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11. Milan {Plate 41). 



Milan (in German, Mailand), the capital of the Lombardo- Venetian king- 

 dom, although an ancient-looking, irregular city, still possesses some recently 

 built palaces and churches, with many beautiful streets. The first rank 

 amongst the public buildings is assumed by the celebrated Cathedral, 454 

 feet long, 275 broad, built entirely of white marble, and adorned, or rather over- 

 loaded, externally, with not less than 4000 statues ; of the other seventy-eight 

 churches, we may mention San Lorenzo, with antique marble columns, and 

 Madonna presso San Celso ; of the convents, the former Dominican Convent 

 of Santa Maria delle Grazie, containing the renowned, but now almost 

 entirely destroyed, fresco painting by Leonardo da Vinci, of the Last 

 Supper ; likewise the Palace della Corte, the Government Palace, the Palace 

 of the Archbishop, the Mint, the Palace of the Court of Appeal, the Theatre 

 della Scala, with 400 boxes, and capable of seating 7000 persons (in addition 

 to which, Milan has six other theatres) ; the large hospital. The principal 

 collections of art and science are : the Palace Brera, formerly belonging to 

 the Jesuits, with a library, a gallery of antiques and paintings, a botanic 

 garden, and an observatory : also, the celebrated Ambrosian Library, with 

 15,000 manuscripts, and a large cabinet of coins. There still remains to be 

 mentioned the circus, built under Napoleon in the ancient style, and capable 

 of seating 30,000 persons, with an arrangement for filling the arena with 

 water : also the Marble Arch of Peace, commenced in 1807, by Napoleon, 

 and completed in 1829 ; it is eighty-four feet high, forty-two broad, with 

 ^eight marble columns forty-two feet high and two feet thick, and entirely 

 covered with alto relievos. The most frequented promenade is the Corso. 

 The place of a river is supplied by the Grand Naviglio Canal, commenced 

 in 1271 ; it is nineteen miles long, and goes by the Abbiate Grosso into the 

 Ticino. 



Explanation of the Plan. 



A. Piazza del Duomo. • 6. Tipografia Reale, 



B. " dei Marcanti. 7. Palazzo della Contabilita generale. 



C. " del Palazzo Reale. 8. S. Pietro Celestino. 



D. " Fontana. 9. San Damiano. 



E. " ■ della Vetra. 10. San Pietro in Gessate. 



F. " eParochiadiS.Eustorgio. 11. Collegio Imp. delle Fanciulle.^ 



G. Foppone, ossia Campo Santo. 12. La Guastalla, Collegio. 

 H. Ponte di Porta Romana. 13. Ospedale di S. Catterina, 



1. Piazza e Parrochia di S. Marco. 14. Santa Maria del Paradiso. 



2. Collegio delle Vevode. 15. San Calimero. 



3. Ospedale de' Fatebene-Fratelli. 16. Orfanotrofio Miht. di S. Luca. 



4. Collegio de' NobiH. 17. La Vittoria. 



5. San Bartolomeo. 18. S. Calogero. 



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