16th March 2008
We arrived Milan today, my favorite Milanese pastry store - Luini was closed today since it is a Sunday. The fast food takeaway of Luini, just off the Piazza Duomo, is very popular, it specialized in panzerotti, a kind of deep fried folded pizza which are delicious. The panzerotti is actually a traditional dish of Bari, in the the south of Italy, but Luini make an excellent northern version of it, along with many other freshly made cakes and savories. Too bad it is not open today.
When you arrived Milan, you can possible missed the Cathedral. Milan’s impressive navel, Piazza del Duomo, home to Milan’s most visible monument, the cathedral, has been Milan’s social, geographical and pigeon center since medieval time. The cathedral holds a congregation of up to 40,000. The first glimpse of this late Gothic wonder is memorable, with its marble façade shaped into pinnacles, statues and pillars, the whole held together by a web of flying buttresses.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II – Milan’s drawing room, house of many expensive boutiques, the city of fashion probably derive from here...
The next thing I notice in Milan is that everyone is holding some palm leaves and later I realize that it was Palm Sunday (a Sunday preceding Easter). Then I heard some angelic voices singing in Latin and those beautiful voices brought me into the Duomo of Milan. There was a Sunday Mass going on but visitors are still allow to go in cathedral.
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