Milan
Comune di Milano | |
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Sovereign state | Italy |
Region | Lombardy |
Province | Province of Milan |
Insubric settlement | c. 600 BC |
Roman foundation | 222 BC |
Government | |
• Mayor | Letizia Moratti |
Area | |
• City | 182 km2 (70 sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,982 km2 (765 sq mi) |
Elevation | 120 m (394 ft) |
Population | |
• City | 1,303,437 |
• Density | 7,159/km2 (18,540/sq mi) |
• Urban | 3,884,481 |
• Metro | 7,400,000 |
• Called | Milanesi or Meneghini |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 20100, 20121-20162 |
Area code | 02 |
Patron saints | Ambrose (7 December) |
Website | http://www.comune.milano.it |
Milan (Italian: Milano; Lombard: Milan (listen)) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy, and is one of the most highly developed urban centres in Europe.
The municipality ([Comune di Milano)] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) has a population of 1.3 million. The population of the urban area, that coincides with the Province of Milan, is estimated as of 2006 to be 3,884,481 [1]. Finally, the population of the Milan metropolitan area counts over 7.4 million residents, the largest in Italy [2]. The municipal border covers a relatively small area (about one-eighth of that of Rome) because of the historical development of high density centres in agriculturally rich Lombardy.
Milan is also renowned as one of the world capitals of design and fashion[2]. Indeed the English word milliner is derived from the name of the city. The Lombard metropolis is famous for its fashion houses and shops (such as along via Montenapoleone) and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in the Piazza Duomo (reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall). The city hosted the World Exposition in 1906 and has submitted a bid to BIE to host the Universal Expo in 2015. Inhabitants of Milan are referred to as "Milanese" (Italian: [Milanesi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or informally [Meneghini] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or [Ambrosiani] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)).
The Olona river runs through Milan.
History
Etymology
The Celtic name for the settlement of the Insubres is not attested, but in the Roman name Mediolanum the name element -lanum is the Celtic equivalent of -planum "plain'", thus Mediolanum: "in the midst of the plain", due to its location in a plain close to the confluence of two small rivers, the Olona and the Seveso. The origin of the name and of a boar as a symbol of the city are fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata (1584), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where a boar is seen lifted from the excavation, and the etymology of Mediolanum given as "half-wool",[3] explained in Latin and in French. The foundation of Milan is credited to two Celtic peoples, the Bituriges and the Aedui, having as their emblems a ram and a boar;[4] therefore "The city’s symbol is a wool-bearing boar, an animal of double form, here with sharp bristles, there with sleek wool."[5] Alciato credits the most saintly and learned Ambrose for his account.[6]
The German name for the city is Mailand, while in the local Western Lombard dialect, the city's name is Milán, similar to the French.
Roman times
Around 400 BC, the Celtic Insubres inhabited Milan and the surrounding region. In 222 BC, the Romans conquered this settlement, which received the name Mediolanum.
After several centuries of Roman control, Milan was declared the capital of the Western Roman Empire by Emperor Diocletian in 293 AD. Diocletian chose to stay in the Eastern Roman Empire (capital Nicomedia) and his colleague Maximianus the Western one. Immediately Maximinian built several gigantic monuments, like a large circus (470 x 85 meters), the Thermae Erculee, a large complex of imperial palaces and several other services and buildings.
In the Edict of Milan of 313, Emperor Constantine I guaranteed freedom of religion for Christians. The city was besieged by the Visigoths in 402, and the imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. Fifty years later (in 452), the Huns overran the city. In 539, the Ostrogoths conquered and destroyed Milan in the course of the so-called Gothic War against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Milan became part of the Frankish Empire in 774. Subsequently it was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Middle Ages
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During the Middle Ages, Milan prospered as a center of trade due to its command of the rich plain of the Po and routes from Italy across the Alps. The war of conquest by Frederick I Barbarossa against the Lombard cities brought the destruction of much of Milan in 1162. After the founding of the Lombard League in 1167, Milan took the leading role in this alliance. As a result of the independence that the Lombard cities gained in the Peace of Constance in 1183, Milan became a duchy. In 1395, Gian Galeazzo Visconti became duke of Milan. In 1450, Milan passed to the noble House of Sforza, which made Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance.
Periods of Spanish, French and Austrian domination
The French king Louis XII first laid claim to the duchy in 1492. At that time, Milan was defended by Swiss mercenaries. After Louis’ victory over the Swiss at the Battle of Marignano, the duchy was promised to the French king Francis I. When the Habsburg Charles V defeated Francis I at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, northern Italy, including Milan, passed to the House of Habsburg. In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles’s Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand’s Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.
However, in 1700 the Spanish line of Habsburgs was extinguished with the death of Charles II. After his death, the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 with the occupation of all Spanish possessions by French troops backing the claim of the French Philippe of Anjou to the Spanish throne. In 1704, the French were defeated in Ramillies and Turin and were forced to yield northern Italy to the Austrian Habsburgs. In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht formally confirmed Austrian sovereignty over most of Spain’s Italian possessions including Lombardy and its capital, Milan.
19th Century
Napoleon conquered Lombardy in 1796, was crowned "king of Italy" in the Duomo, and Milan was declared capital of the Cisalpine Republic. Once Napoleon’s occupation ended, the Congress of Vienna returned Lombardy, and Milan, along with the Veneto, to Austrian control in 1815.
During this period, Milan became a centre of lyric opera. Here Mozart wrote three operas, and in few years La Scala got the reference theatre in the word, with his premieres of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. Verdi himself is now tumulated in a precious Institute, the "Casa di Riposo per Musicisti", the Verdi's present to Milan. On the XIX century other important theatres was La Cannobiana and the Teatro Carcano.
On March 18, 1848, the Milanese rebelled against Austrian rule, and Field Marshall Radetzky was forced to withdraw from the city temporarily. However, after defeating Italian forces at Custoza on July 24, Radetzky was able to reassert Austrian control over Milan and northern Italy. However, Italian nationalists, championed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, called for the removal of Austria in the interest of Italian unification. Sardinia and France formed an alliance and defeated Austria at the Battle of Solferino in 1859. Following this battle, Milan and the rest of Lombardy were incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon gained control of most of Italy and in 1861 was rechristened as the Kingdom of Italy.
The political unification of Italy cemented Milan’s commercial dominance over northern Italy. It also led to a flurry of railway construction that made Milan the rail hub of northern Italy. Rapid industrialization put Milan at the centre of Italy’s leading industrial region. Meanwhile, as Milanese banks dominated Italy’s financial sphere, the city became the country’s leading financial centre. Milan’s economic growth brought a rapid expansion in the city’s area and population during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
20th Century
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In 1919, Benito Mussolini organized the Blackshirts, who formed the core of Italy’s Fascist movement, in Milan. In 1922, Mussolini started his March on Rome from Milan. Milan suffered severe damage from British and American carpet bombings especially in 1944 during World War II.
During the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of Italians, particularly from Southern Italy, moved to Milan to seek jobs within the city’s rapidly expanding economy and the population peaked at 1,723,000 in 1971. However, most of this population was lost during the '70s and '80s to the belt of new suburbs and small cities surrounding Milan. Nonetheless, Milan’s population seems to have stabilized, and there has been a slight increase in the population of the city since 2001.
Climate
Under the Köppen climate classification Milan is typically classified as having a Humid subtropical climate (Cfa). In contrast to most of Italy, which is famous for a comfortable Mediterranean climate, Milan's winters are typically damp and cold, while summers are hot and very humid. Average temperatures are -3/+6°C in January and +15/+28°C in July. Snowfalls were once common, sometimes with up to 40 cm (15 in) per year, less and less so in the last two decades. Humidity is quite high during the whole year and annual precipitation averages about 1000 mm (40 in). In the stereotypical image, the city is often shrouded in the fog characteristic of the Po Basin, although the removal of rice fields from the southern neighbourhoods, urban heating effect and the reduction of pollution levels have reduced this phenomenon in recent years.
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Landmarks
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Milan is one of the major artistic centres of northern Italy. Its chief landmarks include:
- The Duomo, the second largest church in Italy and world's third, and the world's largest collection of marble statues with the widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, la Madunina (little Madonna), the symbol of Milan.
- Teatro alla Scala. Milan is also one of the most important centres in the world for Opera lirica, with his famous Teatro alla Scala (La Scala).
- The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a large, covered arcade linking the Duomo's piazza with the Teatro alla Scala.
- The Castello Sforzesco
- The Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio
- The Palaeo-Christian Basilica of San Lorenzo
- The Biblioteca Ambrosiana, containing drawings and notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci among its vast holdings of books, manuscripts, and drawings, and is one of the main repositories of European culture. The city is also the home of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
- The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, a museum next to it houses one of the most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper (L'ultima cena or Il cenacolo)
- The church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro, with a famous trompe l'oeil traditionally ascribed to Bramante
- The Pinacoteca di Brera, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Poldi Pezzoli, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum and the Musei del Castello galleries, which host a great number of pictorial masterpieces
- The Cimitero Monumentale di Milano.
Demographics
The city proper (Comune di Milano) has a population of 1,303,437 inhabitants (2006). Between 1991 to 2001, the city proper has lost 113,084 inhabitants (8.3 percent), mostly due to suburban sprawl and expulsion of population from the inner city centre, which is now almost fully dedicated to offices and commerce. The population of the urban area, that coincides with the Province of Milan, is estimated as of 2006 to be 3,884,481 [3]. Finally, the official population of the Milan Metropolitan area counts over 7.4 million residents, the largest in Italy [4]. As of 2006, the Italian national institute of statistics ISTAT estimated that 292,204 foreign-born immigrants live in Milan Urban Area, equal to 7.6% of total population.
Economy
Milan is one of the major financial and business centres of the world. The city is the seat of the Italian Stock Exchange (the Borsa Italiana)"Piazza Affari" and its hinterland is an avant-garde industrial area. Milan was included in a list of ten "Alpha world cities" by Peter J. Taylor and Robert E. Lang of the Brookings Institution in the economic report "U.S. Cities in the 'World City Network'" (Key Findings, Template:PDFlink).
Milan is also well known as the seat of the Alfa Romeo motorcar company, for its silk production, and as one of the world's capitals for fashion and a world leader for design.
Milan also provides directional functions for the whole of Lombardy, as its industrial base has been externalized throughout the region in the 1960s-70s.
FieraMilano, the city's Exhibition Centre and Trade Fair complex, is notable. The original fairground, known as "FieraMilanoCity", is slated for redevelopment. The new fairground, in the north-western suburb of Rho, opened in April 2005, making the Fiera Milano the largest trade fair complex in the world.
Milan of the future
At present, Milan is experiencing a significant architectural and urban design renaissance. Many new construction projects are under way with the aim of rehabilitating disused, peripheral industrial areas, including entire quarters. Examples of these projects include: the addition to the Teatro alla Scala; the CityLife project in the old "fiera" site; the European Library; the new quarter Santa Giulia; and the Porta Nuova project in the Garibaldi-Republica zone. Famous architects are involved in the construction of this "new" Milan, such as Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Massimiliano Fuksas and Daniel Libeskind. These major works will give Milan a new skyline no longer dominated by the Duomo and the Pirelli Tower.
This urban rebirth is further fostered by the bid to host Expo 2015.
List of projects
- Montecity-Rogoredo: 612.900 + 330.000 park
- CityLife (2012):
- Porta Nuova - Garibaldi/Repubblica (2012): 260.000
- Certosa (2008)
- Porta Vittoria: 300.000
- Rubattino: 611.000
- Bovisa: new Politecnico di Milano campus
Languages
Together with Italian language, a third of western Lombardy population can speak Western Lombard language, also known as Insubric or Milanese language. In Milan, they speak the Milanese dialect, the literary variant of this language. It mustn't be confused with the Milanese spoken variety of the Italian language.
Religion
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Milan's population, like that of Italy as a whole, is overwhelmingly Catholic. Other religions practised include Buddhism[8], Judaism, Islam[9][10] and Protestantism[11][12].
The Ambrosian Rite
Milan has its own historic Catholic rite known as the Ambrosian Rite (it: rito ambrosiano). It varies slightly from the typical Catholic rite (the Roman, used in all other western regions), with some differences in the liturgy and mass celebrations, and in the calendar (for example, the date of carnival is celebrated some days after the common date). The Ambrosian rite is also practised in other surrounding locations in Lombardy and in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Another important difference concerns the liturgical music. The Gregorian chant was completely unused in Milan and surrounding areas, because the official one was its own Ambrosian chant, definitively established by the Council of Trent (1545-1563) and earlier than the Gregorian [5]. To preserve this music there has developed the unique schola cantorum, a college, and an Institute in partnership with the "Pontifical Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music" (PIAMS) in Rome [6].
Food
Like most cities in Italy, Milan and its surrounding area has its own regional cuisine. Milanese cuisine includes "cotoletta alla milanese", a fried veal (pork and turkey are used, though) fillet in bread crumbs (which some say is of Austrian origin, calling it "Wienerschnitzel"). Other typical dishes are cassoeula (stewed pork rib chops and sausage with Savoy cabbage and tomato sauce), ossobuco (stewed marrow-bone with tomato or lemon sauce), risotto alla milanese (with saffron, white wine and beef marrow), busecca (stewed tripe with beans and tomato sauce), and brasato (stewed beef or pork with wine and potatoes). Season-related pastries include chiacchiere (fried flat cookies) and tortelli (fried spherical cookies) for Carnival, colomba (glazed cake shaped as a dove) for Easter, pane dei morti ("Bread of the Dead", cookies aromatized with cinnamon) for All Soul's Day and panettone for Christmas. The salame milanese, a salami with a very thin grain, is widespread throughout Italy. The best known Milanese cheese is gorgonzola.
Education
Milan is home to many universities and other institutions of higher learning.
General universities
Medical
Architecture and engineering
Business, economic and social
- Bocconi University
- Scuola Superiore di Direzione Aziendale - Bocconi
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Language, art and music
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- Università I.U.L.M.
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera - Academy of fine arts
- Scuola Beato Angelico
- Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - NABA
- Conservatorio Superiore "G. Verdi" di Milano
- Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo alla Scala
Fashion and design
- Politecnico di Milano - Facoltà del Design
- Domus Academy, Postgraduate School of Design
- Istituto Marangoni
- Istituto Europeo di Design
- SPD Scuola Politecnica Di Design
Other
- I.S.E.F. Milano - Centro accademico sportivo "Rino Fenaroli"
Transportation
Airports
The city has a large international airport known as Malpensa International Airport (MXP), located near the industrial towns of Busto Arsizio and Gallarate and connected to the downtown with the "Malpensa Express" railway service (from Cadorna Station). Malpensa was designed by the famous Ettore Sottsass. Milan also has the Linate Airport (LIN) within the city limits (for European and domestic traffic), connected with bus line 73 (from S. Babila). A third airport is Orio al Serio (BGY), close to the city of Bergamo. Vergiate, Venegono, Bresso, Voghera and Montichiari are additional airports in the region.
Subways, tramways, trolleybuses and buses
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Milan has 3 subway lines (M1 - red, M2 - green, M3 - yellow) and the system, called Milan Metro - "La Metro", running for more than 80 km. There is also a light metro-service, "Metrò S. Raffaele", connecting the San Raffaele Hospital with Cascina Gobba station (M2). Extensions of lines 1, 2 and 3 are under construction, to create more than 15 km of track with 10 new stations. Line 5 is also under construction, to be finished in the first half of 2012. Lines 4 (linking downtown with Linate Airport) and 6 are in planning stages.
The "Blue Line" also connects four of the city's subway stations directly with the greater railroad system at the Garibaldi, Repubblica and P.ta Venezia stations.
Greater Milan also has one of the most extensive tramway systems [citation needed] in the world, with more than 286 km of track, and 20 lines.
Milan also has four trolleybus routes; included in the fleet are ten air-conditioned Cristalis trolleybuses.
Ninety-three bus lines cover over 1,070 km between them. The local transportation authority (ATM) transported more than 600 million passengers in 2003 .
Railways
Milan is the second railway hub of Italy, and the five major stations of Milan, amongst which the Milan Central station, are among Italy's busiest. The first railroad built in Milan, the Milan and Monza Rail Road was opened for service on August 17th, 1840.
High speed train lines are under construction all across Italy, and new lines will open from Milan to Rome and Naples, and from Milan to Torino. The stations for the TAV (Treni ad Alta Velocità - High Speed Trains) will be:
- Milano Rogoredo (for the south)
- Milano Certosa and Milano/Rho Fiera (for the west)
A line from Milan to Venice and then to Trieste is under construction. [citation needed] At the end of the work, the TAV station for Milan to the east will be:
- Milano Pioltello
Regional-Metropolitan Railway services
The Suburban Railway Service ( "S" Lines, a service similar to the French RER and German S-Bahn), composed of eight suburban lines and ten more scheduled for 2008, connects the "Greater Milan" to cities such as Como and Varese. The Regional Railway Service ("R"), instead, links Milan with the rest of Lombardy and the national railway system. The "Passante ferroviario" is an underground railway serving a couple of "S" lines and is very much like another subway line (and is even marked as such on subway maps), except that it is connected to LeNord and Trenitalia suburban networks. See the map of the M (subway) + S (regional metropolitan railway) Network on msrmilano.com Go on [7]
Taxis
Milan has a taxi service operated by private companies and licensed by the City of Milan (Comune di Milano). All taxis are the same color, white. Prices are based on time elapsed and distance traveled. As the number of licences is kept low by lobbying of present taxi drivers, prices are fairly high (significantly higher than, for example, in New York) and finding a taxi may be difficult in rush hours.
Sports
The city hosted, among other events, the FIFA World Cup in 1934 and 1990, the UEFA European Football Championship in 1980.
Football is the most popular sport in Italy, and Milan is home to two world-famous football teams: A.C. Milan and Internazionale. The former is normally referred to as "Mìlan" (notice the stress on the first syllable, unlike the English and Milanese name of the city), the latter as "Inter".
Milan is the only city in Europe whose teams have won both the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. Both teams play at Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium (85,700). Many of the strongest Italian football players were born in Milan, in the surrounding metropolitan area, or in Lombardy: Valentino Mazzola, Paolo Maldini, Giuseppe Meazza, Giacinto Facchetti, Luigi Riva, Gaetano Scirea, Giuseppe Bergomi, Walter Zenga, Antonio Cabrini, Roberto Donadoni, Gianluca Vialli, Silvio Piola, Giampiero Boniperti, Gabriele Oriali, Giovanni Trapattoni and Franco Baresi as well as many others.
- The famous Monza Formula One circuit is located near the city, inside a wide park. It is one of the world's oldest car racing circuits. The capacity for the F1 races is currently around 137,000 spectators, although in the 1950s the stands could hold more than 250,000. It has hosted an F1 race nearly every year since the first year of competition, exception made of 1980.
- Olimpia Milano is a successful European basketball team. It is the most important Italian team and one of the top 5 in Europe. Olimpia play at the Forum (capacity 14,000)
- Rhinos Milano American Football Club is the oldest American football club in Milan and have won four Italian Super Bowls. They are one of the five foundation clubs of the Italian Football League.
- CUS Milano Baseball is the oldest baseball club in Milan and have won eight Italian Scudetti.
- The Amatori Rugby Milano have won 18 National Championships and are the most famous and important Rugby team in Italy.
- Different ice hockey teams from Milan have won 30 National Championships between them. The Vipers Milano have won the last 5 national championships, the Alpenliga and several Coppa Italia, and are the leaders of that sport in Italy. They play at the Agora Stadium (capacity 4,500) during the regular season, and at the Forum during playoffs
- Every year, Milan hosts the Bonfiglio Trophy Under 18 Tennis Tournament. It is the most important youth tournament in the world, and is played at the Milan Tennis Club. The central court has a capacity of 8000. Past winners include Tacchini, Jan Kodes, Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Moreno, Björn Borg, Smid, Ivan Lendl, Guy Forget, Jim Courier, Goran Ivanišević, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Guillermo Coria.
Milan and Lombardy are candidates for the Summer Olympic Games of 2020 ("Milan-Lombardy 2020").
Stadia
- Autodromo Nazionale Monza - car and motorcycle racing - 137,000
- San Siro - only football; Milan and Inter - 85,700
- Arena Civica - Athletics, Rugby, Football, American Football 30,000
- Brianteo - Athletics, Football - 18,568
- Ippodromo del Trotter - Horse Racing - 16,000
- Ippodromo del Galoppo - Horse Racing - 15,000
- Forum di Assago - Basketball, Ice Hockey, Volleyball, Music - 13,000 to 16,000
- MazdaPalace - Basketball, Volleyball - 13,500
- Velodromo Vigorelli - Cycling, American Football - 12,000
- PalaLido - Basketball - 5,000
- Agorà - Ice Hockey - 4,000
- Nuovo Giuriati - Rugby - 4,000
There are other stadiums and multiuse palaces located in the metropolitan area, the biggest being Monza Brianteo Stadium (18,000 seats), the PalaDesio (10,000) and Geas Stadium (8,500).
Club | League | Sport | Venue | Established | Championships |
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A.C. Milan | Serie A | Football | San Siro - Giuseppe Meazza | 1899 | 3 World cups; 7 European championship; 17 Italian championship |
F.C. Internazionale Milano | Serie A | Football | San Siro - Giuseppe Meazza | 1908 | 2 World cups; 2 European championship; 15 Italian championship |
Olimpia Milano | Serie A | Basketball | Datchforum | 1936 | 1 World cup; 3 European championship; 25 Italian championship |
H.C. Milano/Milano Vipers | Serie A | Ice Hockey | Agorà | 1924 | 2 European championship; 20 Italian championship |
H.C. Diavoli/Devils today settled in Courmayeur | Serie A | Ice Hockey | – | 1930 | 3 European championship; 7 Italian championship |
Amatori Rugby Milano | Serie B | Rugby | Stadio Giuriati | 1928 | 18 Italian championship |
Rhinos Milano | Serie A2 | American Football | Velodromo Vigorelli-Maspes | 1977 | 4 Italian championship |
Communication and media
Milan is the base of operations for many local and nationwide communication services and businesses, such as newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio stations.
Newspapers
- Corriere della Sera
- Il Giorno
- Il Giornale
- Libero
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- Milano Finanza
- La Padania
- La Gazzetta dello Sport (sports only)
Magazines
- Panorama (weekly)
- La Settimana Enigmistica
- Abitare (architecture & design monthly)
- Casabella (architecture & design monthly)
- Domus (architecture & design monthly)
Twin cities
See also
Notes
- ^ http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2006/index.html- ISTAT demographics
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_4_34/ai_106388962
- ^ medius + lanum; Alciato's "etymology" is intentionally far-fetched.
- ^ Bituricis vervex, Heduis dat sucula signum.
- ^ Laniger huic signum sus est, animálque biforme, Acribus hinc setis, lanitio inde levi.
- ^ Alciato, Emblemata, Emblema II
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Milan, Italy". Weatherbase. 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
- ^ http://www.lankaramaya.com/
- ^ http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/8/4.aspx
- ^ http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=7230
- ^ http://www.protestantiamilano.it/
- ^ http://www.milanovaldese.it/
References
- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
- The later Roman empire (Jones), Blackwell and Mott, Oxford
- Milano romana / Mario Mirabella Roberti (Rusconi publisher) 1984
- Marchesi, i percorsi della Storia Minerva Italica (It)
- Acts of international convention "Milan Capital"), Convegno archeologico internazionale Milano
capitale dell'impero romano [1990 ; Milano] Altri autori: Sena Chiesa, Gemma Arslan, Ermanno A.
- Milano tra l'eta repubblicana e l'eta augustea : atti del Convegno di studi, 26-27 marzo 1999, Milano
- Milano capitale dell'impero romano : 286-402 d.c. - (Milano) : Silvana, (1990). - 533 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Milano capitale dell'Impero romano : 286-402 d. C. : album storico archeologico. - Milano : Cariplo : ET, 1991. - 111 p. : ill. ; 47 cm. ((Pubbl. in occasione della Mostra tenuta a Milano nel 1990.
- Agostino a Milano: il battesimo : Agostino nelle terre di Ambrogio : 22-24 aprile 1987 / (relazioni di) Marta Sordi ... (et al.) Augustinus publ.
- Anselmo, conte di Rosate : istoria milanese al tempo del Barbarossa / Pietro Beneventi , Europia publ.
External links
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- City of Milan - official website
- City of Milan - official Virtual Tour website
- City of Milan - touristic guide
- ATM - Milan's Transportation Company
- Milan's Underground System