Duomo Hotels
Milan is a chic, prosperous destination and boasts such treasures as the Duomo Cathedral, La Scala Opera House and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Its reputation dwells in its status as Italy's financial, media and fashion centre.
The iconic Duomo’s most starling feature is the extraordinary roof, with its 135 spires, gargoyles and innumerable marble statues. “The Madonnina” a beautiful gilded statue, 4 metres tall, graces the top of the Duomo's highest pinnacle. Inside, the 52 pillars correspond to the weeks of the year while, on their capitals, imposing saints stretch up into the cross vaults of the ceiling. A nail allegedly from Jesus’ cross hangs at the apex of the apse’s vaulted roof. On a pedestal opposite the Medici monument there’s a remarkably life-like statue of a flayed St Bartholomew – an incredibly accurate study of human anatomy carved in 1562 by Marco d’Agrate, a student of Leonardo da Vinci.