Milan and the Lakes Eyewitness Travel

MILAN & THE LAKES THE GUIDES THAT SHOW YOU WHAT OTHERS ONLY TELL YOU EYEWITNESS TRAVEL ART GALLERIES ESTA UR A A ANTS R R • MAPS FASHION • O PE R A R R CHURCHES • M U SE U MS • VILLAS S H O PPI N G • HOTELS • W ALKS W W NORTHWEST MILA N Pages 6 0–75 S treet Finder maps 1, 2, 3, 7 NOR T HWES T M IL A N S OUTHWEST MIL A N P a g es 7 6 –91 S treet Finder maps 6 , 7, 8 S S OUTH W EST MILA N T HE L A KES OF NORTHER N I TALY Pages 128–155 M i l an A r ea b y A r e a N OR TH E AS T M IL A N H I S T O RI C C E N TRE E S OU THEA S T MILA N S OU THEA S T MILA N P a g es 92 – 103 Street Fin d er ma p s 7, 8 H IS T O RI C C E N TRE Pages 42–59 S treet Fin d er ma p s 9, 1 0 NORTHEAST MILA N Pages 104–123 Street Finder maps 3, 4 0 m et r es 0 y ards 600 600 M ILA N & THE L A KE S EYEWITNESS TRAVEL [...]... R A AND THE LAKES 1011 PUTTING MILAN ON THE MAP 1215 THE HISTORY OF MILAN 1627 RY MILAN AT A GLANCE 2835 MILAN THROUGH THE YEAR 3639 R I N T R O D U C I N G 10 M I L A N FOUR GREAT DAYS IN MILAN AND THE LAKES A couple of days in Milan will head to the lakes The trips to give you a good idea of the Lake Como and Lake Maggiore city’s riches Two of the will show why these locations are itineraries... conquered by the Germanic Eruli in 476 and then by Ostrogoths in 489 During the war between the Greek Byzantines and Goths, the city, allies of the former, was attacked by the Goths and utterly destroyed Reconstruction began in 568, when the city was reconquered by the Byzantine general Narses, who was forced to cede it to the Lombards in the following year Milan was then ruled by the city of Pavia The few... structures of the time (1018–45), were both bishops and In 774, the Franks generals In 1042 the free defeated the Lombards commune of Milan was and conquered Northern founded and a new city Italy The archbishops wall built It was regained power and demolished in 1162 when, there was a revival of the after a siege, the Milanese economy with the rise of were forced to open their an artisan and merchant... gardens Lakeside strolls Palatial villas TWO ADULTS allow at least €48 L Morning Begin the day at Como (see p142), on the southwest arm of the lake Wander along the lakeside promenade, browse the silk outlets, and visit the impressive Duomo and the museum of notable scientist Alessandro Volta Then head up to the lovely resort town of Bellagio (see p145) The tip of Bellagio’s promontory is occupied by the. .. Scipio Middle Ages Roman Milan was a and Claudius Marcellus, defeated substantial size: the Republican the Celts and conquered the Po walls, enlarged to the northeast river valley and its cities Milan during the Imperial Age, defined an soon became a flourishing commercial area that was roughly the same size centre and in the Imperial era as the present-day city centre THE PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN CITY TIMELINE... Napoleon’s troops in 1796 As the capital of the shortlived Cisalpine Republic, Milan was the setting for Napoleon’s coronation in the Cathedral (1804) and witnessed the construction of various new building projects, including the Foro Bonaparte, the Arena and the Arco della Pace After Napoleon’s defeat, the Congress of Vienna handed Milan back to the Habsburgs, whose Maria Theresa of Austria government,... Milan one of Milan is an avant-garde city by all the world leaders in this field The standards, a financial, professional most recent significant event in the and cultural leader in Italian life THE GROWTH OF MILAN This map shows the growth of Milan from the original f Roman city to the present-day metropolis KEY The Roman city The medieval city Up to the 18th century The 19th century The early 20th... period in the history of Milan: he THE GREAT DYNASTIES A abandoned the Visconti In 1277 at Desio, the expansionist policy and Visconti, under Archbishop secured lasting peace for Ottone, overthrew the the city, which flourished To r r i a n i f a m i l y T h e and grew to a population Visconti then summoned of 100,000 The Visconti the leading artists of the castle was rebuilt and Coat of arms of the Visconti... a relief of the half-woolly Emperor Maximian By boar, once the city emblem the late Imperial era European populations and then, in the 5th Milan was the most century BC, by the Etruscans important city in the West after Around the lakes, archaeologists Rome and it became a leading have unearthed fascinating pre- religious centre after Constantine’s Roman objects that reveal the Edict of Milan in 313,... Frederick Barbaclass, which in the 11th rossa: for the second time century led to the birth of the city was burned to the the commune After ground Milan and other centuries in which Monza northern communes and Pavia had been the together formed the King Rothari proclaims his focal points of Lombardy, edict (643), miniature, Codex Lombard League, which Milan was once again the defeated Barbarossa’s Legum . MILAN & THE LAKES THE GUIDES THAT SHOW YOU WHAT OTHERS ONLY TELL YOU EYEWITNESS TRAVEL ART GALLERIES ESTA UR A A ANTS R R • MAPS FASHION • O PE R A R R CHURCHES • . sights described. The lakes o f Northern Italy are covered in a se p arate cha p ter, also colour coded. The cha p ter on t he lakes o p ens with a road ma p of the r egion. The ma j or sights. Britain . INT RODUCI N G M IL AN AND THE LAKE S FOUR GREA T DAYS IN M ILA N & THE LAKES 1 0 P UTTI N G MILA N ON THE M A P 1 2 T HE HIS T OR Y O F M IL A N 1 6 M IL A N AT A GLA N C E 2 8 MILA N T HR OUG H THE Y E A R 3 6 N aviglio