus on iconic, contemporary fashion and lifestyle products. Very interest-ing Eat Bistrot and Food Hall.

woK store via CoL di Lana 5/a

Proposal of young and fresh re-search brands such as Adidas by Raf Simons and Adidas Originals

Armani Silos Museum

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by Jeremy Scott, Christopher Raeburn, etc....

daad dantone via santo spirito 24/a

Research-oriented multi brand store with brands such as: CY CHOI, Damir Doma, D.Gnak by Kang.D, Marsèll, Uma Wang, Pierre Balmain amongst the others.

antonioLi via pasquaLe paoLi 1

A careful selection of researched and innovative ideas. A very precise style and point of view on fashion, wisely represented through the creations of design-ers such as Alexander Wang, Rick Owen, Gareth Pugh, Givenchy, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeule-meester amongst many others.

10 Corso Como

Founded in 1990 by gallerist and publisher Carla Sozzani, 10 Corso Como is a shop and dining com-plex also including an art gallery and hotel. It hosts a selection of the best fashion of the moment (and not only).

10 Corso Como, Design Week 2015

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BUREAUCRATIC ISSUES

All foreigners who enter Italy legally must comply with the rules governing the stay of foreigners in Italy. They are required to report their presence in Italian territory to the local Central Police Station (‘Questura’) of the province in which they are staying and non-EU students must apply for a residence permit (‘permesso di soggiorno’) pursuant to article 5 of Law 286/1998.

fisCaL Code (CodiCe fisCaLe)

Procedures for all students (EU and extra EU)

The tax code (in Italian: CODICE FISCALE) is an alphanumeric code, composed of letters and numbers, which allow the Ministry of Finance to identify you. The fiscal code is strictly personal and is one of the most important documents in Italy required to apply to the Permit to stay.

The Fiscal code can be required at the Italian Embassy in your

country before your leaving

The fiscal code is required to:

› Enroll in the Italian Public Health

Service

› Enroll at the university

› Obtain a Public Transport card

› Open a bank account

› Be employed

› Buy a SIM Card (for mobile

telephone)

› Draw up a contract (a lease, a sale

contract, etc.)

If you have not obtained your fiscal code before leaving, once you are in Milano you must go the office called Agenzia delle Entrate

Address: Via Moscova, 2 (MAIN OFFICE) (1st floor)Metro: MM2 MOSCOVAMetro: MM3 TURATIOpening hoursMonday to Friday: 8.45 am – 1.00 pm

› If you are an EU student you only

need to show your passport or ID

card

› If you are a NON-EU student you

need your passport together with

a copy of your visa

› You need a valid address in Milan.

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Then you will be asked to fill in a

form

The code is issued on the same day and it will never expire. You can use it every time you come back to Italy.

permit to stay

Procedure for NON-EU students Non-EU citizens (including those who are not required to hold a visa) must apply for the Permit to Stay (PTS) – called “Permesso di Soggiorno” within 8 working days from the date of entry.

• Step Number One: Fill In The Form

Go to the Student Life Office or to the Post Office desk and ask for a “Permit to Stay kit”.

Fill in the form. The Office will help with every step of the process.

• Step Number Two: Collect Documents

› Copy of passport (ALL the pages,

including the cover and the blank

pages). Bring the original with

you to the post office

› Copy of original letter of

acceptance to the program on

NABA letterhead, validated by the

Italian embassy/consulate

› Certified copy of your health

insurance. The insurance must

cover you for the whole duration

of the new permit to stay. If you

do not have health insurance you

can subscribe to the “default”

health insurance for foreigners

while applying for Permit to Stay

(INA ASSITALIA). This kind of

insurance will only cover real

emergency situations.

› €16,00 Marca da Bollo (stamp

duty) to be purchased at

Tobacconist’s (with a “T” outside)

› Money in cash: €137,50 (€107,50

for tax fee and €30,00 for issuing

the Permit)

› If you don’t have your own

insurance: €49,00 euro for six

months / €98,00 euro for 1 year

• Step Number Three: At The Post Office

Put all the required documents in the kit without closing the envelope and bring it to a Post office

Student Life Office will suggest you the post office of reference. It could be the Central Post Office: Milano Cordusio, Via Cordusio 4 or one of the following post offices:

› Via R. Bonghi 3/7 Tel: 02

84405537

Opening hours: Monday through

Friday from 8.00 am to 07.00

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12.00 am

› Via Rimini 2

Tel: 02 8466513

Opening hours: Monday through

Friday from 8.00 am to 2.00 pm /

Saturday from 08.30 am to 12.00

am

After the payment the post office will give you back :

› A receipt, an important document

that substitutes the real Permit.

Please keep it together with your

passport with you at all times,

and keep a copy of the receipt at

home.

› An appointment at the police

station to check the documents.

Please don’t miss it. If you don’t

get any appointment at the Post

Office, you should receive a letter

or a text message.

On www.portaleimmigrazione.it it is possible to check the date for the appointment in case you don’t receive any letter. You will find the website access codes (“codice istanza” and “assicurata”) on your receipt.

• Step Number Four: At The Police Station

Bring the following documents:

› Passport or other equivalent

document

› Original letter of acceptance

validated by the Italian Embassy/

Consulate when the entry visa

was issued

› 4 identical passport-size

photographs

› Original health insurance policy as

well as a photocopy

› Certificate of enrolment

› At the police station you will be

fingerprinted twice

If all the documents are complete, you should get your Permit to Stay.

If your Permit is not available yet, you will receive another notice from the police station to collect it.

REGISTRATION AT MILAN MUNICIPALITY

Procedures for all students (EU and extra EU).

After three months of stay, all students must register at the Municipality (Comune di Milano) to apply for a residence certificate if they intend to live here for more than one year.

On line procedure: www.comune.milano.it Click on Residenza e cittadinanza

EU students click on:

Iscrizione anagrafica per i cittadini stranieri appartenenti

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all’Unione Europea NON-EU students click on:

Iscrizione anagrafica per i cittadini stranieri non appartenenti all’Unione Europea

Download and fill in the forms before signing, scanning, and sending them along with all the required documents via email to protocollo@postacert.comune.milano.it (email subject APR)

Student Life can assist you with the procedure.

heaLth

National Health Care System

In Italy the National Healthcare System (SSN) is provided by a public healthcare service (ASL).

Only foreign students with a valid permit of stay may apply for this service.

Subscribing to the SSN is not compulsory; however, it is strongly recommended since it allows students to be treated as an Italian citizen with concerns to their health. It gives students the option to choose a doctor (visits free of charge), who can address students to health specialists (dentists, orthopedist, etc.) when needed, and who can prescribe medicines or medical tests.

In order to register with the SSN, you have to go to the ASL of your city area.

To locate your local office, which is based on your district of residence, check

www.asl.milano.it – stranieri – scelta e revoca del medico

Nearest ASL office to NABA Campus

› Via Gola, 22 Milano

Tel: 02 85788017

Opening hours: Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday 8.30 -12.00

am and 1.30 – 3.00 pm

If you are a EU student, you need to bring

› Your European medical BLUE

card

If you are an NON EU student, you need

› Your codice fiscale

› Your passport

› Your permit of stay

› Certificate of enrolment in

NABA academic programs in

Italian (available at Academic

Registration Office)

› The receipt of a payment to SSN

(€ 150,00)

private heaLth Care system

There are also a number of private hospitals and clinics,

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which offer a wide range of medical services. Charges for these services vary, but are generally higher than those applied by public hospitals.

For more deals please see the GENERAL DISCOUNT SESSION

CODICE VERDE

NABA has an agreement with Codice Verde.

Codice Verde is a private practice run by experienced E.R. doctors for minor illnesses and emergencies, checkups and specialists’ visits. Patients should call Tel: 02 58319874 to make an appointment. English speaking staff.

› Via Crivelli 15/1 – Milano

www.codiceverde.com

Suggested centers providing health and social services focused on women’s health care:

› Consultorio familiare Integrato

Via Remo La Valle 7

Tel: 02 85788530

› Consultorio familiare Integrato

Via Stovani 5

Tel: 02 85788532

› Consultorio familiare Integrato

Via Monreale 13

Tel: 02 85788535

› Consultorio familiare Ferrera

› Via della Ferrera 14

Tel: 02 85788534

› Consultorio familiare Integrato

Via Oglio 18

Tel: 02 85788427

› Consultorio familiare Fantoli

Via Gaudenzio Fantoli 7

Tel: 02 85788430

› Consultorio familiare Boifava

Via Boifava 25

Tel: 02.85788428

› Centro Problemi Donna

Via della Guastalla 8

Tel: 02 861145 - info@cpdonna.it

› Centre for women’s problems

(Centro Problemi Donna) –

English-speaking staff.

› Via della Guastalla 8

Tel: 02 861145 - info@cpdonna.it

› Consultorio Familiare Fondazione

C.A.Me.N. onlus

Via S. Cristoforo 5

Tel: 02 48953740

pharmaCies nearby:

Opening hours for pharmacies are usually 8.30-12.30 am and 3.30-7.30 pm, Mon-Sat. Some stores close on Saturdays. Pharmacies, which are open at night and on Sunday, are listed in the local pages of the major newspapers.

For information on pharmacies in Milan you can dial 800 801185.

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pharmaCies near the aCademy: › Farmacia Alzaia Pavese - Via Pichi

9

› Farmacia Bianchini - Via Pavia 1

› Farmacia Conte - Via Lagrange 2

› Farmacia Meda - Via Meda 37

pharmaCies 24/7: › Farmacia Stazione Centrale - Tel.

02 6690735

› Farmacia Boccaccio Via

Boccaccio, 26 - Tel. 02 4695281

› Farmacia Carlo Erba,

Piazza Duomo, 21 - Tel. 02

72023120/02861161

› Farmacia Reale, Via Larga, 16 - Tel.

02 875463

hospitaLs

If you are in need of urgent medical assistance dial 118 national emergency number (toll free).

Be prepared to provide the operator with the following information:

› The kind of emergency

› The address of your current

location (also the NUMBER of the

building)

› Your name and surname

› Your phone number

ospedaLe niguarda

› Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3 – Tel:

02 64441

www.ospedaleniguarda.it

› Ospedale Fatebenefratelli

Corso Porta Nuova 23 – Tel: 02

63631

www.fbf.milano.it

› Ospedale Maggiore(“Policlinico”)

Via F. Sforza 35 – Tel: 02 55031

www.policlinico.mi.it

› Ospedale San Carlo

Via Pio Secondo 3 – Tel: 02 40221

www.sancarlo.mi.it

› Ospedale San Giuseppe

Via San Vittore 12, Tel. +39

028599

www.fatebenefratelli.it/s.giuseppe

ospedaLe san raffaeLe

Via Olgettina 60 Tel: 02 26431 www.sanraffaele.org

ospedaLe san paoLo

Via di Rudinì 8 – Tel: 02 81841 www.hspsanpaolo.mi.it

ospedaLe Luigi saCCo

Via G. B. Grassi 74 – Tel: 02 39041 www.hsacco.it

At the triage of the ER you will be assigned a code: GREEN (non-urgent care) YELLOW (critical condition) RED (life threatening).

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BANK ACCOUNT

Students life office has a special agreement with UBI COMMERCIO E INDUSTRIA bank. To apply is easy and you can do it directly on campus at the Student Life Office.

What documents do I need to open a bank account?

› Fiscal Code. It will be given to you

during the appointment for the

Permit to Stay forms filling

› Passport

› Italian phone number

I have no Italian phone number, can I apply without it?

Unfortunately no, the bank needs an Italian phone number to text you the password for the home banking system.

How much does the bank account opening cost?

It’s almost totally costless. You can withdraw from any ATM with no commissions. The only fee the bank account has, is in case of incoming bank transfer. You will be charged 5€ to receive money from abroad.

M-ID CARD

Last but not least

We are pleased to let you know

about a new opportunity, which is now offered to you throughout the time you will be our student.

Thanks to our partnership with the Chamber of Commerce of Milan and the Municipality of Milan, you can make use of services designed for you as an international student and to make your stay in Milan even better, and easier.

Please, visit the website: http://www.studyinmilan.net/ to view all the benefits you can enjoy thanks to the M-id card, a special identity card created for you as NABA / DA student.

You can activate your M-id card when you are in Milano by asking for your personal code at Student Life office, then you must to fill out all the required fields and print your M-id card.

You can view all the offers and check any news by browsing our website http://www.studyinmilan.net/, where you will find new benefits designed especially for you!

emergenCies numbers

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118 AMBULANCE

113 POLICE

115 FIRE