Castle Museums



Parco Sempione

July 20

Off to Castello Sforzesco accompanied by a couple mounted policemen--well, they were headed in our direction, anyway, and we ended up in the same spot at the same time.

Castello sforzesco

A lot of the Castello is covered by scaffolding as they are attempting to spruce it all up before the next World's Fair to be held here. In a way the castle is already a fake, since it was mostly destroyed by bombs during WWII, but the Milanese rebuilt it and are now restoring the rebuilding from early plans.

Duchal Chapel

Chapel angels

Anyway, they have tons of art work here in the first museum, mostly from the 13th to 16th century.

Ducal Chapel with Madona

Wedding at Cana picture by Marco d'Oggiono

Donna Jo's favorite helmet.  I had to remind her to read the signs in the museum store.

Armor and weapons gallery

From the tomb of Bernabo Visconti                    by Bonino      1363   

Three angels

Then for the second museum you climb 72 stairs and start in the design museum--mostly items that IKEA doesn't carry. Inlay of precious gems,

Then up about 6 more steps we toured more pictures.

Mary, Jesus, John, and angel by Marco d'Oggiono

George and Margaret (who killed her own dragon) by Pellegrino Pellegrini

The inside moat has a population of 80 cats that is taken care of by the city. They've been checked and certified by a vet and now if you attempt to dump your cat here it's a 300 Euro fine. We only managed to see about 4 and had trouble snapping photos.