Milan

We did a walking tour this morning with a very enthusiastic and extremely passionate guide. His tour was 3 hours long, but at the 2 hour mark we had heard

Some fun facts we learnt
One of the 3000+ statues on the Duomo (the huge cathedral) is the spitting image of The Statue of Liberty but it was there for over 70 years before the Liberty was made. Intriguingly, the guy who designed the Statue of Liberty was visiting Milan a few months before he actually made the one in New York 🤔🤔 ………sounds like a bit of plagiarism to me.

On top of the duomo is a golden statue of Jesus’ mum, Mary. Any new building that is taller than the duomo has a statue of Mary on top, so she is always looking over the city of Milan.

The most disturbingly, bizarre stop on our walk was a chapel where the walls were just layer upon layer upon layer of human skulls and femurs (see photos). It was pretty uncomfortable to be in there to be honest.

After our tour we visited the beautiful castle gardens, complete with a mini Arc de Triomphe and then did a spot of shopping.

Dinner was delicious pasta, made even more delicious by the fact we discovered that you get free nibbles (very impressive nibbles too!!) when ordering drinks! Sooooo, we did the Italian thing and had drinks and nibbles at one place and dinner at the other. No need for entree and too full for dessert. Winning!

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