Milan
Monday, 5. February 2007, 10:00:00
I spent my last day in Italy walking on streets and in parks in Milan. For me it wasn't easy to understand how the shops can be close on Monday in Milan like some Germans couldn't understand how the shops could be open on Sunday in Venice. I had some prejudices about Milan because I read that it was a very boring city and it wasn't like any other italian city. But I like the cities with parks in the city center like Munich and Vienna or Istanbul -if you live close to a park- and I liked to walk around in Milan.
First stop was Duomo and there I saw how a cathedral can be commercialised and of course in style of Milan:
Having some italian deserts was unavoidable and it was perfect with a cup of delicious capuccino.
On Via Dante, a big shopping street, there was an exhibition called "Italy from above". The photos made me feel like going to Sicily and Sardinia as soon as posible. This is what the curator of the exhibition Marie-Laurence Chicouri wrote about it:
You can find the photos of the day here. My impressions in my short visit in Italy:
First stop was Duomo and there I saw how a cathedral can be commercialised and of course in style of Milan:
Having some italian deserts was unavoidable and it was perfect with a cup of delicious capuccino. On Via Dante, a big shopping street, there was an exhibition called "Italy from above". The photos made me feel like going to Sicily and Sardinia as soon as posible. This is what the curator of the exhibition Marie-Laurence Chicouri wrote about it:
People have dreamed... since antiquity of taking flight so as to embrace with their gaze the world's wide open spaces, and at the same time to discover details that can neither be seen nor imagined from below. "Italy from above" responds to this innade need with a remarkable photographic reportage by Antonio Attini and Marcello Bertinetti, wherein the contours drawn by nature intertwine with the tight grids of city streets and the artful geometrics of the works of man. Not all of Italy's cities and works of art, nor all the masterpieces of nature are represented in the exhibition, not even the "best" or the "most representative", ... The exhibition is motivated above all, then, by a desire to raise awareness of the fact Italy is unique among the world's countries, and it's heritage deserves to be cherished and protected. It is necessary to contribute to safeguarding and celebrating this heritage to prevent it from gradually disappearing.
You can find the photos of the day here. My impressions in my short visit in Italy:
- I stayed in this hostel and it was OK. I stayed in better or cheaper ones before
- Not everyone was fashionable in Milan but I saw some with sunglasses in subway
- Italians are worse than Turks if it's about waiting in a queue
- Even in touristic locations people don't try to speak in English
but it was very delicious.
made me tired, it was time to turn back to Milan.
