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All places →Duomo di MilanoWorth a stopLandmarksStand in the square a good while before you go anywhere near the door. Pale marble and a whole forest of spires - there are around 135 of them - against a hard blue sky, and it's far bigger than any photograph makes it look. They started it in 1386 and were still finishing details into the twentieth century, which you can feel. Go up onto the roof if you do one thing: you walk out among the spires themselves, which is completely unlike looking at it from below.MilanWorth a stopTownsMilan gets called a business city with one good cathedral, which is unfair but not entirely wrong. The Castello Sforzesco is brick and enormous with the park running out behind it, and then out by Cadorna there's a giant needle threading a knot of red, yellow and green up out of the pavement, which is wonderfully daft and my favourite thing I saw. Walk the Galleria even if you buy nothing, and do aperitivo properly in the early evening - you order a drink and the food arrives with it.