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

E-mail: brera.artimi@arti.beniculturali.it

Website: http://www.brera.beniculturali.it

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.

Italian press - Chapter 1

Corriere della Sera: founded in 1876, is the most istitutional newspaper of Italy. During all these years the Corriere della Sera has pubblished some of the most prestigious signatures of italian journalism like Indro Montanelli, Enzo Biagi, Sergio Romano and many others. Actually you can read on it about politics, current events, sport and culture.

La Repubblica: historic italian newspaper, La Repubblica is the main competitor of the Corriere della Sera, with a moderate centre-left political stance. Born exactly 100 years after the Corriere della Sera, its main topic is politics, but you will find current events, sport and culture too.

La Gazzetta dello Sport: the most read of italian newspapers, it should tell about different sports, but hey...we’re italians....so...football, soccer and 22 people running behind a ball!
Unmistakable with its pink sheets it’s also one of the most exported newspaper abroad. Someone said: “An italian man far from home will miss pasta, but you can be sure he’ll find the Gazzetta!”.

Leggo: the most read free-press newspaper in Italy, it has almost the same readers of the Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. Its main competitors are Metro and City and you can find it at every underground stop.

Bonelli: the Italian excellence in comics!

A quick and easy way to learn Italian? Comics, of course! And in Italy, when you say comics, you say Bonelli.

Sergio Bonelli Editore is the main Italian comics publisher since the ‘50s, with more than 25 million copies distributed every year. About 30 different headings, with different characters and different stories, a unique mark in drawing and a huge attention to the stories are the peculiarities of this great italian publisher.

The main headings of Bonelli’s choice are:

Dylan Dog – The nightmare investigator. Created by Tiziano Sclavi, Dylan Dog is a gentle, vegetarian detective who investigates, together with his assistant Groucho (...so similar to Groucho Marx...) about strange events in a contemporary London.

Tex – Created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini in far 1948, it’s still one of the most read comics in Bonelli’s list. Set in the far west, the comic tells about the adventures of Tex Willer, Kit Carson, Kit Willer and Tiger Jack.

Martin Mystère – Martin Mystère was created by writer Alfredo Castelli and drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini. Martin Mystère is an art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, adventurer, writer, TV producer and collector of unusual objects. After the unexplained death of his parents in a plane crash, he starts to devote his studies to the most enigmatic events and places of human history.

You can find Bonelli comics in every newsstand in town! Have fun!

GAM - The Modern Art Gallery in Milan

Created with donations made by rich milanese collectors, the Modern Art Gallery, together with the Brera museum, the Triennale and the Permanente, is one of the most rapresentative places for art in Milan.

Visiting the GAM you can have an interesting overview of the evolution of italian modern art, watching paintings of artists like Pellizza Da Volpedo, Severini, De Chirico, Morandi, Carrà, Sironi, Fontana, Manzoni and many others.

Ah, I was forgetting... the entrance is absolutely free!

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art
Via Palestro, 16 (underground line 1, Palestro stop) - Milan - Italy

Opening: from Tuesday to Sunday, 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Tel. +39 02 76002819

Not only fashion boutiques: Milan it's a cozy destination also for low budget travellers

Worldwide known as the capital of Italian style, Milan is often considered only just a shopping-travel destination, suitable for Russian nouveau riches, Japanese fashion victims and members of the Saudi real family.

This is true, but it's not all the story. Milan offers much for art and architecture enthusiasts, for italian food lovers and for night life addicted too. Its 7 universties are home for almost 200.000 students and in its neighbourhood you'll find such natural wonders like Como's lake and historical towns like Pavia.
We should admit, that The Big Milan's problem are its prices. Fashion and business oriented hotels can rarely offer one night stay under 70 €/person. Restaurants are delicious, but be prepared to leave 40 Euros for a pasta and "cotoletta milanese" if you are in downtown. And while ordering a cocktail in a trendy bar, don't expect bargains: 15 Euros for a mojito it's the rule.
Scared? ;) Well, according to an old italian saying - "the evil is not as bad, as people describe it". "Milan low cost" team will find you cozy accomodation solutions for reasonable prices; good food you won't pay a fortune; transport system information without considering taxi cabs; clubs to visit, and others to avoid....... and much more!!!

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Maybe we don't speak Oxford English, but We breathe Milan air everyday! ;)