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Seeing a city through somebody else's eyes may be the freshest and most fascinating way to visit it.  Italian filmmakers have flocked to Milan, thus producing two masterpieces of World Cinema as well as innumerable genre films (its police thrillers called "polizieschi" and its killer-thrillers known as "gialli̶ which flourished between 1965 and 1985.

Here listed is the celluloid Milano, the city of extremes --- the wealth and the squalor, the ...

A Top 10 Look at 10 of Milan's Brera Museum's Oddest Paintings

Back before "lurid" became fashionable, the Old Masters, under the guise of mythology, Bible History, or the iconography of the Church, often produced obsessive, startling and graphic works --- many of which were first unveiled to the public inside the local churches.

1. Bramantino/ Crucifixion: A ghostly vision with even an airborn demon paying his respects.  Note the skull at ...

Visiting the Galleria Accademia in Venice, normally considered the greatest art museum in Northern Italy, one is immediately struck by the general sense of decay and disarray -- whole rooms are even closed to the public and God-only-knows how long it may take for it to match the splendor of the recently renovated and expanded Brera Pinacoteca in Milan.

Although the Brera collection warrants a Top 100, here's a Top 10 list of ...

 
 
And it sure was a night... Milan vs Liverpool 2007, played on May 23. Together with thousands of fans I watched the game at Duomo square but we were not alone... Millions of beer cans and bottles made the square invisible after the ...

Every tourist guide will tell you to visit a performance in Teatro alla Scala. Although that is very easily written, getting your hands on an actual ticket is a lot harder as most of the bigger productions are sold out months before. However, if you have the change... go as yesterday I had a wonderful night watching the ballet La bella addormentata nel bosco... Sleeping beauty. With Marta Romagna (Aurora) ...