Got up, still tired from our 30 hours of travel to get here. Went down to the biggest breakfast spread we’d ever encountered in Europe. Hot and cold food. Wow.
Finally got out of the hotel and went around the corner to the dramatic Duomo – went inside and caught the end of the Easter service. It was quite beautiful inside and out. Chet took lots of photos, and then we went to the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuel, which is a glass-covered arcade filled with shops and people milling about on Easter Sunday. Most of the businesses were closed, as one would expect. The galleria runs between the Piazza di Duomo and the Piazze della Scala; holy ground, one might say, and location of the Teatro della Scala (or La Scala, as it is more widely known).
We wandered around, through the public gardens (which pale alongside New York and Paris), and down the Via Spiga, premier shopping district for the well-heeled. Every famous designer appears to have a showroom there, highlighting their latest designs – some of which were hits and some of which were misses, for us. We were sure that none was affordable, though, even had we wanted any.
Milan is very industrial feeling, and doesn’t exude the history that Rome does. There are many not-very-interesting cement buildings, some of which were constructed while Benito Mussolini was Italy’s imperial ruler.
Finally got out of the hotel and went around the corner to the dramatic Duomo – went inside and caught the end of the Easter service. It was quite beautiful inside and out. Chet took lots of photos, and then we went to the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuel, which is a glass-covered arcade filled with shops and people milling about on Easter Sunday. Most of the businesses were closed, as one would expect. The galleria runs between the Piazza di Duomo and the Piazze della Scala; holy ground, one might say, and location of the Teatro della Scala (or La Scala, as it is more widely known).
We wandered around, through the public gardens (which pale alongside New York and Paris), and down the Via Spiga, premier shopping district for the well-heeled. Every famous designer appears to have a showroom there, highlighting their latest designs – some of which were hits and some of which were misses, for us. We were sure that none was affordable, though, even had we wanted any.
Milan is very industrial feeling, and doesn’t exude the history that Rome does. There are many not-very-interesting cement buildings, some of which were constructed while Benito Mussolini was Italy’s imperial ruler.
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