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Day
12
(September 24, 2020) Milan
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Before
We'll leave Lake Como to arrive as soon as possible at
Linate's
airport to deliver the car. We'll take a taxi from there to our
B&B
at Milan's centre and will spend the rest of the day to visit the
places we are specially interested, like Duomo's Square area. We
also have already booked and paid tickets to see Da Vinci's "Last
Supper" at Santa Maria delle Grazie Church at 6:45 PM.
The spots marked at map are:
0- B&B Le Colonne di Milano
1- Piazza del Duomo
2- Church of Santa Maria delle Grazzie
3- Sforza Castle
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After
When we leave the B&B in Como, just after
having our breakfast, it's a bit past 10 AM and, around 11 AM, we're
already delivering the car at Linate Airport. We take a taxi from there
to the hotel. The ride is cheaper than we expected: 24€.
Our room is not ready yet so we leave our luggage
and walk to Duomo's Square, which we reach in 10 minutes. The view of
the cathedral is spectacular.
  
Then we get into the popular Galleria of Vittorio Emanuele II, a
shopping mall that is a highlight by itself. It's a beautiful building
and is full of shops of the fanciest clothing brands and restaurants.
 
We choose one of those restaurant for our last
lunch in Italy. We know it's going to be expensive, but I had the wish
of eating a risotto with Parmesan cheese and they have it here. So we
order that risotto for me, ravioli of cod for Eva and one tiramisu to
share. Everything, with wine and coke makes a total of 69€. It is
including some extras, like slices of pizza while waiting for our meal
and some sweets of meringue and nuts at the end. All of it was
delicious.
 
We decide to come back to the B&B to get
our room and return later here for our visit to the cathedral. After
some rest we're back in the street by 4:30 PM. It starts to rain,
though, so we walk back to take our umbrella from our room Once outside
with the umbrella it is no longer going to rain. That's life!
We pay 3€ per person as admission fees for visiting the cathedral. It
is huge and is quite impressive inside, with those lines of big pillars.
 
We come back to out room to take our tickets that
we got online to see Da Vinci's "Last Supper" and take a taxi to Santa
Maria delle Grazie (Holy Mary of Grace). We pay 9€ for the ride.
 
Even though it's 6:15 PM and our tickets for the
6:45 PM session must be validated before 6:30 PM, we're told it's too
early and make us come back at 6:30 PM. While waiting we can admire the
Church from outside. There is a monk that is not allowing to enter to
the church to anyone that is not invited to the praying event that he
tells me is happening.
 
We get our tickets at 6:30 PM and we're asked to put all bags in a
locker. The case of my camera and Eva's purse are taken as "bags" here
and we have to left them there, although we can take anything we need
from inside, like my camera or Eva's cell phone.
 
At 6:45 PM we get into a long rectangular room
which both short walls are covered with murals. The one at our right is
what we came to see: Da Vinci's Last Supper. We've seen so many
versions of this work that it seems unreal that we're looking at the
original right now.
 
We try to pay attention to every detail. For example, we didn't know
that the feet of the characters were painted too. The mural in the
other wall is bigger and is representing the crucifixion of Jesus and
the two thieves. This work is Montorfano's "Crocifissione". Every
session is of 15 minutes and, when they're reached, the visitants are
requested to leave the room.
 
After taking our belongings from the locker we walk a bit
until reaching Sforza Castle, which appears with lights since it is
already dark. We take another taxi from there to the B&B for which
we pay 8€. Before going to our room we buy some sushi and soup from the
supermarket to make our dinner in the kitchen of the B&B.
 
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