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Select the dates of your stay >La Scala Theater
The Teatro alla Scala (also known as La Scala) in Milan, Italy, is one of the most famous opera houses in the world.
The theater season usually begins on December 7, the day of Saint Ambrose, patron saint of Milan. All functions must end before midnight; Longer operas should start earlier. Antonio Bernocchi was the top financier for the reconstruction of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, affected by the bombing of the war and reopened "as it was and where it was" on May 11, 1946.
Among the greatest directors of the Theater are figures such as Arturo Toscanini, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Claudio Abbado, Georges Prêtre, Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim.
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Province of Milan
The province of Milan was a province of Lombardy (Italy). Its capital was the city of Milan. Its population was 3 170 597 inhabitants and its surface area of 1575 km².
There were 134 municipalities in it.
The new province of Monza and Brianza was created with part of the province of Milan, and was fully effective in 2009.
In 2015 it was replaced by the metropolitan city of Milan.
Pinacoteca de Brera
The Pinacoteca de Brera is an art collection located in Milan, northern Italy. It contains one of the most outstanding collections of Italian painting, a consequence of the cultural program of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera ("Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera" or Accademia di Brera), which shares its site in the Palazzo Brera.
Select the dates of your stay >Poldi Pezzoli Museum
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum is a museum of private origin that is located in the center of Milan, a few steps from the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12.
The museum exhibits works by Sandro Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiolo, Giovanni Bellini, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Filippo Lippi, Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, among others.
Ambrosiana Pinacoteca
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is a museum in Milan (Italy).
It was founded by Federico Borromeo in 1618 at the Ambrosiana Library, instituted as early as 1609. The institution was born to ensure a free cultural training to anyone who had artistic or intellectual qualities. The Pinacoteca was joined by an academy of painting and sculpture, with plaster copies of Laocoonte and Pieta by Michelangelo from the Leone Leoni collection. The first painting teacher was the Cerano; only student of some importance was Daniele Crespi.
The Ambrosiana Library and the Pinacoteca are closely related. In fact, the ...
Ambrosian Library
The Ambrosiana Library is a historical library in Milan, which also contains the art gallery known as Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.
The library, which owes its name to Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, was founded in 1607 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents toured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria in search of books and manuscripts. Some important acquisitions of complete libraries were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of Bobbio (1606), as well as those of the Paduano Vincenzo Pinelli library, whose more than 800 manuscripts filled 70 boxes when they were sent to Milan, a ...