The two o'clock bells at Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan

Two days in Milano (tomorrow, the Dolomites)

Il Duomo

the doors, adorned with multiple sculptures, seen from the inside

the floor, the carved pews

De Medici tomb + tourists
for more pictures from the interior of Il Duomo, check out
an earlier post at
http://fourlegsgood.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-road-in-milan-trento-and-bolzano.html

shopping complex on the Piazza Del Duomo

street scenes of Milan

me, the Italian sky overhead

Leonardo at the Piazza della Scala

La Scala opera house, outside and in

taking a picture of Leonardo's statue from inside La Scala

soft rain on the second day in Milan

Santa Maria della Grazie - closing in on The Last Supper
(no photos allowed)

from the train on our way out of Milan, heading for the Dolomites

On the road in Milan, Trento and Bolzano...

Trento, the Palace of the Archbishop, a musem...and other pics from Trento follow...

And on to Bolzano. On a bridge above the Adige River, bikes cut loose, but locks remain.

Then an education in Fascist-era Architecture. Not pretty, nor graceful - compare to the few images of Renaissance Architecture from Trento, above.

Then on to Milan, where one does one's penance at the Duomo.

The Flayed San Bartolomeo by artist Marco d’Agrate dates from 1562. A truly remarkable statue, as the Saint appears with his skin draped around him.

Then on to more of the details, the artwork and the architecture of the cathedral.

A sarcophagus of the De Medici's, and below, a confessional.

The Baptismal font

A reliquary of St. Sebastian, and then the cathedral's exterior.

La Scala...then from the sublime to the sublimely ordinary - shop windows of a door store on the Viale Lombardia, Milan.

On the Metropolitana.