Tour with Private Guide: walking tour and the Cathedral
Duration: 3 hours
Frequency: everyday except Sundays and official holidays.
Tour Itinerary
This tour permits you to see the most famous areas of the centre of Milan, the main monuments of the city as Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza della Scala, the most famous streets of the fashion area and the amazing treasures of the gothic cathedral, unique for its spires and pinnacles.
Price includes: guide service for 2 hours and 30 minutes, audioguides for groups bigger than 10 participants. It does not include the entrance ticket for the Cathedral that has to be paid on site and the visit at the terrasse of the Cathedral.
Groups from 4 to 25 participants have to pay 5,00 euro in addition for the entrance of the Cathedral with reservation and internal earphones. In fact it is not possible to use your own earphones inside the Cathedral.
Other languages: for guided tours in Dutch, Swedish and Polish please call our offices at the 0039 055 2670402 or send an e-mail at info@italy-travels.it.For guided tour in Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese we suggest you to reserve with 3/5 working days in advance.
Milano’s Cathedral
Milano’s Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente and it is placed in the city centre just next to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. It is one of the bigger religious buildings in Europe, the first one in Italy, a huge example of gothic architecture.
The works began in 1387 and it rose where once there was the winter cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore and the summer Basilica of Santa Tecla, which were both demolished to create space for the Cathedral. The works were committed by the archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo and the city mayor Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
The works for the Cathedral began 6 centuries ago and went on for all these centuries. The Basilica is formed by 5 naves and a transept with 3 naves. There are a lot of elements that make this Cathedral unique: the several sculptures, around 3400, sculpted between 1400 and 1900, they mostly represent saints, patriarchs, prophets and martyrs; the 55 monumental windows and the statue of the golden “Madonnina” 4,16 meters high, inaugurated in 1774. It was made by Giuseppe Perego, and placed at the highest point of the Cathedral, the crypt where San Carlo Borromeo rests and the terraces from where there is a splendid sight of Milan. The Cathedral guards many works that had a teaching purpose for the believers, which could experience faith with their eyes. There are also some paintings, especially of the period of Borromeo. A lot of architects and artists worked at this construction site and every one of them influenced it with their own style, which nevertheless remained basically as late gothic.
Milano Photogallery
Our guides
Italy Travels tour guides staff is represented by licensed guides of great experience and high level of professionalism, competence and excellence on their job. All Italy Travels guides are authorized by the provincial administration of Milan and most of them are art historians and teachers in art subjects.
All private tours organized by Italy Travels always include pre-reserved museum tickets when museum tours are included in the tour itinerary. In this way visitors avoid waisting time waiting in line in front of museums ticket offices.