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MILAN, THE RIGHT PLACE TO BE Dear Guest, first of all, welcome in Milan, the right place to be in 2015 according to New York Times. The Usa based daily, read and trusted worldwide, stated that this is the perfect year to visit our beloved city, put at the top of the list of the 52 world cities not to miss in 2015. The main reason? Expo, of course, the world exhibition dedicated to food that will open in May. But never mind, you are not too early, because the city has much more to offer. The suggestions of NY Times aren’t so different from the ones that we keep telling to our guests day by day. And some of them are displayed on this magazine, the official guide to the city licensed by the Concierges association. Milan Concierge Information is the unique instrument that we use in our hotels. It means that we tried to put our best suggestions in these pages, with the purpose to make this magazine a true 24/7 guide to the city.

For example March is a good month for art: you might be in time for the last days of Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in Palazzo Reale or ready for the opening of the exhibit dedicated to the Lombardy art in the 14th and 15th Century. If painting is among your interests, you might be happy to discover the skills of Donato Bramante, that the world knows better as an architect, and to walk along the rooms and the collections of Pinacoteca di Brera. If music is your passion, you would enjoy Aida, one of the most known Giuseppe Verdi operas, at Teatro alla Scala, or the duet of rockstars with Paul Simon and Sting. If you prefer shopping, just get lost in the commercial streets of the city: there’s one of them especially dedicated to menswear. Long story short, whatever you may like, Milan can be the right place for you.

Sami Zeaiter, President of Lombard hotel Concierges

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mensile dell’Associazione Lombarda Portieri d’Albergo “Le Chiavi d’Oro” Marzo 2015 – Anno 02 – Numero 03 Editore: Associazione Lombarda Portieri d’Albergo, via G. Modena 10, Milano Direttore Responsabile: Ugo Rossi - Direttore Editoriale: Bernie Gallotta Registrazione del Tribunale di Milano n.356 del 12.11.2014 Concessionaria pubblicitaria: GTS Global Tourist System via G. Modena 10, 20129 Milano Responsabile Commerciale: Emanuela Mattioli email: mattioli@globaltouristsystem.it Progetto grafico, redazione ed impaginazione: Alberto Valeri Srl , Milano Stampa: Ellevigrafica, Via Gabriele D’Annunzio, 4, Muggiò (Monza Brianza) Hanno collaborato: Giampiero Canneddu , Dino Bondavalli, Carlotta Valeri (foto)

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WE RECOMMEND 60 CENACOLO VINCIANO THE GENIUS OF LEONARDO AND THE CHURCH 68 QUARTIRE GARIBALDI HISTORY, GLAMOUR AND LIVELY NIGHTLIFE 74 QUARTIERE BICOCCA THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE FACTORY NEIGHBORHOOD 80 FIERA MILANO THE BIG HOUSE OF FAIRS IS ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY

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BRAMANTE THE PAINTING SKILLS OF A FAMOUS ARCHITECT

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he world knows Donato Bramante through his most magnificent artwork: the first design for Saint Peter’s basilica in Rome, the siege of the Pope and the centre of catholic world. But architecture was only one of his passions and skills: an exhibition, open until Sunday 22 at Pinacoteca di Brera, is celebrating his work as a painter, concentrating on the years when he lived in Milan. “Bramante a Milano, le arti in Lombardia 1477-1499” is the title of the exhibition, hosted in the “house of painting” of the big city, the museum born more than two centuries ago beside the academy of fine arts, in the middle of the neighborhood that still hosts the majority of artistic and cultural life of Milan.

This exhibition is also a spectacular way to celebrate an anniversary: Donato di Angelo di Pascuccio, universally known as “il Bramante”, died in Rome in 1514, exactly five centuries ago. He left traces of his art all around Italy, but particularly in Milan and in Rome: in the early Renaissance years, he was famous as an architect. The nobles that were in charge of the government of the cities first and then the Popes committed him works on several important projects that marked an age in italian art and architecture and that we can still see now. His ability as an architect outshadowed his skills

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as a painter, even if in the early years of his career he studied the works on perspective of Andrea Mantegna and was a friend of Piero della Francesca and Melozzo da Forlì.

THE MILAN YEARS When he was 30, he moved to Milan and the Duke Ludovico Sforza virtually named him as the court architect.

Probably his most famous work is the “trompe l’oeil” decoration of the abse on Santa Maria presso San Satiro church, a bas-relief work that gives to the visitors the sensation of a perspective scene with Roman details. He worked also to the rebuilding or the church of Sant’Ambrogio where he projected and added a vicarage and two cloisters with the characteristic columns that look like a tree trunk.

In 1499 he was forced to leave Milan when the French army pushed his patron Sforza away from the city. And his new house became Rome: cardinal Della Rovere, even before he became Pope under the name of Julius II, charged him of the project of the small temple of San Pietro in Montorio. It was 1502 and this small building, that marks the place where Saint Peter was supposedly crucified, is considered the first example of High Renaissance architecture in Rome.

Then it came the work around the rebuilding of Saint Peter’s basilica. Bramante imagined a greek cross plan, symbol of absolute perfection. But his original idea didn’t survive because the central nave was extended after his death.

The exhibition of Pinacoteca di Brera focuses on the way Bramante could influence arts and style in Lombardy. It was the time, under the domination of the dukes Sforza, when Milan was a dynamic cultural centre. And innovation was one of the key words: in the same years when Bramante revolutioned architecture, Milan hosted also the genius of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Urbino-born artist came in a city where the dominant style was gothic and turned it in something new, often rebuilding spaces with a wise mix of old and new. The pragmatism in the use of

spaces («He was a determined, fast and excellent inventor» said of him Giorgio Vasari, historic of arts and artist himself) was a peculiarity also of his paintings. Not many of them survived, unluckily: but many paintings (some are frescoes translated on canvas) are kept in the permanent collection of Pinacoteca di Brera.

FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION It’s the case of “Eraclito e Democrito”, a portrait of the two philosophers of Ancient Greece painted between 1486 and 1487, or of “Christ at the column”, a masterpiece dated between 1490 and 1499.

The exhibition will display also the famous “Incisione Prevedari”, an etching of Bernardo Prevedari that shows the project of a temple with columns drawn

by Bramante.

In the rooms of Pinacoteca di Brera, artworks of the permanent collection are mixed with the paintings brought to Milan for this exhibition. And the itinerary offers to the visitors the perception of the way Bramante influenced the works of his contemporary artists in Lombardy: Vincenzo Foppa, Ambrogio Bergognone, Bartolomeo Suardi (know also with the emblematic nickname of Bramantino), Bernardo Zenale admired the style of Bramante and their masterpieces can be seen beside the ones of their “maestro”.

Donato Bramante, Cristo alla colonna (Christ at the column), 1490-1499, Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera Donato Bramante Eraclito e Democrito (Heraclitus and Democritus), 1486-1487, Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera

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THE SAME ARCHITECT OF TEATRO ALLA SCALA Giuseppe Piermarini, the same architect of Teatro alla Scala, had the assignment to draw the project for the revamping of the building. We owe to his creativity the refurbishment of the library, the majestic portal on the main facade and the backyard, that still hosts the statue of Mars, after a model of neoclassical italian sculptor Antonio Canova. The collection of paintings was enriched to offer to the students some examples of italian art of the past centuries.

MASTERPIECES FROM ALL CENTURIES One of the most precious masterpieces is the Marriage of the Virgin, of Raphael. When Milan became a province of the French Empire, the gallery turned into a museum with artworks from the lands conquered by Napoleon. The majority of paintings coming from churches and convents was added to Brera collection in these years, when Napoleon suppressed the religious orders. In later years, the gallery started to host also masterpieces of contemporary painters of the italian artistic scene: now the permanent collection can offer a walk through the years of italian painting, from Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci to Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Canaletto, until the 20th Century masters Carrà, De Pisis, Boccioni, Modigliani and Morandi.

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Pinacoteca di Brera is considered the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, thanks to its rich collection. An outgrowth of the Brera Academy, it is hosted in a building committed to the study of arts since 18th Century. In those years empress Maria Theresa of Austria decided to open an academy in a former convent of Jesuits. The building hosted also the Library “Braidense”, the Lombard Institute of Literature and the astronomic observatory.

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here’s a lot of work and a long story behind the exhibition “Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza”, that will open on Thursday 12 and will be one of the cultural highlights of Milan in the first months of Expo 2015. It’s not only probably the most complete showcase of the golden centuries of art in Lombardy, between 1300 and 1500, when the city and the region were under the government of the noble dynasties of Visconti and Sforza, that loved and enhanced culture. It’s also the last step of a long research that started one century ago and inspired, almost sixty years ago, another anthologic exhibition. It was 1958 and Palazzo Reale, the building beside Piazza Duomo, had been restored after the World War II bombings.

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i ARTE LOMBARDA “Dai Visconti agli Sforza” From Thursday 12 Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo, 12 OPENING HOURS ● Monday 2,30 pm - 7,30 pm ● Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9,30 am – 7,30 pm ● Thursday and Saturday 9,30 am - 10,30 pm Previous page: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Giovane con freccia e mano al cuore in figura di San Sebastiano, (about 1500) Moscow, Puškin Museum.

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cultural events of those years, with 500 artworks displayed.

BACK AFTER 1958 Now the same title and the same project are back, with an exhibition that has an ambitious and relevant goal: Milan and Lombardy have been central in the birth of modern European culture.

The curators have examined the same centuries of the 1958 exhibit: from the beginning of 1300 to the beginning of 1500, when the Visconti and Sforza families were on charge of the Milan government, until the French domination took the power over the city. In these fifty years deeper studies allowed to do significant progress in the knowledge of art in those years while technology pushed forward the skills of conservation and restoration of artworks.

Mauro Natale and Serena Romano, the curators, are happy of the result: «Today art of Lombardy of the end of Middle Age and of Renaissance appears as a historic reality of international significance, showing its influence in the main European countries». The relationship between the Milan-based artists and the rest of the known world is under the spotlight as a substantial part of the identity of Milan culture.

THE MAGNIFICENT COURT Indeed these two centuries are seen as a golden age for Lombardy, celebrated in storiography and still pre-

sent in the urban pattern. It’s considered the first moment of complete civilization around a reigning court.

And the exhibition will follow this development in chronological order, illustrating the abundance and the density or the art production in many fields: painting, sculpture, goldworking, jewellery, miniature, glass, with a vitality that matched the needs of the world around and becomes a trademark known as the “ouvraige de Lombardie”.

Previous page: Bernardino Butinone, Madonna in trono con il Bambino e santi Giustina e Giovanni Battista (about 1483-86) private collection Above: Acta Sanctorum, manuscript, Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense

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manuscripts. These are the years when Lombardy art crosses the borders to accept the influence of different schools, as the Tuscany one.

Walking along the years, the 1400 starts with the Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his magnificent project for the new cathedral, the Duomo.

Some statues and some glasses from the church are displayed in the exhibition.

Artists like Giovannino de’ Grassi and Michelino da Besozzo worked in the building of Duomo and helped to make of Milan one of the centres of gothic style. When Filippo Maria Visconti started his reign, even if many artists left Milan, the art still walked on the path of late gothic style with a wider use of precious materials as gold.

In this section visitors will see for the first time a precious dyptich of Francesco Zavattari, for the first time reunited (the two tables are in Prague and in Chile).

Above: Bonifacio Bembo Adorazione dei Magi (1445 - 1450), Denver, Denver Art Museum

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The exhibition will start with a short introduction, with a gallery of portraits of the dynasties of Visconti and Sforza nobles. The first section talks of the second half of 1300, when the Visconti family started to dedicate particular cares to the cultural environment. They called in Milan artist from other cities, as Giotto and Giovanni di Balduccio from Tuscany.

Then they rebuilt and renewed the cities around Milan, founding libraries, too.

WITNESSING EXCELLENCE The artworks witness an excellent technique in many fields, from sculpture to tapestry, not to mention the

THE SFORZA YEARS When Visconti family left the power, Francesco Sforza took charge of the government and Milan became the real heart of cultural life of the Duchy. Big workshops started their activity, getting the commitments of many important jobs, as the decorations of Castello Sforzesco. Vincenzo Foppa, Zanetto Bugatto, Maestro di Chiaravalle are among the prominent artists of these years, whose artworks are part of the exhibition.

The last section talks of the years of Ludovico il Moro, when Milan was the hometown for masters as Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Bramantino. It’s the time when jewels, embroideries, glazes produced in Lombardy are requested in all Europe. Most of them are copies of an original model created by an artist, an anticipation of the design industry that Milan still hosts in 21st Century.

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THE AUSTRIAN TOUCH In 18th century Milan was the capital of a province of the Austro-Hungaric kingdom. The palace increased its prestige thanks to the baroque ornaments and, in the last years of the century, the architect Giuseppe Piermarini projected a makeover to the neoclassic style. Since then, the kings and the queens like Marie Therese, Ferdinand I and the Savoia family (and also emperors like Napoleon) chose to live in the palace. Famous artists and painters were called to enrich the rooms with paintings, statues, ornaments and fine furniture.

THE BOMBS AND THE REBIRTH In 20th century Palazzo Reale became property of the italian state and was immediately opened to the public. But in 1943, during the huge bombings on Milan of World War II, the building was seriously damaged. The works of rebuilding and restoring lasted for decades. After fifty years Palazzo Reale has been reopened: now it hosts temporary expositions and a permanent exposition called Museo della Reggia, still not completed, that shows the various ages of the palace and, more than all, the ornaments and the masterpieces that made of this building a place worthy for kings and queens.

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Palazzo Reale means royal palace. But who were the kings and queens that used to live in this fascinating building, right in the heart of the big city? First, in the Middle Age, it was the siege of the government. When the families Visconti and Sforza took place as lords of Milan, Palazzo Reale became the heart not only of the political but also of the cultural life of the city, with elegant events and sumptuous receptions.

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PAUL SIMON & STING TWO LEGENDS OF ROCK SHARE THE SAME STAGE

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wo legends on the same stage, two outstanding musicians ready to merge their styles and their charisma, two poets that added notes to their verses: Paul Simon and Sting will perform in Milan on Monday 30, in one of the concerts of their European tour, that starts on March 12 in Poland. The kick-off night of the world tour of the two artists has been “down under”, in New Zealand and Australia, and it has been a collection of sold-outs. The reason is easy to understand: the acoustic guitar that invented “The sound of silence” and the bass that gave the rhythm to The Police have written songs that are in everybody’s mind (and iPods). And many of them are in the setlist of the concert.

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i PAUL SIMON+STING Monday 30 March Mediolanum Forum Via Giuseppe di Vittorio, Assago, Milano Scheduled time: 9 pm

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Paul Simon and Sting start the night together, surrounded by a band of eighteen musicians that play everything, from drums to keyboards (with David Sancious, former member of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band), from cello to tuba. But the concert is a succession of duets and solo exhibitions: they sing together in “Brand new day” or “Boy in the bubble” or in the reggae-style “Love is the seventh wave”. Then the stage is for one of them only: “Me and Julio down by the schoolyard”, “50 ways to leave your lover” or “Kodachrome” are in everybody’s mind after the mighty concert live in Central Park when Paul Simon performed with Art Garfunkel. “Message in a bott-

le”, “Roxanne”, “Every little thing she does is magic” come from the times when Sting was a former english teacher leading the rock trio The Police.

Then they mix their talents to sing together masterpieces like “Fragile”, “The boxer”, “Every breath you take” or “Bridge over troubled water”, where Sting nails the high notes that Art Garfunkel used to sing.

But how do different styles merge together on stage? Paul Simon answered this question in Australia, before one of the gigs of the tour: «When we first started to sing together, which we did for a charity event in New York, we had these two very distinct voices from two very different cultural environments and locations. But

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listening to each other and singing closely, we finally did begin to get a really nice blend. That will come right back too. I think we’ll pick up exactly where we left off». And Sting added: «Like riding a bike».

NEIGHBORS IN NEW YORK The two artists first met in New York a few years ago: they used to be neighbors in the same building. In those times they already started their solo career, after a huge success with other musicians, even if they always appeared as the leaders of their musical projects. This time, there’s no leader but only two charismatic artists that decide to try «a little experiment», as Paul Simon said before

one of their first public exhibitions, in front of Madison Square Garden crowd last summer. «The criteria really is fun» added Sting, in the same australian interview. «If you are having fun with a group of musicians and another singer then that’s it. This is a very fun show and the audience reaction reflects that». If fun is an ingredient, an open mind is also at the base of this artistic relationship: «We have been explorers» Sting underlined, remembering the love of both for the so-called world music. «And that helped. We’re good enough musicians to go looking into other areas and try to assimilate the knowledge from that and let it change our musical thinking so it becomes a hybrid».

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE TOLKIEN SAGA INSPIRED ALSO THE QUEEN OF DENMARK

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or all movie lovers, Frodo, Gandalf and all the characters of the saga have the face and the look that Peter Jackson have chosen for them. But they existed, in the fantasy of any reader and of a few illustrators and designers, before the books of J.R.R. Tolkien gave inspiration to popular films. This is the topic of the exhibition “La magia dell’anello” (“The magic of the ring”), completely dedicated to the works grown around the worldwide success of the fantasy story of “The lord of the rings”. Part of the charme of the exhibit is in the museum that hosts it: Spazio Wow is a place completely committed to the celebration of comics and animated images. In a building in viale Campania, in the eastern side of Milan, not so far from the Linate airport, a foundation dedicated to the memory of journalist Franco Fossati decided four years ago to celebrate the ninth art with a space for exhibitions, a library, a bookshop, lessons and labs.

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the characters of “The lord of the rings”. Even not-Tolkien fans would appreciate the chance to see the unique draws of a very special artist: Her Majesty the Queen Margrethe of Denmark allowed to send to Milan a few of her works that illustrated the first danish edition of the Tolkien book. The Queen has always loved fine arts and has been considered a remarkable painter when she was still a princess. Then came the love for the Tolkien saga. She read for

the first time “The lord of the rings” in 1969 and it became an addiction: «The book hit immediately my imagination. I couldn’t stop reading. And when i finished it, i had to start again. I read it ten times and for two times i read the entire trilogy to my sons Joachim and Frederik». It was natural for her to let her inspiration become an illustration: in 1972 she drew seven big pictures and 57 smaller ones that, five years after, found space in the pages of the first danish edition of the Tolkien saga. She signed the artworks with the fake name of Ingahild Grathmer but when it was clear that the Queen was the author of the illustrations, the book went sold out in a few days.

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Above: the poster of the exhibition. On the left a picture of J. R. R. Tolkien.

In the big pics on the top of the pages, the table game of The Lord of the Rings and a illustration of Angelo Montani. On the previous page: the three illustrations of Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark

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sty’s works. Even if he said more than once that he would have preferred that his books were printed without illustrations, to let the fantasy of the readers work, he saw and appreciated the draws of the Queen of Denmark (even if she sent him the copies under the name of Ingahild Grathmer). And some of them were found among his papers, when he died, with some notes on. In 2002 the same illustrations have been used on a cover of a cd of a danish band, that put

in music the poetries of “The lord of the ring”. And in 2010 Viggo Mortensen, the actor of danish roots that played in the Peter Jackson movie, received the title of “Knight of the Danish flag”, on decision of the Queen.

There’s more than it in the exhibition: the rare first editions of the Tolkien books (in 1937 only 1500 copies of “The Hobbit” were printed), the illustrations of the Hildebrand brothers, of the english Roger Garland and Chris Achilleos, of the italian Angelo Montanini (that drew the poster of the exhibition) and Piero Crida, the masterpieces of dutch Cor Bloc, the first one who dared, in 1960, to put illustrations around the words of Tolkien. About comics, there are many traces of the ways the saga was revisited in a lighter way, even with The Simpsons and the Disney characters as Donald Duck. And, about the six Peter Jackson’s movies that made the story popular in a different way, some curiosities can be seen, as the full-size statue of Gollum.

Around the exhibition, that will be open until Sunday 22, the museum prepared a schedule of extra features. One of them is on Sunday 1: a cosplay meeting with a contest with prizes for the most beautiful (and faithful to the saga spirit) costumes. It will start at 4 pm and, even without a proper dress, it has to be spectacular.

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MORE COMICS THE ITALIAN STYLE CARTOON HAS ITS ROOTS IN MILAN

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ou might know Tex Willer, the cowboy with the yellow shirt. Or Martin Mystére, the archaeologist that came a few years before Indiana Jones.

Or Dylan Dog and his investigations between parapsychology and horror stories. You might not imagine that they are all italian. And they all come out from the same comic books publisher: Sergio Bonelli Editore is based in Milan and marked the history of italian style strips, since the founder Gian Luigi Bonelli started to put adventures on paper.

He created Tex Willer, his most famous character: the first illustrated book was published in 1948 and is still on for a huge number of fans.

The larger base of faithful readers is in Italy, but in Spain, France and Brazil (for example) the cowboy that opened the italian way of Western stories decades before Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, has conquered a huge public. Sergio Bonelli Editore (after the name of the son of Gian Luigi) publishes also Martin Mystére and Dylan Dog, that achieved both international success as their creators Alfredo Castelli and Tiziano Sclavi. Another italian-born character is Diabolik, the thief with the black mask created in early 60ies by the Milan sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani. Fifty years after the first story, Diabolik is knowing an unexpected fame in India. But italian cartoons tradition has more to offer on different styles: Bruno Bozzetto is a cartoon animator that produces movies since 60ies with political and satyrical themes. And the simple style of hilarious La Linea, the character created by Osvaldo Cavandoli, and of its short stories have been broadcast in many countries all over the world as an interlude between two shows. The funny thing is that La Linea speaks an invented language inspired by Milanese slang.

And nobody ever dared to dub it.

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THE CITY ON NY TIMES PLACES TO VISIT IN 2015: MILAN TOPS THE LIST

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f you are reading this, you are in Milan and you probably already know what New York Times meant: the Usa-based daily picked up the 52 places to go in 2015 and listed them, as in a chart. And Milan is in the number one position, right above Cuba and Philadelphia, because it is ÂŤthe most vibrant city of ItalyÂť.

Of course there is an additional reason to consider Milan a special place to be in this particular year: the 2015 World Expo, ready to start in May, is an additional boost of interest for any visitor. About 20 million tourists are expected to reach the city to see the world exposition, that will be hosted in a very big (and almost entirely new) complex of modern buildings in the area of Rho-Fiera, in the North-Western side of Milan. But

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they will find much more than the 60 pavilions dedicated to food with exhibitors from the 130 participating nations.

A RENEWED LOOK That’s because the whole city is revamping its image even in the older and more historical neighborhoods, and not only in the newest area of Expo 2015.

The Darsena, as New York Times underlines, is the place where the river harbor of Milan used to be: it will be very soon one of the best places to be for the quiet and warm evenings of spring time, with promenades, bike paths and no cars around. Even the Duomo majestic facade is now all white and clean, sparkling with the pure brightness of marbles. Milan is also a path for good food: Ingrid K. Williams, NY Times reporter that visited (and liked) the city, writes of remarkable restaurants that offer not only Lombard style of cooking but also products from other italian regions, like the Genoa specialities as farinata (a kind of flat bread made with chickpea wheat) or pasta al pesto, the basil and cheese green sauce at UBarba, not so far from Porta Romana, or the true neapolitan pizza of Lievito Madre, close to piazza Duomo.

«Put simply, there’s new energy coursing through cosmopolitan Milan, and it’s likely to last long after the Expo» states NY Times in another report on the city. The weekly column “36 Hours” imagines an itinerary in a place in just a weekend of time. And in January one of the stops has been Milan. The go-

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od ideas for visitors spread from shopping to food, from art to architecture.

For example, a hotspot for fashion is Zona Tortona, a former industrial area southwest of the city centre.

This is the place for creativity experiments: if in the “quadrilatero” around via Montenapoleone there are the consolidated and worldwide famous brands of luxury, Zona Tortona hosts the emerging fashion designers, as sardinian young star Antonio Marras.

But fashion is also history of styles: and the right place to be becomes “Cavalli e Nastri”, a brand specialized in vintage clothing and accessories with two shops in via Mora (a short walk from Colonne di San Lorenzo) and in via Brera.

SEARCHING FOR HIDDEN JEWELS Architecture jewels can be hidden in unexpected places: on Saturday, when the majority of offices are closed and quiet, there’s the chance to get a closer view on the majestic buildings of the bank district, not forgetting the Gallerie d’Italia Piazza Scala complex, three “palazzi” that now are an exhibition place for artworks, under the supervision of Intesa San Paolo banking group. And, about churches, there’s more than the magnificent Duomo: Sant’Ambrogio, at first, but also San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, with its frescoes from 16th-century, and Santa Maria presso di San Satiro, where the abse has been built after a study on forced perspective of Donato Bramante, the same architect of San Pietro church in Rome.

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ART UNTIL SUNDAY 8 WALTER BONATTI, LIFE OF AN EXPLORER Walter Bonatti has been a famous alpinist, photographer, reporter and explorer in 20th Century. His pictures, witnessing hos travels all around the world, are displayed in an exhibition in Palazzo della Ragione..

Where and when: Palazzo della Ragione, piazza dei Mercanti, Milano.

MM1-MM3 Duomo, MM1 Cordusio.

Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9,30 am8,30 pm; Thursday and Saturday 9,30 am-10,30 pm, closed on Mondays. Info: www.palazzodellaragionefotografia.it FROM THURSDAY 12 THE ART OF LOMBARDY AT PALAZZO REALE A celebration to the reigning families of Milan and to their love of art: Palazzo Reale will host an exhibition that displays some of the masterpieces collected in the years of the Visconti and Sforza domination of the city. A similar exhibition had great success in 1958.

Where&When Palazzo Reale, piazza del Duomo 12, Milano, MM1/ MM3 Duomo. Opening hours: Monday 2,30 pm-7,30 pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9,30 am-7.30 pm; Thursday and Saturday 9,30 am-10,30 pm. Info: www. turismo.milano.it UNTIL SUNDAY 15 AMERICAN POP ART WITH STEVE KAUFMAN He helped Andy Warhol in his works after having learned art from him: Steve Kaufman is one of the loud voices of Pop Art and of contemporary american art. The exhibition dedicated to his artworks is open until March 15..

Where&When Barbara Frigerio Contemporary Art Gallery, via Dell’Orso 12, Milano. MM. Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am-1 pm and 4 pm-7,30 pm. Sunday 11 am-7 pm. Info: www.barbarafrigeriogallery.com

UNTIL SUNDAY 8 VAN GOGH AND THE NATURE AT PALAZZO REALE The strong relationship between an artist and nature: this is the main theme of the exhibition “Van Gogh, l’uomo e la terra”, hosted in Palazzo Reale, in the heart of Milan. The exhibition shows almost 50 of the masterpieces of the dutch painter.

Where&When Palazzo Reale, piazza del Duomo 12, Milano, MM1/MM3 Duomo. Opening hours: Monday 2,30 pm-7,30 pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9,30 am-7.30 pm; Thursday and Saturday 9,30 am10,30 pm. Info: www.vangoghmilano.it

UNTIL SUNDAY 15 FONTANA AND KLEIN BETWEEN MILAN AND PARIS Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein have been prominent artists and good friends: they tied a link between Milan and Paris in the late 1950s, working together for projects and exhibitions. Together, as they are now in Museo del Novecento.

Where&When Museo del Novecento, Palazzo dell’Arengario, via Marconi 1, Milano, MM1/MM3 Duomo. Opening hours: Monday 2,30 pm-7,30 pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9,30 am-7,30 pm; Thursday and Saturday 9,30 am-10,30 pm. Info: www.museodelnovecento.org FRIDAY 20 A GUIDED VISIT TO THE BRANCA DISTILLERIES Branca is a Milan-based brand that made history in Italy about drinks

and spirits. In the old factory now there’s also a museum. A chance to visit the old collection of advertising posters and machineries to produce the drinks, is offered by a guided visit scheduled for Friday 20.

Where&When Museo Collezione Branca, via Resegone 2, MIlano.

MM3 Maciachini. Scheduled time: 3 pm. Info: www.visiteguidatemilano.it UNTIL SUNDAY 22 THE LORD OF THE RINGS, A TRIBUTE TO TOLKIEN This exhibition is a must for the many J.R.R. Tolkien fans: at Wow museum, the Milan space committed to comics, a collection of pieces inspired by The Lord of the Rings will be displayed, showing the way words became draws and, then, movies. For the first time in Italy, the exhibition will show also

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the illustrations of Margaret, the Queen of Denmark, drawn for the edition of the book in 1977.

Where&When Wow Spazio Fumetto, viale Campania 12, Milano, S1-S2-S5-S6-S13 Porta Vittoria.

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday 3 pm-7 pm; Saturday and Sunday 3 pm-8 pm. Info: www.museowow.it UNTIL SUNDAY 22 BRAMANTE AS A PAINTER AT PINACOTECA DI BRERA Donato Bramante is probably more known as an architect: in Renaissance years, he projected the renewal of Sant’Ambrogio church in Milan and his designs guided the works for the San Pietro church in Rome. But he was also a painter: and this side of his artist life is under the spotlight in the exhibition of Pinacoteca di Brera.

Where&When Pinacoteca di Brera, via Brera 28, Milano. MM2 Lanza-Brera-Piccolo Teatro . Opening hours: form Tuesday to Sunday 8,30 am-7,15 pm. Closed on Monday. Info: www.mostrabramantemilano.it UNTIL SUNDAY 22 THE BLACK AND WHITE PICS OF VANESSA WINSHIP Fondazione Stelline will host until Sunday 22 a collection of 100 pictures of Vanessa Winship. Born in 1960 in Britain,she’s been the first woman to win the prize of Fondation Cartier-Bresson. Her portrai-

ts tell the story of the way 20th century changed the cultural key points in a globalized world.

Where&When Fondazione Stelline, corso Magenta 61, Milano. MM1MM2 Cadorna-Triennale. Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday 10 am-8 pm. Info: www.stelline.it SATURDAY 28 A HOUSE MUSEUM WITH A ART COLLECTION The house museum Boschi-Di Stefano has been built in 30ies and has hosted, because of the passion of the owners Antonio Boschi and Marieda Di Stefano, art masterpieces from the 20th century. About 300 artworks of their big collection donated to the Milan municipality are still displayed in the house, built after the design of architect Piero Portalupi. A visited guide is scheduled for Saturday 28.

Where&When Casa Museo Boschi-Di Stefano, via Jan 15, Milano.

MM1 Lima. Scheduled time: 3 pm.

Info: www.fondazioneboschidistefano.it UNTIL SUNDAY 29 PICTURES FROM THE WORLD OF AGRICULTURE Silvestre Loconsolo is an italian photographer that committed his life to take portraits of working people. This exhibition, in preparation to Expo 2015, will show farmers from all over the world in photographies taken between 1960 and 1990. Entrance is free.

Where&When Museo del Risorgimen-

UNTIL APRIL 6 A TRIP TO NOVARA FOR THE BIRTH OF ART “In principio” analyzes the beginning of the unverse and of art in human history: an ambitious goal for the exhibition, set in the monumental museum of Broletto, in Novara, 50 kms West of Milan. The exhibition hosts artworks of Guercino, Galilei, Fontana, Boetti.

Where&When Broletto, via Rosselli 20, Novara.

By train: about 30 mins from Centrale or Garibaldi station. Opening hours: Monday 9 am-1 pm, from Tuesday to Sunday 9 am-7 pm.

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to, Palazzo Moriggia, via Borgonuovo 23, Milano, MM1 Montenapoleone.

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday 9 am-1 pm and 2 pm-5,30 pm. Info: www.museodelrisorgimento.mi.it UNTIL SUNDAY 29 JOSEPH CONRAD AND HIS FEW DAYS IN ITALY

It was 1914, one century ago, when the polish-born writer Joseph Conrad was forced to stop in Italy: in those days World War I was declared while he was in Milan. He was forced to stay hidden because of his british citizenship, a problem in the times when Italy considered Great Britain a enemy. But after a while in Milan, he could reach Genoa and then get on a neutral boat that took him back to english shores. Now Milan celebrates those days and the adventures of the writer-sailor with an exhibition that shows pictures, paintings, details of some of his letters. With the entry ticket visitors can see

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also the city aquarium.

Where&When Acquario Civico e Stazione Idrogeologica, viale Gadio 2, Milano, MM2 Lanza. Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday 9,30 am-1 pm and 2 pm-5,30 pm.

Info: www.acquariocivicomilano.eu UNTIL TUESDAY 31 THE PARADOX OF TONY CRAGG HOSTED IN THE DUOMO Tony Cragg is the english sculptor chosen to make an installation inside the Duomo cathedral, under the eyes of believers and visitors. The choice to open the doors to contemporary art is a gift for the thousands of visitors of the church. The installation of the Liverpool-born artist is entitled “Paradosso” (paradox).

Where&When Duomo cathedral, piazza Duomo, Milano. MM1-MM3 Duomo. Opening hours: every day 7 pm-7 pm. Info: www.duomomilano.it UNTIL 4/6 STEVE MCCURRY AT THE VILLA REALE

Just a few kilometres northbound of Milan, Villa Reale in Monza is a wonderful location and also a cultural centre with plenty of exhibitions. The main one, in these weeks, is dedicated to Steve McCurry, the photographer and journalist famous for his portraits and for a iconic cover of National Geographic Magazine, that displays a afghan girl with blue eyes, hosted in a refugee camp in the years of the afghan war against the soviets.

Where&When Villa Reale, viale Brianza 1, Monza (Mb). S9: Monza.

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday 10 am-6 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am-7 pm, closed on Monday. Info: www.mostrastevemccurry.com

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UNTIL 4/30 THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL EXPOSITIONS Milan is waiting for may, when Expo 2015 will start. To get ready for the event, the museum of science and technology has built up an exhibition about the history of universal exhibitions all over the world. The title of the event is “Exponendo” Where&When Museo della scienza e della tecnologia, via San Vittore 21, Milano, MM1 Sant’Ambrogio.

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday 9,30 am-5 pm; Saturday and Sunday 9,30 am-18,30 pm. Info: www.museoscienza.org UNTIL 5/1 CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE UNIVERSITY Bocconi University, probably the most famous italian college for economic studies, has also a project to promote contemporary art. The 2014 edition of Bag (Bocconi Art Gallery) rehunites 100 masterpieces of 60 artists from all over the world. And the access is free.

Where&When Università Bocconi, via Sarfatti 25, Milano, MM3 Porta Romana. Opening hours: from Monday to Saturday 8 am-8 pm.

Info: www.unibocconi.it/bag UNTIL 5/10 CÉLINE CONDORELLI, THE ART IS PERFORMANCE Céline Condorelli, born in 1974, is a contemporary artist that lives and works between Uk and Italy: Hangar Bicocca in Milan will host her first personal exhibition in Italy. Among the viewable works, there will be also a site specific installation created with the help of technologic pole Pirelli of Settimo Torinese.

Where&When HangarBicocca, via Chiese 2, Milano, MM5 Ponale.

Opening hours: from Thursday to Sunday 11 am-11 pm. Info: www.hangarbicocca.org UNTIL 6/28 FOOD, HOW A SEED BECOMES A FRUIT “Food” is an exhibition linked to nature: in the Museo di Storia Naturale of Milan (natural history museum), visitors will discover in deep how the products of agricul-

ture become food. The exhibition highlights in a more detailed way science and biodiversity. Videos, games and laboratories are especially studied for children.

Where&When Museo di Storia Naturale, corso Venezia 55, Milano. MM1 Palestro. Opening hours: Monday 9,30 am-1,30 pm, Yuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9,30 am-7,30 pm; Thursday 9,30 am-10,30 pm. Info: www.mostrafood.it UNTIL NOVEMBER 1 THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF MILAN UNDERGROUND

It was november 1, 1964 when the first train rolled along the tracks of the line 1 of Milan underground.

The city is celebrating the birthday with an exhibition that highlights the steps of the building of the line, hosted in the offices when the project was drawn dy architects Franco Albini, Bob Noorda and Franca Helg.

Where&When Fondazione Franco Albini, via Telesio 13, Milano. MM1 Pagano-Conciliazione. Only guided visits, reservations calling +3902.4982378 or writing on fondazionefrancoalbini@gmail.com. Info: www.metromilano50.com UNTIL DECEMBER 31 HOW MANHOLE COVERS BECOME PIECES OF ART “Sopra il sotto” is an open air exhibition that’s not new to Milan: a number of the manhole covers of the optical fibre net are decorated and painted by fashion designers and will stay on the walking paths of the city for almost one year.

After the exhibition the manhole covers will be sold for a charity fundraising.

Where&When Via Montenapoleone, via Sant’Andrea, Milan. MM1 Montenapoleone. Info: www.metroweb.it

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SUNDAY 1 FREE ENTRANCE TO THE MUSEUMS Fourteen museums of the city of Milan will not ask for a entry ticket just for one day. This is the concept of “Domenica al museo” (Sunday at the museum), an idea of the Ministry of Culture working in whole Italy. In March the chosen day is Sunday 1.

Where&When In 14 museums of Milan.

Check the list on www.comune.milano.it

THEATRE FROM TUESDAY 17 ROSSY DE PALMA, FROM ALMODOVAR TO THEATRE Piccolo Teatro will host for some days a one-woman-show of Rossy De Palma: the spanish actress, nicknamed “lady Picasso”, is one of the favourites of director Pedro Almodòvar. This time she will be alone on stage, for a play called “Resilience of love”, in italian and spanish, with original texts and verses from the poetres of Federico Garcia Lorca.

Where&When Piccolo Teatro, via Rivoli 6, Milano. MM2 Lanza-Brera-Piccolo Teatro. Scheduled time: Tuesday 17, Thursday 19 and Saturday 21 at 7,30 pm, Wednesday 18 and Friday 20 at 8,30 pm, Saturday 22 at 4 pm. Info: www. piccoloteatro.org WED 18 AND THU 19 THE VISUAL POETRY OF CAROLYN CARSON Between dance and theatre, between words and music: this is the style of the performances guided by the choreographer Carolyn Carson. Her last show, “Now”, will stop in Milan for two nights.

Where&When Teatro degli Arcimboldi, viale dell’Innovazione 20, Milano. S9 Greco Pirelli. Scheduled time 9 pm. Info: www.teatroarcomboldi.it FROM FRIDAY 20 CHINA, 5000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN A DANCE SHOW A long walk through 5000 years of history and tradition: this is the

goal of the new show of Shen Yun, chinese artist that will bring to Milan a performance made of dance and music.

Where&When Teatro degli Arcimboldi, viale dell’Innovazione 20, Milano. S9 Greco Pirelli. Scheduled time: Friday 20 and Saturday 21 at 8,30 pm, Sunday 22 at 4 pm. Info: www.teatroarcomboldi.it SATURDAY 21 ILLUSIONISM NIGHT WITH THE LIFE OF HOUDINI A biography of Henry Houdini, probably the most famous illusionist ever, on stage: this is the purpose of the show hosted at Teatro della Luna, in Assago (near the Mediolanum Forum), starring the italian illusionist Antonio Casanova. The tithe of the show is “Aenigma”.

Where&When Teatro della Luna, via Giuseppe di Vittorio 6, Assago, Milano. MM3 Assago-Forum-Milanofiori. Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. teatrodellaluna.it FROM THURSDAY 26 ENERGY ON STAGE WITH PARSONS DANCE Energy and acrobatics are the key words of any performance of Parsons Dance. The group is back in Italy with a performance that highlights some pieces of their rich repertory.

Where&When Teatro degli Arcimboldi, viale dell’Innovazione 20, Milano. S9 Greco Pirelli. Scheduled time: Thursday 26, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 at 9 pm. Info: www. teatroarcomboldi.it

MUSIC FROM SUNDAY 1 AIDA WITH ZUBIN MEHTA AT TEATRO ALLA SCALA

Aida is one of the most famous and spectacular operas of Giuseppe Verdi. The love story of the Ethiopian slave and the egyptian Prince is back on stage at Teatro alla Scala, with the orchestra and the choir conducted by Zubin Mehta. German-Italian maestro Peter Stein is the director. Kristen Lewis is Aida and Fabio Sartori is Radamés. The opera will be repeated three times in March.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: on Sunday 1 at 11 am, on Wednesday 11 at 8 pm, on Sunday 15 at 5 pm. Info: www.teatroallascala.org SUNDAY 1 THE DECEMBERISTS, ROCK FOLK FROM OREGON The Decemberists are a rock-folk band on tour after having published their last album “What a terrible

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world, what a beautiful world”. They chose a curious wy to promote their work: an acoustic session in the streets of New York, singing along all the new songs. The same songs will be at the centre of the Milan concert, the first one after eight years.

Where&When Magazzini Generali, via Pietrasanta 6, Milano. Tram line 24. Info: www.magazzinigenerali.it SUNDAY 1 ROMANTIC BACH AT THE AUDITORIUM The season of concerts of Fondazione LaVerdi has added some special musical evenings dedicated to Johan Sebastian Bach. The cycle “Romantic Bach” will feature for one night Massimiliano Motterle (piano) and Fulvio Luciani (violin).

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 11,30 am. Info: www.laverdi.org SUNDAY 1 MUSIC AT LUNCHTIME WITH RAN BLAKE

Ran Blake is one of the most influencing musicians in american contemporary music: he is a pianist and a teacher at New England Conservatory of Boston. More than all, he is an oustanding voice of jazz and musical improvisation. He will be in Italy for only one concert, at lunchtime, on Sunday 1. Blake will play with Aaron J. Harley (trombone) and Eden MacAdam-Somer (violin).

Where&When Teatro Manzoni, via Manzoni 48. MM3 Montenapoleone. Scheduled time: 11 am. Info: www.teatromanzoni.it SUNDAY 1 THE MAGIC TRUMPET OF AVISHAI COHEN Born in Tel Aviv, in Israel, but established in New York, Avishai

SATURDAY 7 MORRICONE, THE MAESTRO AND HIS MUSIC He is 86 years old but energy and love for music are always beside him: Ennio Morricone, the italian musician that wrote the soundtracks of dozens of iconic movies (The Mission, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, the “spaghetti-western” of director Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood as main actor). On February he started a world tour with an orchestra of 100 musicians and a choir of 85 singers. A kolossal concert that stops in Milan for one night, for all music and movies lovers.

Where&When Mediolanum Forum, via Giuseppe Di Vittorio 6. Assago, Milano.

MM2 Assago-Milanofiori-Forum. Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www.mediolanumforum.it

Cohen is considered one of the most skilled trumpet players in the world of jazz. His last album, Dark Nights, has been recorded in only one day without preliminary sessions. On the Blue Note stage he will play alongside with Yoni Zeinik (bass) and Justin Brown (drums).

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com TUESDAY 3 ALFREDO GOLINO AND HIS DRUMS Blue Note will host a concert of Alfredo Golino, one of the most famous “session drummers” of italian jazz. He will play the songs of his last album “Just play life”, where there’s a very special featuring of italian pop legend Mina.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com

WEDNESDAY 4 HORROR ROCK FROM FINLAND: LORDI IN CONCERT Lordi is a finnish hard and heavy rock band famous for their live shows, inspired to the horror movies. Every musician has a stage name and has always been pictured with a fancy monster dress.

Their powerful music guaranteed them a long career, since first shows in 1996. Their last album is entitled Scare Force One. Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

WEDNESDAY 4 MARK LANEGAN, THE OUTLAW OF ROCK IN MILAN He founded the band Screaming Trees, whose works are the roots of grunge movement. He worked with the Queens of the Stone Age. And his voice, rough and hoarse, makes of him “the last outlaw of

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rock” (as The Guardian stated).

Mark Lanegan is on tour in Europe and has planned a stop in Milan, too. A gig that can’t be missed.

Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

FROM THURSDAY 5 A CONCERT DEDICATED TO MOZART The symphonic orchestra of Fondazione LaVerdi will be on stage for a concert dedicated to the musico of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Olli Mustonen will be the conductor.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano.

Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: Thursday 5 at 8,30 pm, Friday 6 at 8 pm, Sunday 8 at 4 pm. Info: www. laverdi.org THURSDAY 5 AND THURSDAY 12 CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH FREE ENTRANCE The ensemble Giorgio Bernasconi of the Teatro alla Scala academy will perform on the main Milan theatre stage for a concert where no tickets are needed. The conductor is Renato Volta. The free entrance is granted also one week later, where the stage will host the performance of the young soloists of the Academy for Opera singers and of the Bolshoy young artist Opera Program.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: 5 pm.

Info: www.teatroallascala.org FROM FRIDAY 6 CELLO SUITES, DANCE ON THE MUSIC OF BACH “Cello suites (In den Winden im Nichts) is the title of the show scheduled on March at Teatro alla Scala. Choreographer Heinz Spörli drew a dance performance on the baroque music of the “suites” of Johan Sebastian Bach, building up a tribute to the forces of nature, earth, water and fire. Massimo Polidori and Sandro Laffranchini will play cello during the performance of the ballet of Teatro alla Scala.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled times: Friday 6, Tuesday 10 and Friday 13 at 8 pm,

Saturday 7 at 2,30 pm, Thursday 19 at 3 pm. Info: www.teatroallascala.org SATURDAY 7 CLASSICAL MADE IN ITALY WITH FONDAZIONE LAVERDI

“Made in Italy” is a cycle of concerts of Fondazione LaVerdi dedicated to italian composers. On Saturday 7 the concert is dedicated to Franco Alfano. There also will be music of Pietro Mascagni and Carl Nielsen.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 6,30 pm. Info: www.laverdi.org SATURDAY 7 FKA TWIGS, R’N’B FROM ENGLAND Fka twigs is the stage name of Tahliah Debrett Barnett, a former backstage dancer for Kylie Minogue and Ed Sheeran live shows whose true talent was in her voice and in her rhythm ’n blues style.

Daughter of a jazz dancer and of a gymnast, Fka twigs published on YouTube her first tracks on 2012.

Her single “Water me” brought her to success and her first album has been nominated for Mercury Prize.

He broke the news on the gossip pages too, since she dated the Twilight movie star Robert Pattinson.

Where&When Fabrique, via Fantoli 9, Milano. Scheduled time: 9 pm.

Info: www.fabriquemilano.it SUNDAY 8 DADO MORONI & MAX IONATA, A TRIBUTE TO STEVIE WONDER Dado Moroni and Max Ionata are a duo of jazz musicians that love the tributes to great artists. After a concert dedicated to Duke Ellington, their “Two for Stevie” is dedicated to the songs of Stevie Wonder.

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Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com SUNDAY 8 CLASSICAL MUSIC AT TEATRO ARCIMBOLDI Myung-Whun Chung will conduct the Filarmonica della Scala orchestra in this concert scheduled at Teatro degli Arcimboldi. In the program, music of Brahms and Mendelssohn.

Where&When Teatro degli Arcimboldi, viale dell’Innovazione 20, Milano. S9 Greco Pirelli. Scheduled time 8 pm. Info: www.teatroarcomboldi.it SUNDAY 8 TWO HARPS ON STAGE AT THE AUDITORIUM The harps played by Elena Piva and Marta Pettoni will be under the spotlight for this particular concert of chamber music, with compositions of Gounod, Franck, Damase, Cardon, Debussy, Thomas and Bizet.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 11,30 am. Info: www.laverdi.org SUNDAY 8 AND SUNDAY 29 CINDERELLA, OPERA REWRITTEN FOR CHILDREN One of the special goals of Teatro alla Scala management is to get younger people closer to opera and classical music. With this purpose, on the 20142015 season, theres’s a show called “Cinderella for children”. It’s a version rewritten and made suitable for kids of the opera “Cenerentola” (Cinderella) of italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: 4 pm.

Info: www.teatroallascala.org MONDAY 9 ALL TIME LOW, PUNK ENERGY FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN– All Time Low are Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Zack Merrick and Rian Dawson, four guys from Maryland that created a pop punk band famous for its all year long tours.

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Their new european tour, a pause in the work for the new album, has a stop in Milan, too.

Where&When Fabrique, via Fantoli 9, Milano. Scheduled time: 9 pm.

Info: www.fabriquemilano.it MONDAY 9 SAM SMITH, A STAR IS BORN IN THE BRITISH POP SCENE Sam Smith has been one of the surprising musicians of 2014: his album “In the lonely hour” has ben sold (or downloaded) two million times. And the video of his single “Stay with me” has been player 80 million times on YouTube. The british artist will be in Milan for a date of his spring tour.

Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

TUESDAY 10 THE BIG ONE, DOUBLE SHOW FOR A PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE The Big One is an italian musical project that will be on stage at Blue Note for a very special night.

The two parted show is a long tribute to the music of Pink Floyd.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com WEDNESDAY 11 BAROQUE MUSIC OF JEAN-FERY REBEL LaBarocca is an ensemble of Fondazione LaVerdi that enhances

the fame of Baroque music. Conducted by Ruben Jais, the orchestra will play music of Jean-Féry Rebel.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 8 pm.

Info: www.laverdi.org THURSDAY 12 ARCHIVE AT ALCATRAZ, A TRIP HOP NIGHT Archive are one of the voices of electronic and trip hop music since 1996: their first album caught the attention of Peter Gabriel. Since a few years, the band has become a collective of musicians guided by the founders Danny Griffiths and Darius Keeler. Their last work is Restrictions, whose songs will be the core of their Milan concert.

Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

THURSDAY 12 THE LEGENDARY JOAN BAEZ FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN With more than 50 years of career, Joan Baez is one of the most iconic rock-folk voices of the history of music. She will be back in Milan for one night, with a performance that will celebrate her long years of love with music and audience.

Where&When Teatro degli Arcimboldi, viale dell’Innovazione 20, Milano. S9 Greco Pirelli. Scheduled time 9 pm. Info: www.teatroarcomboldi.it

SUNDAY 22 CARMEN OF BIZET AT TEATRO ALLA SCALA Carmen is for sure the most famous opera of french composer Georges Bizet. Teatro alla Scala decided to put it in the program of the 20142015 season. The premiere is scheduled for Sunday 22, with Massimo Zanetti as conductor and Emma Dante as director. José Cura will perform as Don José and Elina Garanca as Carmen.

Where and when: Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: Sunday 22, Tuesday 24 and Friday 28 at 8 pm. Info: www.teatroallascala.org

THURSDAY 12 CARMEN SOUZA, A NIGHT WITH WORLD MUSIC Carmen Souza, born in Capo Verde and raised in Portugal, is one of the prominent singers of the so-called world music. Her last album is called Katchupada and will be at the center of her Milan concert.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com FRIDAY 13 AND SATURDAY 14 A TRIBUTE NIGHT FOR FRANK SINATRA Nick the Nightfly is a musician and radio entertainer born in Scotland that loves to celebrate music in his radio shows and in the concerts and performances with his band. The show of there two Milan nights is completely committed to Frank Sinatra and his songs. Dress code: tuxedo for gentlemen and evening gown for ladies.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. and 11 pm Info: www.bluenotemilano.com FROM FRIDAY 13 PROKOFIEV, MOZART AND THE PIANO OF CARCANO Gabriele Carcano will be the piano soloist in this concert of the symphonic season of Fondazione LaVerdi. On the program, music of Sergei Prokofiev and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The orchestra is conducted by Fawzi Haimor.

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Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: Friday 13 at 8 pm, Sunday 15 at 4 pm. Info: www.laverdi.org SATURDAY 14 AND TUESDAY 17 LUCIO SILLA, A MOZART OPERA AT TEATRO ALLA SCALA Lucio Silla is a opera of Wolfgang Amadeus Mosart inspired by Roman history: SIlla was a dictator of Rome during the civil war of the 1st Century b.C. Mozart composed the music when he was only 17. Mark Minkowski, the conductor, is at his first time at La Scala, while Marshall Pynkoski is the director.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: 8 pm.

Info: www.teatroallascala.org SATURDAY 14 FORGET OASIS, NOEL GALLAGHER PLAYS ALONE He marked a decade of pop-rock music with Oasis, the band he founded with his brother Liam. Now Noel Gallagher has a solist career: you might know his name but not his last songs. The new album is set to come out on March 2. And the tour starts right after. One of the first dates is in Milan: his supporting band is called High Flying Birds.

Where&When Fabrique, via Fantoli 9, Milano. Scheduled time: 9 pm.

Info: www.fabriquemilano.it SATURDAY 14 HOW CLASSICAL MUSIC DESCRIBES NATURE Nature is the topic of this concert scheduled in the season of Fondazione LaVerdi. The orchestra conducted by Adriano Barbieri-Torriani wil play music inspired by nature, as La Primavera of Antonio Vivaldi or “Morning” from Edvard Grieg “Peer Gynt”.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 4 pm.

Info: www.laverdi.org SUNDAY 15 CHAMBER MUSIC WITH A SOLOIST GUITAR Eugenio Della Chiara is the soloist

guitar player in this concert of the chamber season of Fondazione LaVerdi. He will perform music of Scarlatti, Chailly, Paganini, Galante, De Falla, Castelnuovo Tedesco.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 11,30 am. Info: www.laverdi.org FROM MONDAY 16 GEORGES PRÊTRE, 90 YEARS: A BIRTHDAY ON STAGE

Georges Prêtre, born in France 90 years ago, is probably one of the most famous and appreciated conductors on contemporary music scene. He will celebrate his birthday doing what he loves most: on stage in front of a orchestra. For a week and for three performances he will conduct the Teatro alla Scala orchestra, performing the n.

8 Symphony of Anton Bruckner.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: Moday 16, Wednesday 18 and Saturday 21 at 8 pm. Info: www.teatroallascala.org TUESDAY 17 TOKIO HOTEL, THE ONLY CONCERT IN ITALY They used to be a boy-band, but now the four musicians born in Germany are grown and their music too: the new album “Kings of Suburbia” came out in October and gave them the chance to start a world tour. The first part of the tour is focused on clubs, as Fabrique, that will host the only italian date of the spring.

Where&When Fabrique, via Fantoli 9, Milano. Scheduled time: 9 pm.

Info: www.fabriquemilano.it TUESDAY 17 AND WEDNESDAY 18 SPYRO GYRA, 40 YEARS COMMITTED TO JAZZ-FUSION It will be like a special event: Spyro Gyra, the Buffalo-based band that

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celebrates forty years of success, will stop in Milan for two nights.

The show will be at the Blue Note, with two performances per night.

With 30 published albums, they are always guided by the founder Jay Beckenstein.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm and 11 pm.

Info: www.bluenotemilano.com.

THURSDAY 19 MYLES SANKO, THE LOVE CHILD OF SOUL MUSIC Myles Sanko has been called “the loce child of soul music” on the magazine Time Out. For sure, he is one of the newest and more successful voices of soul music. Sanko will play in Milan with a bando of eight musicians, for only one night.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. bluenotemilano.com FROM THURSDAY 19 SYMPHONIC SEASON WITH IVAN MARTIN AT THE PIANO Ivan Martin as piano soloist and Roberto Polastri as conductor of the symphonic orchestra of FOndazione LaVerdi will be on stage for this concert based on music of Debussy, Mozart and Schubert-Maderna..

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: Thursday 19 at 8,30 pm, Friday 20 at 8 pm, Sunday 22 at 4 pm. Info: www. laverdi.org FRIDAY 20 A TRIBUTE CONCERT TO JEFF BUCKLEY Twenty years after his only album “Grace” was published, Milan dedicates a night to tribute the talent of Jeff Buckley. The New York City songwriter, dead in 1997 while he was working at his second long playing, will be remembered through the music and the words of Gary Lucas, the guitar player that inspired Buckley. He will sing with the italian band “Il circolo dei Baccanali”.

Where&When Teatro della Luna, via Giuseppe di Vittorio 6, Assago,

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Symphonic Orchestra of the provinces of Trento and Bolzano, cunducted by Arvo Volmer.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: Friday 27 at 8 pm, Sunday 29 at 4 pm. Info: www.laverdi.org

TUESDAY 24 SPANDAU BALLET, AFTER THE REUNION In the glorious Eighties, Spandau Ballet were, alongside with Duran Duran, the favourite band of italian teenagers. Now they are back, after the reunion of 2010, with a new world tour and their sophisticated pop music, with the iconic front man Tony Hadley.

Where&When Mediolanum Forum, via Giuseppe Di Vittorio 6. Assago, Milano.

MM2 Assago-Milanofiori-Forum. Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www.mediolanumforum.it

Milano. MM3 Assago-Forum-Milanofiori. Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. teatrodellaluna.it FRIDAY 20 AND SATURDAY 21 GINO PAOLI AND DANILO REA, ITALIAN CLASSY MUSIC Gino Paoli, now 80 years old, is probably one of the most famous singers and songwriters of italian music. Danilo Rea is a pianist known all over the world for his jazz performances. They will play together for two nights in Milan, walking through notes of famous (not only) italian songs, like the poetries in music of Fabrizio De André or the translations of the songs of french chansonnier Jacques Brel.

Where&When Blue Note, via Pietro Borsieri, Milano. MM5 Isola.

Scheduled time: 9 pm and 11,30 pm.

Info: www.bluenotemilano.com MONDAY 23 WHEN GREECE INSPIRED MUSICIANS A concert organized with the help of Greek foreign office is scheduled for Tuesday 23 at the Audito-

rium. Alexandros Kapelis will be the piano soloist, performing music exclusively inspired by Greece.

Where&When Auditorium Cariplo, largo Gustav Mahler, Milano. Atm tram, line 3. Scheduled time: 8,30 pm. Info: www.laverdi.org FROM TUESDAY 25 VERDI AND BRUCKNER AT TEATRO ALLA SCALA The orchestra and choir of Teatro alla Scala will be on stage for three consecutive night for a concert with music of Giuseppe Verdi and Anton Bruckner. The conductor is Bruno Casoni.

Where&When Teatro alla Scala, via Filodrammatici 2, Milano. MM1 Duomo-Cordusio. Scheduled time: Tuesday 25, Wednesday 26 and Thurstad 27 at 8 pm. Info: www.teatroallascala.org FROM FRIDAY 27 HAYDN SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA AT THE AUDITORIUM Music of Beethoven, Stravinskij and Schumann is in the program of this concert of the symphonic season of Fondazione LaVerdi.

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SATURDAY 28 FROM IRELAND (AND CHARTS) HERE ARE THE SCRIPT With over 20 million albums sold all around the world and an exhibition also in Oslo on the Nobel prize stage, The Script are one of the top hit bands of the last years. The three Irish musicians are on tour with the songs of their fourth album, “No sound without silence”, published in 2014.

Where&When Mediolanum Forum, via Giuseppe Di Vittorio 6.

Assago, Milano. MM2 Assago-Milanofiori-Forum. Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www.mediolanumforum.it SUNDAY 29 HALESTORM, TWO BROTHERS COMMITTED TO HARD ROCK Halestorm is a hard rock band, created by the Pennsylvania brothers Arejay and “Lzzy” Hale: they were still teenagers when they signed their first contract. Now they are ready for another european tour, with a “sold out” concert in Milan just behind their backs, less than one year ago. The gig will precede of a few days the publishing of their new album.

Where&When Fabrique, via Fantoli 9, Milano. Scheduled time: 8 pm.

Info: www.fabriquemilano.it SUNDAY 29 ROYAL BLOOD, THE BAND LOVED BY JIMMY PAGE When Jimmy Page, the guitarist of Led Zeppelin, sent them his congratulations for having brought rock to an higher level, it was like a gradiation for Royal Blood: the british duo (Mike Kerr, voice and bass, and Ben Thatcher, drums) will be in Milan for a gig at Alcatraz. The supporter band is Bad Breeding, a british punk-rock young band.

Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

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TUESDAY 31 STEEL PANTHER, HEAVY METAL FROM LOS ANGELES Steel Panther are a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, that love music and irony. Their last album is All you can eat, published in April 2014. Some of the tracks of the album will be in the playlist of the Milan gig.

Where&When Alcatraz, via Valtellina 25, Milano. MM3 Maciachini.

Scheduled time: 9 pm. Info: www. alcatrazmilano.it.

LEISURE UNTIL 1/3 ANOTHER ICE PARK TO SKATE UNDER A ROOF The big cultural project for younger people “Inside music outside art” in La Fabbrica del Vapore includes also a big ice park (500 square metres) to skate under a roof, even if it’s raining or snowing. It is open every day and there’s music with dj sets to go along with skating.

Where&When La Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, Milano.

MM2-MM5 Garibaldi. Opening hours: from Monday to Thursday 2 pm-7 pm, Friday 2 pm-7 pm and 8 pm-11 pm, Saturday 10 am-1 pm, 2 pm-7 pm and 8 pm-11 pm, Sunday 10 am-1 pm and 2 pm-7 pm. Info: www. insidemusicoutsideart.com FROM SAT. 7 TO MON. 9 THE VIDEOGAMES SHOW AT MEDIOLANUM FORUM The best italian videogamers, that collect hits on YouTube with the videos of their performances, will be the animators of “VideogameShow”, the fair dedicated to the passion of home and online games. Tournaments for all, exhibitions of the experts and all the new trends about consoles and controllers will be on display for three days.

Where&When Mediolanum Forum, via Giuseppe Di Vittorio 6.

Assago, Milano. MM2 Assago-Milanofiori-Forum. Scheduled time: 10 am-7 pm. Info: www.videogameshow.it

FROM SUNDAY 1 THE SERIE A SCHEDULE OF AC MILAN AND INTER

Inter Milan-Fiorentina will start, Sunday 1, the months of matches at stadio Meazza-San Siro. On Sunday 8 Ac Milan will play at home against Hellas Verona, on Sunday 15 it’s the time of Inter Milan-Cesena and on Sunday 22 Ac Milan will face Cagliari. Check the news to know is some of the games is postponed or anticipated for tv broadcasting.

Where and when: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, piazzale Angelo Moratti, Milano.

MM1 Lotto. Info: www.acmilan.com and www.inter.it

SPORTS FROM SUNDAY 1 THE LEAGUE HOME GAMES OF ARMANI MILANO

Olimpia Milano, now named EA7 Emporio Armani Milano after his owner and sponsor Giorgio Armani, is the most winning team in the history of italian basketball, with 26 leagues and 3 Euroleagues won. In March they will play six times in their home arena, Mediolanum Forum, three times in Euroleage (see below) and three times in the italian league. Here’s the schedule: on Sunday 1 Emporio Armani Milano-Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia, on Sunday 15 Emporio Armani Milano-Openjobmetis Varese, on Sunday

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Where&When Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milano, MM2 Assago Milanofiori Forum. Game schedule: 6,15 pm. Info: www.legabasket.it FROM THURSDAY 5 EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL, MARCH MADNESS FOR MILANO It will be a tough month for EA7 Armani Milano, the basketball team of the city, in the Euroleague challenge. The run to the playoffs of the main basketball competition for clubs in Europe is close to the end. And Forum, the home arena of the “red shoes” (nickname of the team), will host some nice matches.

The first is on Thursday 5: Milano will face greek giants Olympiacos.

On Friday 13, the italian team will play against Unicaja Malaga, from Spain. Another spanish team, Laboral Kutxa Vitoria, is waited in Milan on Thursday 26.

Where&When Where&When Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milano, MM2 Assago Milanofiori Forum. Game schedule: 8,45 pm. Info: www.euroleague.com This schedule has been last updated on Wednesday 18 February

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#LAVIADELLUOMO THE QUIET LUXURY OF THE MENSWEAR STREET

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ia Gesù is at once a luxurious retreat and a busy shopping area»: a few words are enough to Angelo Flaccavento, one of the most influent italian fashion journalists, to paint a vivid picture of the short, narrow and fascinating street in the heart of Milan that’s going to become the gentlemen’s street for shopping. If Via Gesù is the historic official name, it has been recently nicknamed “Via dell’Uomo” (that, on social networks, becomes #viadelluomo). It means “the street of man”, because it’s the road where some major brands of italian menswear fashion have their shops and windows. Shopping is not everything: the street halfway through the arts neighborhood of Brera and the main fashion road via Montenapoleone offers also a charming landscape of old palazzos, most of whom hide behind the facade bright and beautiful gardens. One of them is one of the most famous, quiet and luxurious Milan hotels, the Four Seasons. Another one is a house-museum, the Museo Bagatti-Valsecchi, with a rich collection of paintings, tapestry, scupltures, jevels, glasses and even old musical in-

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struments. The ambiance of via Gesù is so characteristic that the residents are the first defensive line against any project that means to change its style: the “Via Gesù Society” made sure that the street could not turn into a car park. Now, instead of cars, there are flower racks. The street is turning into “Via dell’Uomo” after a project of Pitti Immagine, the main trade event about men’s clothing and accessories.

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LUXURY AND CHARME The same luxurious anc classy products will be behind the windows of the shops in via Gesù, where some of the most famous and loved brands will find a place to show their best.

The consortium of companies and shop owners will enhance the project with special features in the months of Expo 2015. But, before May, every day is good to take some time for a quiet walk along this narrow and silent street, so close to the busy and crowded business roads of the centre of Milan but even so surprisingly relaxing. «It manages to hide everything» adds Angelo Flaccavento «even the hustle and the bustle, behind a pervasive aura of suffused calm. Indeed a quintessentially Milanese quality».

About shopping, via Gesù aspires to be an italian version of the London

Savile Row, a centre for men’s lifestyle.

There are, of course, the clothing and accessories shops: Luciano Barbera (whose founder has been named “the most elegant man in the world”), Kiton (the leading brand born in Naples that recently acquired Luciano Barbera too), Caruso (another Naples brand specialized in tailormade clothing) or Rubinacci, where italian and english style mix up together, Barba for shirts and Barrett, Doucal’s and Silvano Lattanzi for shoes. But there’s also room for the vintage watches of Salvati, for the barber and the cosmetics shop Acqua di Parma and about fine food, here’s the Salumaio di via Montenapoleone, with a restaurant, a café bistrot, a wine cellar and a shop with home made and high quality delicatessen.

THE OLD CONVENT The “Salumaio” is placed within Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi. But it’s the ancient building that hosts Four Seasons hotel (with another fine restaurant and a wonderful spa designed by the famous architect Patricia Urquiola) that gives the name to the street: it’s named via Gesù after the convent of the “Suore di Santa Maria dl Gesù” (the nuns of the order of Saint Mary of Jesus), that was there since 1400.

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KEP ITALIA ITALIAN STYLE AND SKILLS FOR EQUESTRIAN HELMETS

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rumello del Monte is a small town on the outskirts of Bergamo, a few kilometres from Milan. In this town, in 2007, Lelia Polini decided to give life to Kep Italia, a specialized company in the production of equestrian helmets.

«We had the desire to study a more comfortable helmet, safer and more innovative than it was available» says Lelia Polini, «and we wanted that it could be the best helmet on market. To reach the best quality, you must use good materials and you shouldn’t stop at the appearance. In fact there are lots of differences that you can’t grasp at one glance and only the use of technology, excellent raw materials, quality control and production lots, allow you to track every single helmet, can make an higher quality product».

A LONG EXPERIENCE Lelia Polini has a background of other experiences in the field of accessories for horse riding: «I have worked with this kind of companies for several years but I felt the need to go beyond the standards of safety and “aesthetically acceptable”: I wanted to study something more innovative that would meet my expectations as a rider. Comfort, lightness and safety are always our “must”. Our goal was, and is, to go further to be able to give my best to the final consumer. I don’t know if we will reach the “top”, but certainly we will do everything to get this». Certainly, in these years, Kep Italia has achie-

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ved some important results. In terms of research and development, a team composed by experts in the field, is constantly working to propose an increasingly safe product, which uses vanguard materials. The Kep Italia helmets are lighter, to ensure greater comfort when it is worn.

The interior is removable, washable and made of materials that allow maximum breathability; it is also available in 12 different sizes and can be replaced adapting in this way to the growth of the boys. The strap has five fixing points, thus ensures greater stability of the head.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DESIGN The design is very important because aesthetics is what strikes and wins over the audience at first glance. A wide range of fashionable colors, the use of a range of materials such as leather, velvet, python, hard stones, Swarovski crystals create a offer extremely wide and varied. In addition, there is also the possibility to customize the helmet. Another success element of the Lombard company is to realize a product 100% made in Italy.

A clear choice, for two reasons: on the first hand a greater control over the quality of raw materials and the product, but on the other the desire and the will to create jobs and to believe in their own country. «Producing abroad» says Lelia, «could be better in economic terms, but surely we would lose quality, because in

Italy there are excellences, and some craft skills can’t be found elsewhere.

We also believe in our country, we want to help to create jobs and to give a future to the young people».

PARTNERS OF TEAM ITALY There’s also a recent agreement that adds prestige to Kep Italia. In 2014 the Lombard company is security partner of the Italian Federation of Equestrian Sports. The first effects of this agreement have already been seen at the European Championships youth and ponies that have marked the rhythm of summer sport: all the azzurrini involved were protected by the new helmets made specifically for athletes of federal interest.

But it is at the eve of the World Equestrian Championships in Normandy from August 25 to September 7, that the partnership will be made official.

The senior Italian teams involved in the various equestrian disciplines wear, for the first time in a world class event, a helmet with the Italian flag.

The Lombard company also participates at the Winter Equestrian Festival, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Florida. The event, from January 7 to March 29, is the place of confluence for the equestrian american world that represents the ability of jumping and dressage: an audience made up of riders and dynamic operators is curious to see what the market is going to offer in terms of products and solutions.

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FABBRICA EOS THE ART GALLERY COMMITTED TO TALENT

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e don’t care whether our artists have already reached a consolidated market or not. Actually, our job is to give the right value to the energy and the talent of young artists, starting from the idea that artworks can be bought at a right price and that any artwork is the soul landscape of the person who buys it». These few words of Giancarlo Pedrazzini are enough to describe the philosophy of his work and are a good reason to explain why a visit to the contemporary art gallery Fabbrica Eos (www.fabbricaeos.it) in Piazza Baiamonti 2, ignites a spark of interest not only for art experts but also for the enthusiasts that want to give a closer glance to a new world.

In a mixed scenario as the one of Milan, the main italian city for art market and one of the most relevant centres also in a wider international perspective, Fabbrica Eos is one of the few galleries thinking that showing and selling artworks is not enough. The purpose is to help the growth of new talents. Born in 90ies as a trendy gallery open to experimental works, it has respected since the first days the ideas of Giancarlo Pedrazzini, the founder and director: the plan has always been to give particular care to emerging artists without caring where they were born, which kind of art they liked and which of artistic language they preferred. «So far we helped the debut of 64 artists» Pedrazzini says «and all of them are still active and requested in the market».

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The spaces for the exhibitions of Fabbrica Eos are housed in the court of a old hospital closed more than a century ago, in the former garage for the ambulance carriages. It has been recovered showing back the walls made of old bricks, as in the origin. During the years, the gallery hosted the extraeuropean languages of African artists, as Maurus M. Malikita, winner of the first Biennial of Malindi (2007) and Chinese young talents as Zhao Bandi. In other events, the languages of music, design, fashion and art

started a synergic dialogue.

In 1992 Fabbrica Eos hosted the presentation of the album “Us” of Peter Gabriel: the singer and musician became for one time also the curator of an exhibition of artists “Real World”. For the opening of the renewed gallery, the host has been Mimmo Rotella, in collaboration with Pierre Restany, art critic of the Nouveau Realisme. Before the exhibit, Rotella and Pedrazzini presented an art performance in which they ripped posters fron the walls of the streets of Milan.

In these days the gallery hosts the collective exhibition entitled “REW & FFWD”. These are acronyms of “rewind” and “fast forward”. The section REW displays a selection of the past events of the gallery throught the artworks of the artists that started their career at Fabbrica Eos. The section FFWD is dedicated to the most recent artworks of the same artists and an anticipation of the projects for the entire 2015. Among the artists hosted, Giampiero Bodino, Robert Gligorov, Enzo Fiore, Paolo Troilo, Dario Goldaniga, Sara Mongelli and Corrado Levi.

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REW & FFWD: A COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION Fabbrica Eos starts the new year with the collective exhibition REW & FFWD; in the section REW visitors will find a summary of the past works of the gallery, through the artworks of the artists that started their career and showed their works in this gallery. The section FFWD is dedicated to the new: the last artworks of the same artists and an anticipation of the exhibition projects called Milano 2015.

In the previous page: Giancarlo Pedrazzini at Arte Fiera 2015; From left: Robert Gligorov, Piazza Duomo 2007;; Manuel Felisi “Flowers”, 2010; Roses & Shaokun, Bureaucratic beauty; Sara Mongelli, punti di svista 2008/2014; Above: “REW&FFWD” group show, March 2015

REW & FFWD Viexable until Sunday 28 ve languages, but are linked because all of them found in Fabbrica Eos the right place to display their works. «As a hotel concierge works to give to the hosts a pleasant stay, we consider as an essential part of our work the welcome feeling» Pedrazzini highlights. This is the best way to create the ideal environment to let the art lover start a relationship with «an artwork that, in psychoanalitic words, is the mirror of himself». The act of choosing it becomes also a way to «know who we truly are».

ARTISTI IN ESPOSIZIONE Niccolò Biddau, Bodino, Carlo Caldara, Seyni Camara, Marco Circhirillo, Giordano Curreri, Josè D’Apice, Francesco Diluca, Manuel Felisi, Enzo Fiore, Andrea Francolino, Fabio Giampietro, Robert Gligorov, Dario Goldaniga, Omar Hassan, Corrado Levi, Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Sara Mongelli, Lorenzo Nardelli, Sonja Quarone, David Reimondo, Rosfer & Shaokun, Ruggero Rosfer, Dado Schapira, Giovanni Sesia, Troilo

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LUGANO, VIA NASSA THE CHARME OF THE PAST AND THE MODERN GLAMOUR

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ugano, doorway to Europe and first city of the italian region of Switzerland, is the town of parks, flowered gardens and villas and is positioned on a bay on the northern shore of the Lugano lake, surrounded by suggestive landscapes. Thanks to a mild climate and to a typically mediterranean atmosphere, it offers all the advantages of a cosmopolitan city, without losing its spirit of a people-oriented town.

Lugano is an appreciated destination for tourists in spring, when nature wakes up and colors, scents and landscapes drive visitors into relax and calmness. The promenade along the lake ends in the Parco Ciani, a magical place delightfully decorated with camellias, subtropical plants and modern artworks. From the top of the mountains San Salvatore and Bré, that overlook the city, the view is magnificent on the lake and the surrounding mountains, a perfect place for hitchhikers thanks to the many naturalistic itineraries. The centre of the city, with a wide pedestrian zone, the buildings in Lombard style and a rich schedule of events, is a focal point for the interests of arts and shopping lovers.

The beating heart of Lugano is via Nassa, the main commercial street and the historic way of access to the old side of the town. The arcades are one

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HOW TO REACH LUGANO ● By train Lugano is on the Milan-Gottardo-Zurich railroad. There are many trains starting from Milano Centrale daily, for a travel of about 1 hour. ● By car Lugano is 77 kms north of Milan. The motorway Milano-Como becomes A2 when it crosses the Swiss border. Lugano is not so far away

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of the peculiarities of the street and a shelter for visitors since longtime. A shopping tour in via Nassa is an unforgettable experience: here the chic boutiques, the antiquities shops and the luxury jewelleries are side by side with the delicatessen and food shops, mixing the desire for beauty with the passion for taste.

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CLOSE TO THE LAKE Via Nassa is situated in the centre of Lugano and very close to the lake shore.

The street offers the exclusivity and the welcome of the main european brands of shopping. Many international companies have chosen the “street of fishermen” because it can be glamour and traditional at the same time. The fashion labels are enough to offer a wide choice of the best of designers from all over the world, for a careful, expert and top class audience.

In March, while winter is nearly over, Via Nassa starts to paint itself with the shades of spring: the medieval charme of the arcades is revived and enhanced with the vivid colors of the flowers blloming in the big pots that decorate the

street while the windows of the shops catch the attention of any visitor with their new tones of irresistible colors, a boost of energy after the cold months.

The quiet atmosphere balances the electric seduction of the new and sophisticated collections of the fashion brands, an irresistible temptation even for the visitors not so sensitive to the call of the “up-to-the-minute” dresses.

Moreover, Via Nassa hosts many events that give more reasons to the visitors to get into the 414 metres of the shopping street with curiosity. Cars, fashion, art, history, culture, sport and show performances find in Via Nassa an ideal stage to display themselves to a big and interested audience.

THE HISTORY Now we call it Via Nassa, because in origin it was a small neighborhood with the houses of the fishermen built along the hill in front of the lake. The “nassa” is a fish trap, a sort of cage made of wood and other materials intertwined with a breach on one side, shaped as a bottleneck, and a narrower space to the other side, made in a way the fish can easily

get in but can’t go out.

Around years 1000-1100, the city of Lugano was on the main commercial ways of that age. In the same times, the neighborhood of “Nassa” became the hometown of the people involved in businesses linked to the life around the lake.

Many years later, between 1850 and 1900, a complete rebuilding of the area gave birth to luxury palaces and Via

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Nassa started to look the way we see it now. Artisan laboratories and merchant docks left their place to important shops and, in more recent years, to the international brands that have found in Via Nassa a perfect place for their showrooms. Now the street can be consideret a luxury and elegance icon, something that’s not easy to find even in bigger cities.

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NUMBERS 410.000 People visited Leonardo’s work in 2013

2.1 MILLION EURO are the proceeds registered by the museum, the 12th most visited in Italy

40,48 SQUARE M. is the area occupied by the Leonardo Da Vinci painting

880 X 460 CM is the exact size of the painting

1494 is the year in which Leonardo began to paint the work, completed in 1498

22 YEARS is the duration of the last restoration work on the painting, which began in 1977 and concluded in 1999

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ts charm and its history have been boosted by the novel “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown, which has excited millions of readers around the world. But even without this additional literary “assist”, “l’Ultima Cena” by Leonardo da Vinci, painted between 1494 and 1498 on a wall of the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is one of the most famous artworks in the world and one of the steps that nobody can forget during a stay in Milan.

Leonardo’s masterpiece, which represent the dinner during which Jesus announces to his disciples that one of them will betray him before sunrise, is in fact the most reproduced religious painting of all time. It’s a stunning experience to see it live not only for the enormous size, 880 cm wide and 460 cm in height, but also for the unique perspective through which the artist has managed to repro-

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duce the solemnity of an event narrated in all four Gospels.

Commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, called “il Moro”, the work has retained its beauty and charm despite it has begun to show signs of aging since the 16th century.

To achieve it, in fact, Leonardo decided not to use the “cool” technique that would ensure better conservation of the colors, preferring to work with tempera on dry plaster. A choice that soon showed its consequences: the first crack, in the lower left of the painting, appeared in fact as soon as the artist had finished his work.

From then on, the story of L’ultima Cena was studded with recovery interventions more or less easy. The last was completed in 1999 after 22 years of work conducted with the latest scientific methods. This intervention allowed to recover the origi-

nal colors thanks to what is still one of the largest restoration projects ever attempted on an art work.

It’s just to protect the Renaissance artist’s masterpiece that special procedures are necessary to visit the Ultima Cena’s room, needed to ensure the optimal environmental conditions in terms of temperature and humidity for its preservation. To see “L’ultima Cena” is in fact necessary to reserve tickets in advance by calling 02.92800360 or purchasing them online through the site www. cenacolovinciano.net. Access to the refectory is allowed in groups of up to 30 people at a time, from Tuesday to Sunday from 8.15 to 19.

SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE Best known for the presence of Leonardo’s work, the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is actually one of the most impressive monuments of

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the Lombard Renaissance. The church seems to look divided in two, and in fact there is a reason.

The Congregation of Dominican friars, who had received the gift of the land on which the building would be built, commissioned to the architect Guiniforte Solari the construction of a convent. The work began in 1463 and ended in 1469 with the construction of a structure that was articulated around three large cloisters. At the same time the construction of the basilica started too, whose completion took however many more years.

Ludovico Sforza, called Moro, a few years after the church was completed, decided to put there his family mausoleum and the burial place of his wife Beatrice d’Este, who died at young age in 1497. He entrusted the

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work to Donato Bramante asking him to break down the existing structure to make one with more geometric and less severe shapes. Bramante decided to knock down only the facade and the apse, keeping the aisles in the Gothic style.

A few years later, Ludovico il Moro was deposed and the church found itself with a mix of Gothic and Renaissance style. Today, a visit to the Basilica is a must not only for those who face the queues to enter in the Ultima Cena room, but also for those seeking a moment of tranquility from the chaos of the center of Milan. Beyond the beauty of the building and its chapels, the cloister reached from the door on the left of the altar is in fact the ideal place to relax and take a breath, a real corner of paradise.

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MY SUGGESTION ELENA D’ATRI Concierge at Uptown Palace

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etween two of the areas with the greateast tourist appeal of Milan, Porta Nuova with its skyscrapers on one side and Brera with its romantic alleys and full of charm on the other, this neighborhood is likely to pass almost unnoticed. Instead, the area defined by Corso Garibaldi and Via Solferino, easily accessible by Metro (M2 Moscova) is one of the liveliest place in Milan both for shopping, pubs and

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restaurants.

In this area, during the day, you might meet bank employees, stage actors, teachers and students of the Brera Academy, but during the night it changes face. Starting from happy hour, the area is full of young people, college students and managers looking for entertainment.

THE RIGHT PLACE FOR HAPPY HOUR Even without reaching the crowded areas of the Colonne di San Lorenzo and Navigli, La Foppa square is one of the most relevant benchmarks for night life for two Milan generations between 20 and 40 years old. Here, happy hour lovers can choose from the Princi bakery-cafĂŠ, a real institution that accompanies cocktails and beers with a wide selection of pizzas and buns of high quality, and the more elegant and glamorous setting offered by Radetzky Cafe, which attracts trendy clients over 30 and in which is not uncommon to see so-

me football Ac Milan or Inter Milan player and some faces seen in television before.

For those who are looking for a place to have dinner, it’s enough to continue along Corso Garibaldi towards Brera to be spoilt for choice. Traditional Milan restaurants, pizzerias, Japanese and more, guarantee a wide choice for all tastes. And they do it in a setting in which local and fashionable shops are alternate with old shops, stationery shops, bakeries and other neighborhood shops, which help to create the atmosphere of a neighborhood daily lived by its inhabitants.

THE GLAMOUR OF VIA SOLFERINO Most glamorous, perhaps for the presence of the historic building of Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian newspaper that from 1904 occupies the building designed by Luca Beltrami and by the engineer Luigi Repossi, is via Solferino, a parallel road

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very close to Corso Garibaldi. Here the historical clubs, alternate with many new proposals,emerged in recent years, offer in a few hundred metres, a enviable variety: from the Milan tradition to udon, from vegetarian cooking to the American one, to end with the pubs.

Not only this. The district offers a series of attractions that go beyond the small boutiques, furniture,design and fashion stores.

HIDDEN TREASURES This area offers also the Piccolo Teatro created by Giorgio Strehler (www.piccoloteatro.org), one of the most important stages of Milan in via Rivoli 6, and the Basilica of San Simpliciano (www.sansimpliciano.it), one of the most architectural and religious monuments of the city and which houses organ concerts and baroque music. There are also the church of Santa Maria Incoronata (www.santamariaincoronata.

it), a particularly double church at the intersection of Corso Garibaldi and Via Marsala, realized by joining two buildings in differents moments, as you can see from the double facade. The Basilica of San Marco, in the homonym square, still hosts concerts of major musical institutions in Milan and in which in 1874 was celebrated the “Requiem” dedicated to Alessandro Manzoni and directed by Giuseppe Verdi. A neighborhood of great charm, then, in which you can spend a few hours enjoying the treasures of Milan standing outside the most crowded tourist circuits.

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Left: The Piccolo Teatro and the Princi bakery-cafè

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CORRIERE DELLA SERA IN VIA SOLFERINO THE HOUSE OF THE MAIN ITALIAN DAILY

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or 111 years the building at number 28 of Via Solferino has been the house of the Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian newspaper, a symbol of the city. The building of the newspaper has, in its liberty facade, an austere and elegant image that reflects perfectly the authority of the newspaper.

Corriere della Sera moved in via Solferino 28 in the building designed and built by architect Luca Beltrami and engineer Luigi Repossi, in 1904. In those years this liberty building became the reference point of the editorial area of the city which also included other buildings located on the same via Solferino and in the close via Moscova and Porta Nuova.

In recent years, due to the crisis that hits the publishing industry at the global level, the fate of the headquarters of the Corriere della sera was in the middle of a tough battle between the publisher of the magazine and the journalists. Finally, in November 2013, despite the opposition of the newsroom staff, Rcs Mediagroup (the publishing company) sold to Blackstone, the building that is housing the headquarters of Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport, the leading Italian sports daily, in the streets Solferino and San Marco, for 120 million euro, with the aim of restoring the financial balance of the group.

At least for the moment, the headquarters of the daily have not been moved. The parties signed a lease for nine years that will ensure the presence of the newspaper in the historic building in via Solferino in the coming years.

i CORRIERE DELLA SERA via Solferino, 28 Milano

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MY SUGGESTION ANGELICA PERROTTA Concierge at Starhotel E.c.h.o

BICOCCA THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE FACTORY NEIGHBORHOOD

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t the eyes of a distracted and superficial observer it can be one of those artificial places created in recent years. Largely characterized by residential buildings, university and office, built in the last thirty years, served by the new underground line 5, the first driverless in the city, Bicocca district seems to be an area created between the end of the last century and the beginning of the new millennium.

Instead the “Bicocca�, as the Milan people call it, has an history that has its roots in the past centuries. Although it became part of the municipality of Milan only in the last century, yet in the 16th Century was immersed in the rich cultural and economic Milan context theatre of scientific tests of Leonardo.

Here, in 1526, the painter Giuseppe Arcimboldi (or Arcimboldo according to so-

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NUMBERS SEVEN The disciplines in which the University of Milan Bicocca offers undergraduate and postgraduate training (master, doctoral, graduate schools): Economy-Statistic, Law, Medicine, Psycology, Education Science, Science and Sociology

200 The number of classrooms with more than twenty seats in the university, where in addition to the 203 classrooms, (for a total of 20,279 seats) the students have also 47 linguistic and computer laboratories and three libraries.

OVER 32.000 It’s the number of students enrolled in the university in the previous academic year.

Excluding master, doctoral and graduate schools there were 32.340 students enrolled, and 19.972 of which was females (equal to 61.8%).

ALMOST 6.000 It’s the number of the graduated students in the last year, exactly 5.922

5.6% The percentage of foreign students (1.815) on the total subscribers

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me writings) was born: he is known worldwide for the portraits composed by fruits and vegetables that can be seen today in the Louvre in Paris.

An innovative and modern artist also for us, so that Expo 2015, the world exposition beginning in May, wanted to copy one of his portraits creating “Foody”, the mascot of the event.

Bicocca is one of those neighborhoods that more than any other brea-

thes and expresses the changing of the times. It was the beating heart of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century: here Pirelli, Ansaldo and Breda were seddled with their big factories, employing hundreds of thousands of families. Here there was the core of the resistance and the direction of the urban working class struggle for workers rights in the seventies.

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Then, in the Eighties the industries disengagement in the urban areas leaded to the progressive disertion of factories. In 1985, Pirelli thougth about a redevelopment through an international competition to fill an area of 300 thousand square meters, in which were invited the twenty most famous urban architects of the time, then awarded to Gregoretti Associates International. The first glimpse of change happened in 1991, when the Faculty of Environmental Sciences was born, the first degree program that will start the university campus of the University of Milan Bicocca. Residential sustainable complexes were then completed.

In 1996 it was decided to place a new theatre that could replace the program of La Scala, while it was under renovation. In 2001 was built the Teatro degli Arcimboldi (www.teatroarcimboldi.it) in via Dell’Innovazione 20, opened January 19, 2002 with La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.

The stage has been built to be simi-

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INTERACTIVE MUSEUM OF CINEMA (MIC) Phone: (+39) 02 87242114 Email: info@cinetecamilano.it OPENING HOURS From Tuesday to Sunday from 3 pm to 6 pm PRICE Full ticket : 5.50 euro Adult+Child: 6.00 euro

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lar to the one of La Scala. The room, however, assumes a fan shape, with four rows of seats: auditorium, high auditorium and two galleries. Today, the theatre offers a rich and varied calendar of music, drama and dance. In March it will host the concert of Joan Baez, scheduled on Thursday 12, and that of the pianist Giovanni Allevi, scheduled for Tuesday, March 31. A place that is not the only benchmark, in the neighborhood, for those

who love culture.

A CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM Among the beutiful places there is in fact the Hangar Bicocca in via Chiese 2 (www.hangarbicocca.org), created in 2004 by the conversion of a vast industrial belonged to Ansaldo-Breda and recently indicated by the New York Times as one of the places to visit in Milan. An ex factory dedicated to the production, exhibition and

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FONDAZIONE HANGAR BICOCCA Via Chiese 2 MIlano Phone: (+39) 02 66111573 Email: info@hangarbicocca.org OPENING HOURS Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday: closed Thursday-Friday-SaturdaySunday: from 11 am to 11 pm Free entrance

promotion of contemporary art, is one of the largest exhibition spaces in Europe, and also houses a wonderful restaurant, the “Dopo Lavoro Bicocca”, ideal for an happy hour in Milan style. The museum currently is proposing “Bau Bau”, the first exhibition in Italy by Céline Condorelli.

A similar place in the spirit is the MIC, the Interactive Museum of Cinema, inside the Manifattura Tabacchi in Viale Fulvio Testi 121 (mic.

cinetecamilano.it): 300 square meters of space that gather 50 million km of film, 20 thousand rare cinema posters, precious relics, including the original device of the Lumière brothers. Visiting the MIC means being able to see films, sequences, cartoons until now closed in the archives. Here you can see for free a library with over 6000 titles. One more reason to spend some time at Bicocca.

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MY SUGGESTION MICHAEL SORGATO, Concierge at Magna Pars

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FIERA DI MILANO THE BIG HOUSE OF FAIRS IS ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY

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he certification about sustainability in costruction “Leed” is just the latest recognition to Rho exhibition centre and it’s the first time in Europe that the label goes to an already built complex. But in recent years there have been many more awards won by the new pole of Fiera Milano Rho, closer to the city center (M1- Amendola Fiera), designed by the Italian archistar Massimiliano Fuksas.

Officially opened in 2005, the new Fiera di Milano, which is a few hundred meters far from the site that will host Expo 2015, the Universal Exhibition to be held in Milan from May 1 to October 31, is in fact a true architectural jewel. Rewarded both in the “Awards for Excellence Europe”, by Urban Land Institute in Washington, and in the “International Architecture Awards 2007” of Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, FieraMilano Rho represents a must stage for those who are going to visit Milan.

The dozens of interesting events hosted in its halls give a good reason for a visit, including “Il Salone Del Mobile” (scheduled for April

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14 to 19), which each year rounds up the best emerging trends and the most important companies in the world of interior design. Equipped with the convention center Stella Polare, with ten rooms that can accommodate up to 2,600 people, eight meeting areas, a service center that can satisfy all the needs of exhibitors and visitors, with restaurants, bars and banqueting areas, the Rho is the largest civil engineering project undertaken in Europe in recent years. The central axis, a long corridor long over 1,400 meters, has 28 treadmills/traveletors and is topped by a large glass and steel “sail� made up of over than 100 thousand pieces all different and not interchan-

geable. The visual impact is great: it connects the 20 pavilions (for a total exhibition area of 345 thousand square meters covered and 60.000 uncovered), the convention centre and the rest of the exhibition. But there’s more. The structure, in fact, is a pioneer in the field of environmental sustainability. Born on land occupied for forty years by the former Agip refinery, one of the largest in Europe, FieraMilano Rho is the result of a remediation unheard, which affected 15.5 million tons of soil and also saw action at aquifer below.

Today the water coming from the reclaim wells (depth approximately 45 meters) is used for cooling the heat

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i S.S. del Sempione 28, Rho Milano PUBLIC ENTRANCE ● East Gate (Porta Est), where the Red subway line arrives (Rho Fiera Milano stop M1) ● West Gate (Porta Ovest), by the multi-storey car parks ● South Gate (Porta Sud), the most convenient entrance for the convention centre, service centre and Fiera Milano offices pumps, rationalizing resources and controlling the water surface level.

The heating of the entire structure and neighboring settlements was assured by an energy plant that burns citizens’s garbage and nourishes the district heating system. The pavilions were treated with special photocatalytic titanium paints, which oxidize or decompose the pollutants in the atmosphere or producted by the combustion and turn them into harmless mineral salts, then “washed” by rain.

It’s a very effective system for reducing pollution, because the coating of more than 100,000 square meters of surface area is able to neutralize the emissions produced by 30,000 cars.

FOR INFORMATION Freephone: 800.820029 (only from Italy) Phone: +39 02 4997.1 Fax: +39 02 4997.7379 www.fieramilano.it email: fieramilano@fieramilano.it

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NUMBERS 100.000 The individual pieces, each unique, that make up the “Sail” designed by Massimiliano Fuksas covering the central walkway of Fiera Milano Rho.

35 METRES The maximum height reached by the glass and steel “Sail”, whose length reaches 1.5 kilometers to 30 meters wide.

755 MILLION € The investment fielded for the building of the exhibition of Fiera Milano in Rho

345.000 The square metres of the exhibition space available in Rho

OVER 70 The events of international and national level organized by Fiera di Milano and housed in the two poles of FieraMilano Rho (M1 - Rho Fiera) and FieraMilano City (M1- Amendola Fiera)

MORE THAN 5 MILLION The total of the registered visitors to events organized by Fiera di Milano

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THE EVENTS February 28 - March 2

MIDO

INTERNATIONAL OPTICS, OPTOMETRY AND OPHTHALMOLOGY

March 3 - March 6

MIFUR

INTERNATIONAL FUR AND LEATHER EXHIBITION

March 13 - March 15

HOBBY SHOW

THE GREAT HALL OF THE ITALIAN CREATIVITY

March 13 - March 15

BIKE4ME

THE NEW BIG EVENT DEDICATED TO BIKE FANS.

March 18 - March 21

MADE EXPO

MILAN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION

March 20 - March 22

MILAN CLASSIC CAR VINTAGE VEHICLE FAIR

The largest fair in the eyewear world arrives this year at the 45th edition. Over 1,100 exhibitors from 44 countries, for an event which will be presented in the context of all the most important news. The last year’s edition has counted more than 45.000 visitors: 20.000 of them were Italians and 25.000 were foreigners.

The most important trade fair in the context of the production of fur, leather and fur accessories arrives at the 20th edition. Over 180 companies will be in Milan for an event that last year attracted more than 7000 professionals, 60% of them from abroad.

One of the most important multi-thematic events is completely dedicated to the fine arts and manual creativity, now in its 24th edition. An all-female event, where to shop and have fun date with the latest trends in the field of creativity. Over 170 companies will be there, for an event which last year attracted more than 22,000 visitors.

The show is dedicated to bikes declined in all its forms, from the bike itself to accessories, produced in series and handcrafted, from clothing to food for one of the most popular means of transport in the world, to the news in terms of bike sharing and tourist offers dedicated to those who love cycling.

The international trade fair of architecture and construction reaches its seventh edition. The event, held every two years, is the privileged opportunity to meet companies, architects, designers, company owners, construction companies, retailers and industry professionals. The 2013 edition saw the participation of over 1.400 companies and the presence of more than 210.000 visitors, 36.000 of them from abroad.

Vintage cars on display and for sale due to the presence of Italian and foreign dealers and auction houses, spare parts for classic cars, restorers that can produce artisans work of high level: the fourth edition of Milan Classic Car, one of the most important events in Europe for vintage cars and vintage, is all that and much more. The last edition attracted over 40.000 fans from around the world.

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Tel +39 02.76003315 Fax +39 02.76022024 www.mifur.com info@mifur.com

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Tel +39 02 87213851 Fax +39 02 87213854 www.hobbyshow.it info@upmarketsrl.it

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Tel +39 02 87213851 Fax +39 02 87213854 www.bike4me.it info@upmarketsrl.it

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Tel +39 02 806041 Fax +39 02 80604395 www.madeexpo.it info@madeexpo.it

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Tel +39 0572 910474 Fax +39 0572 911228 www.milanoautoclassica.com fiere@orgacom.it

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● Grand Hotel et de Milan

● Hotel De La Ville

● Hotel Armani

● Hotel Diana Majestic

● Hotel Bulgari

● Hotel Double Tree by Hilton

● Hotel Excelsior Gallia ● Hotel Four Seasons Milano ● Hotel Palazzo Parigi ● Hotel Park Hyatt ● Hotel Principe di Savoia ● Hotel Westin Palace

● Hotel Grand Visconti Palace ● Hotel Hermitage ● Hotel Hilton Milano ● Hotel Marriott Milano ● Hotel Michelangelo ● Hotel Milano Scala ● Hotel Mozart

● Carlton Hotel Baglioni

● Hotel NH Touring

● Hotel Boscolo

● Hotel Novotel Milano Linate

● Hotel Magna Pars

● Hotel Romana Residence ● Hotel Spadari al Duomo ● Hotel Straf ● Hotel The Yard ● Hotel Uptown Palace ● Hotel Vittoria

● Villa D’Este (Cernobbio – CO) ● Grand Hotel Fasano (Gardone Riviera – BS) ● Hotel Splendido (Portofino- GE) ● Excelsior Palace (Rapallo – GE) ● Hotel du Lac et du Parc (Riva del Garda- TN) ● Grand Hotel Tremezzo (Tremezzo - CO)

● Grand Hotel Menaggio ( Menaggio - CO ) ● Grand Hotel Miramare (S. Margherita Ligure - GE ) ● Punta Est ( Finale Ligure- SV) ● Villa Cortine Palace Hotel (Sirmione - BS)

● Starhotels Anderson ● Starhotels Business ● Starhotels Echo ● Starhotels Rosa Grand

www.lechiavidoromilano.it

● Una Hotel Scandinavia

● First Hotel Malpensa (Case Nuove Somma Lombardo-Va) ● Hotel Pioppeto (Saronno-Va)

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MARCH

RESTAURANTS ● AL CELLINI Via B.Cellini 19

● FINGER’S GARDEN Via G. Keplero 2

● MONTECRISTO C.so Sempione 28

● ALEXANDER Corso Garibaldi 108

● GIACOMO ARENGARIO Via G. Marconi 1

● O LEI Via G. Washington 20

● GIACOMOBISTROT Via P. Sottocorno 6

● OSTERIA ACQUA & SALE Via Adige, 23

● GENTE DI MARE Bastioni di P.ta Volta 5

● OSTERIA DEI SAPORI Via Augusto Anfossi, 10

● IL BOLOGNESE Via Amedei 8

● OSTERIA GRAN BURRONE Via Mantova, 10

● IL CESTINO Via Madonnina, 27

● OSTERIA MAMMA ROSA Piazza Cincinnato, 4

● IL CORIANDOLO Via dell’Orso 1

● PEACOCK CAFÈ Viale Certosa 131

● IL LUOGO DI AIMO E NADIA Via Raimondo Montecuccoli 6

● RISTORANTE 13 GIUGNO Via Goldoni 44 Piazza Mirabello, 1

● ALICE Piazza 25 Aprile 10 ● ANTICA OSTERIA CAVALLINI Via M. Macchi 2 ● ANTICA TRATTORIA DELLA PESA Viale Pasubio 10 ● ARMANI NOBU Via Gastone Pisoni 1 ● BICE Via Borgospesso 12 ● BOEUCC ANTICO RISTORANTE P.le Belgioioso 2 ● CARLO E CAMILLA IN SEGHERIA Via Meda 24 ● CRACCO Via Victor Hugo 4 ● CERESIO 7 POOL & RESTAURANT Via Ceresio 7

● IL MARCHESINO Piazza della Scala Angolo Via Filodrammatici 2

● SADLER Via Ascanio Sforza 77

● IL SALUMAIO DI MONTENAPOLEONE Via Santo Spirito 10

● SAVINI Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Via Ugo Foscolo 5

● IL SOLFERINO Via Castelfidardo, 2

● TANO PASSAMI L’OLIO Via Villoresi 16 Angolo Via Pastorelli

● IL TAVOLINO Via Generale Gustavo Fara, 23

● TORRE DI PISA Via Fiori Chiari 21/5

● JOIA Via Panfilo Castaldi 18

● TRATTORIA LA TREBIA Via Trebbia, 32

● LANGOSTERIA 10 Via Savona 10

● TRUSSARDI ALLA SCALA Piazza della Scala 5

● LA BRICIOLA Via Solferino 25

● UNICO RESTAURANT Viale Achille Papa 30

● EVO Via Friuli, 77

● LA RISACCA 6 Via Marcona 6

● YACOUT Via Cadore, 23-25

● FINGER’S Via San Gerolamo Emiliani 2

● LE SPECIALITÀ Via Pietro Calvi, 29

● ZERO CONTEMPORARY FOOD Corso Magenta 87

● DA BERTI Via Algarotti 20 ● DA GIACOMO Via P. Sottocorno 6 ● DON LISANDER Via Alessandro Manzoni, 12/A ● EL BRELLIN Vicolo dei Lavandai Alzaia Naviglio Grande 14 ● EL CARNICEIRO Via Spartaco 31 ● EL PORTENO Via Gian Galeazzo 25

TO RESERVE ASK YOUR CONCIERGE

MARCH

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MARCH

HAPPYHOUR ● AJO BLANCO Via Thaon De Revel 11 t.02 6686577

● FRANK Via Lecco 1 t. 02 29532587

● NOON Via G. Boccaccio 24 t. 02 48024607

● BAR BASSO Via Plinio 39 t. 02 29400580

● GLOBE Piazza 5 Giornate 1/A VIII piano Coin t. 02 55181969

● NOTTINGHAM FOREST Viale Piave 1 t. 02 798311

● BAR MARTINI Corso Venezia 15 t. 02 7006011154

● MOOD MILANO Via Melchiorre Gioia 69 t. 02 45472137

● BHANGRA BAR Corso Sempione 1 t. 02 34934469

● H CLUB DIANA Viale Piave 42 t. 02 20582004

● BOBINO CLUB Alzaia Naviglio Grande 116 t. 02 36559070

● INVILLA’ Via Pegaso 11 t. 02 48702743

● CAFE’ TRUSSARDI Piazza della Scala 5 t. 02 80688295

● JAZZ CAFE’ Corso Sempione 8 t. 02 33604039

● CALIFORNIA BAKERY Via Tortona, Via Larga, Piazza Sant’Eustorgio, Viale Premuda, L.go Augusto, Corso Como, Piazza San Simpliciano, Via San Vittore.

● LA HORA FELIZ Via San Vito 5/A t. 02 8376587

● CAMPARINO IN GALLERIA Piazza del Duomo 21 t.02 86464435 ● CERESIO 7 POOLS & RESTAURANT Via Ceresio 7 t. 02 31039221 ● DA CLAUDIO Via Cusani 1 ● 10 CORSO COMO Corso Como 10 t. 02 29013581

● LA RINASCENTE FOOD HALL Via S. Redegonda 1 t. 02 8852471 ● LIVING Piazza Sempione 2 t. 02 33100824 ● LE BICICLETTE Via Torti ang. Corso Genova t. 02 58104325 ● LOOLA PALOOSA Corso Como 15 t. 02 6555693 ● MARC JACOBS CAFE’ Piazza del Carmine 6 t. 02 878059

● ELETTRAUTO CADORE Via G. Pinaroli 3 t. 02 55191711

● MILANO Via Procaccini 37 t. 02 34930819

● FASHION CAFE’ Piazza San Marco 1 t. 02 6572021

● MOM CAFE’ Viale Montenero 51 t. 02 59901562

● N’OMBRA DE VIN Via San Marco 2 t. 02 6599650 ● RADETZKY Corso Garibaldi 105 t. 02 6572645 ● RIAD YACOUT Via Cadore 23/25 t. 02 5462230 ● RICCI MILANO Piazza della Repubblica 27 t. 02 6694269 ● RITA Via Angelo Fumagalli 1 t. 02.8372865 ● ROIALTO Via Piero della Francesca 35 t. 02 34936616 ● TERRAZZA APEROL Piazza Duomo ang. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II T. 02 86331959 ● TERRAZZA MARTINI Piazza A. Diaz 7 t. 02 8690905 ● TERRAZZA DI VIA PALESTRO Via Palestro 2 t. 02 76028316 ● YGUANA Via Papa Gregorio XIV 16 t. 02 89404195

At the airport, in the city,

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MARCH

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MARCH

Airports

LINATE

MALPENSA MILANO

MILANO- BERGAMO

Viale Enrico Forlanini I - Milano Tel: 02 74852200 www.sea-aeroportimilano.it

Via Malpensa 1, Ferno - Varese Tel: 02.74.85.22.00 www.milanomalpensa-airport.com

Via Aeroporto, 13, Orio Al Serio Tel: 035 326323 www.orioaeroporto.it

MILANO

ORIO AL SERIO

Railways

CENTRALE FS

GARIBALDI FS

CADORNA FN

Piazza Duca D’Aosta, 1 Tel: 02 667 3511 www.milanocentrale.it

Piazza Sigmund Freud Tel: 02 6552078 www.centostazioni.it

Piazzale Cadorna, 14/16 Tel: 02 48066771 www.trenord.it

ROGOREDO FS

LAMBRATE FS

Via G. Battista Cassinis, 81 Tel: 02 5693355 www.centostazioni.it

Piazza Enrico Bottini Tel: 02 6371.1 www.centostazioni.it

MARCH

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