If you fancy a brunch on a sunday morning in Milan, Biancolatte is the place to be. Where: Biancolatte is in via Turati a few steps form the posh fashion district of Milano. Catch the yellow line and get off at Turati Station. While walking there enjoy the beautiful architecture that surrounds the restaurants. What: The restaurant offers a wide range of mouth-watering treats! Its specialties are ice creams and pastries. The bar at the entrance is a joy to the eye of the visitors and just behind the store there is a private room with white tables and chairs…
The Milan City Journal
How Milan started its quest for beauty? The Belle Epoque The second half of the nineteenth century was a crucial period for the city. The whole Piazza del Duomo was subject to a relevant renovation. Architect Giuseppe Mengoni was in charge of the construction of the Galleria which was dedicated to the King of Italy as well as the equestrian monument in the middle of the square. The first powerhouse of continental Europe was installed in Milan in 1883 to enlighten the streets around the city centre. This demonstrates how eager the Milanese society was to keep up with the…
The most popular brands on Instagram. The top twenty of the most popular brands on Instagram. Every brand has its own hashtag. Whatever we do or wear we tent to identify our pictures using the official or most popular hashtag of that particular brand. Here is the list of the most popular italian fashion brands on instagram. The list takes into consideration only the most popular hashtags and does not consider the secondary hashtags. For istance to calculate the number of times that #prada has been featured on Instagram we do not considered the hashtags : #pradabag or #pradaheels. …
The Piazza del Duomo This is the heart of this concentric city. It has a 17.000 square meters surface and it is surrounded by several buildings on three sides while the fourth one is occupied by the cathedral. At its centre there is the equestrian statue of king Vittorio Emanuele the II, the first king of Italy. The two porticos on the right and left side were designed by architect Giuseppe Mengoni in 1865 while the building right next to the Duomo, the Palazzo dell’Arengario, designed by architects Portaluppi, Muzi, Magistretti and Griffini now hosts the Museo del Novecento. The…
The Spanish domination: 12th of October 1492 is an important milestone in the history of the world. Christopher Columbus arrived to what he believed were the Indies and discovered America. This date marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era. While Columbus’s fleet was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in Milan Ludovico il Moro, lord of the city, was struggling to maintain his power against the French first and then the Spanish invaders. The Emperor Charles the Fifth conquered the city and so begun a 160 years period of Spanish domination. The Mediterranean area…
]It is hard to recap the middle ages in a few lines but we will give it a try. Steady, ready…go! The end of the Roman Empire During the whole fifth century AD Milan was often under attack. The barbarian invasions seriously affected the economy and prosperity of the city. In 452 AD Attila led his people (the Huns) to the city and confiscated goods and properties of the Milanese people. In 493 Teodorico (King of the Ostrogoths) defeated Odoacre responsible of the deposition of the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Romolus Augustus. The uncertainty of the stability led Iustinian…