Gallery · Lombardy
Museo del Novecento
The Museo del Novecento is the Comune di Milano's museum of 20th-century Italian art, in the Palazzo dell'Arengario on Piazza del Duomo.
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Italy•City
Milan
Milan is an Italian city and the capital of Lombardy. XTOUR maps places in the city itself, such as the cathedral, the Last Supper museum, Sforza Castle and the Pinacoteca di Brera.
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Italy
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City
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Church · Lombardy
Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano) is the Catholic cathedral on Piazza del Duomo in central Milan, cared for by the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo.
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Historic site · Lombardy
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a covered nineteenth-century shopping arcade in central Milan, running between Piazza del Duomo and the Teatro alla Scala.
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Museum · Lombardy
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is a house museum on Via Manzoni in central Milan, in the former home of the collector Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli.
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Gallery · Lombardy
Pinacoteca di Brera
The Pinacoteca di Brera is a state art museum and picture gallery in the Palazzo Brera in Milan, open to the public since 1809.
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Fortress · Lombardy
Sforza Castle
Sforza Castle (Castello Sforzesco) is a castle on Piazza Castello in Milan that houses the City of Milan's Castle museums, archives and libraries.
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Guides to Milan
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Useful from Milan
Travel Guide01
Duomo, cattedrale, basilica, chiesa: what Italian church words mean
Italian signs use duomo, cattedrale, basilica and chiesa for overlapping things, and one building can carry three of the names at once. This explainer gives each word's meaning from Treccani's dictionary and the Code of Canon Law, shows how Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome's Pantheon combine them, and explains why the word on the sign tells you less about a visit than the body that runs the building.
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Travel Guide02
Italy travel guide: choosing regions and city bases
XTOUR plans Italy around city bases rather than regions: Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Palermo, Genoa, Bolzano, Pisa and Siena. This guide says what each base is for, which major sites are in a city and which are only reached from one, and where XTOUR's more detailed guides take over.
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Travel Guide03
Seeing Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan: the museum, not the church
Leonardo's Last Supper is painted on the refectory wall of the convent beside Santa Maria delle Grazie, and it is seen through a separate, booked museum, the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano. This guide explains the difference between the church and the museum, who runs the museum, how its own pages describe ticket sales, and where those pages disagree.
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Travel Guide04
Is Tuscany a city? Italy's regions, provinces and city names explained
Tuscany is one of Italy's twenty regions, not a city: Florence is its capital, and Pisa and Siena are separate towns inside it. This explainer sets out how Italy's regions, provinces, metropolitan cities and municipalities fit together, why the English and Italian names differ, and why XTOUR records cities rather than regions.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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