Mount Napoleon Street
Armani, Versace, Gucci, Gianfranco Ferré: on this street lined with elegant buildings, like at piazza Babila and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the big name labels of Italian fashion will tempt you from their window displays!
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Villa Carlotta
A visit to this sumptuous villa set on the end of Lake Como will give you an idea of the luxury employed by 19C aristocratic Italians decorated their second houses! Adorned with numerous statues, including a copy of the Love and Psyche by Canova, the villa is famous for its gardens, a mix of the very ordered Italian style and the English style, reconstructing a tamed natural feel, which descend in terraces down to the lakeside.
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Municipal Museum of Natural History
Geology, Paleontology, Zoology presented with the aid of several dioramas that are quite well made: now here's a handy museum to pull out of you sleeve, when you sit down to negotiate with your kids!
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Church of Saint Mark
This church in the Brera quarter, rebuilt in 1286 on top of ancient foundations, has a black and white fresco of Leonardo da Vinci's school discovered in 1975.
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