Italy Trip - Part I - Milan

We started from Aalborg at 12.30 AM on Thursday 13th April. First it was an overnight train journey to Copenhagen as our flight tickets to Milan were from Copenhagen. We reached Copenhagen at 6.30 AM and the flight was only at 12.40pm from there. Had breakfast from airport, and then spent rest of the hours by just walking around and visiting most of the shops and doing bit of shopping. Finally, we boarded to the Sterling flight to Milan.

It took an hour and 50 minutes for the flight to reach Milan. The weather in Milan was so sunny and it was a welcome change for us as we were having an extended winter and cold weather in Denmark. We had a pizza lunch from Milan airport. Milan City centre is 45 km away from the Milan Malpensa airport, we bought bus tickets from outside airport and got into the next bus going to Milan city centre. It took almost an hour for us to reach Milan city. Milan is Italy's industrial, cultural and financial centre - Many parts of Milan city reminded me of Bangalore because of its building structure and heavy traffic on road. First we went to the nearby railway station and booked tickets to Venice for the same night. Having only few hours before our journey to Venice, we decided only to visit the famous Cathedral (Duomo) in Milan. It was few kilometres away from the city and we took metro bus to reach there.

Cathedral - a view from outside

The Cathedral is located in the Piazza del Duomo. I have read from some travelogue that this Duomo has more than 2000 sculptures and numberless spires and capitals. The interior of this cathedral is as impressive as its exterior. On that day there was some religious function happening inside the Cathedral, so there was a checking outside before entering.

Cathedral - a side view

There are lots of monuments inside the Cathedral - Ottone and Giovanni Visconti monuments, Medici grave, Pope Martin V monument to name a few. There is a big square in front of the Cathedral's main facade which was heavily crowed by tourists and local people - that place looked like an evening relaxing place for them.

Galleria Emmanuelle

Then we visited the nearby places like Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle, which is a covered street and connects the Piazza Duomo with Piazza della Scala. Finally we returned back to railway station to catch the train to Venice at 8PM. And the train reached Venice railway station Venezia Santa Lucia by 11.10PM