Meeting with the driver and the guide in hotel.
A trip amongst the elegant and refined homes of the aristocratic families including Villa Reale, the neoclassic Palazzo Serbelloni and Palazzo Clerici with its sumptuous frescoes.
Itinerary: Corso Venezia formerly called Corso di Porta Orientale, this famous and popular street was named after the gate in the medieval walls corresponding to present-day Via Senato. The same name was given to the quarter, whose emblem is the lion on the column in front of the church of San Babila. Corso venezia was lined with relatively few buildings and bordered by kitchen gardens and orchards until the mid 18th century, when the reforms carried out the Maria Theresa of Austria led to the construction of the numerous patrician Palazzi, that make this one of Milan's most elegant streets.
Villa Reale Milan's modern Art Gallery is housed in a Neo- Classical Villa built by Leopold Pollack in 1790 for Counts Ludovico Barbiano di Belgioioso. The Villa also houses the Grassi and Vismara Collections of 19th and 20th century Italian and foreign artists (including Impressionists, Matisse, Picasso, Morandi) as well as the Marino Marini Museum.
Palazzo Castiglioni: The Palazzo was built by Giuseppe Sommaruga in 1904. There were once two female nudes on the faced (later removed), hence its name Cà di Ciapp (House of Buttocks).
Palazzo Serbelloni: Completed in 1793 by Simone Cantoni, this Palazzo played host to Napoleon and Vittorio Emanule. It is one of the most imposing examples of Milanese Neo-Classical architecture.
Casa Fontana Silvestri: the rare example of a Renaissance residence in Milan was built in the late 15th century by Angelo Fontana. The windows on the façade are framed in brick and the portal by candelabrum columns.
Return to hotel.
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