Milan (Milano)
The dynamo behind the country's "economic miracle", MILAN
is a city like no other in Italy. It's foggy in winter, muggy in
summer, and is closer in outlook, as well as distance, to London
than to Palermo. This is no city of peeling palazzi, cobbled
piazzas and la dolce vita , but one in which time is money,
the pace fast, and where consumerism and the work-ethic rule the
lives of its power-dressed citizens.
It's a historic city, with enough churches and museums to keep
you busy for a week - the Accademia Brera, duomo and the church of
Santa Maria delle Grazie - but there are also parks and cafés to
relax in, and the contemporary aspects of the place represent the
leading edge of Italy's fashion and design industry
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