Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Casa Museo Boschi-di Stefano
HOUSE MUSEUM
One of Milan's best collection of 20th-century Italian paintings is crowded salon-
style into a Piero Portaluppi-designed 1930s apartment that still has the appear-
ance of the haute-bourgeois home it once was. It's a heady art hit, with Boccioni's
dynamic brushstrokes propelling painting towards Futurism, the metaphysical
Campigli and De Chirico, and the restless, expressionist Informels covering every
inch of wall space.
(
02 2024 0568;
www.fondazioneboschidistefano.it
;
Via Giorgio Jan 15; ad-
mission free;
2-6pm Tue-Sun Sep-Jul, daily Aug;
Lima)
2
Giardini Pubblici
PUBLIC GARDEN
A life story unfolds as you follow pebble paths past bumper cars and a carousel,
onward past kissing teens, a beer kiosk, baby prams, jogging paths and shady
benches. Jump in, or just stop and smell the roses. For grey days the Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale (
Click here
) beckons.
(Corso Venezia;
6.30am-sunset;
;
Palestro)
3
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
HOUSE MUSEUM
Though born a few centuries too late, the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers, Fausto and
Giuseppe, were determined to be Renaissance men, and from 1878 to 1887 built
their twin mansions as a living museum of the Quattrocento. Decorated after the
style of the ducal palaces in Mantua, the apartments are full of Renaissance fur-
nishings, ceiling friezes, tapestries and paintings. Even the period stone bath was
retro-fitted discreetly for running water, a modernisation of their own era.
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