Art and Culture

Milan's Duomo	Milan's Church	Milan's Basilica	La Scala Opera House & Museum	Skull Chapel
Antonio Mazzotta Foundation	Art Gallery	Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper"	Sforzesco Castle	San Siro Stadium

Sforzesco Castle
The castle was Milan's most important secular Renaissance building. The building began in 1450, upon a preceding construction dating from the fourteenth century. Francesco Sforza wanted it to be his royal domain. It Was enlarged and decorated under Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Ludovico The Moor. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Spanish transformed it into a veritable fortress.
Later fallen into abandon, it was restored by Luca Beltrami. The complex houses the Castle Museums, which include collections of sculptures, paintings, applied arts, prints, and the historical archive of the commune.
Among the artwork worth mentioning are the "Pietà Rondanini", Michelangelo last sulpture; and the following paintings: the "Madonna and the Saints" by Mantegna, a polyptych by Benedetto Bembo, "Madonna with Child" by Giovanni Bellini, the "Pietà" by Bergognone, the "Portrait of a Man" by Correggio and the "Soranzo Portrait" by Tintoretto.
Behind the castle extends a beautiful English park, within which one finds the Civic Arena, the Civic Aquarium, the Peace Arch and the modern Art Palace.