2008/04/07

Pinacoteca di Brera - The most famous art gallery in Milan

The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the most important art collection in Milan and one of the most interesting in Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

Inaugurated in 1810, the Pinacoteca di Brera houses paintings of artists like: Bramante, Caravaggio, Francesco Hayez, Andrea Mantegna, Modigliani, Piero della Francesca, Raffaello, Rembrandt, Pieter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and many others..

Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera, 28 Milan
Tel: (+39) 02722631
Fax: (+39) 0272001140
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 8:30am - 7:30pm (ticket office opens from 8:30am until 6:45pm).
Closed: Mondays, 1 January, 1 May, 25 December.
Admissions: full € 5,00 - reduced € 2,50.
Disabled visitors: the gallery is accessible by lift from the Soprintendenza entrance. Electric wheelchairs available.
Getting here by public tranport: underground line 2, Lanza stop; underground line 3, Montenapoleone stop; tram 1-4-8-12-14-27; bus 61-97.

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