La città che sale - The Rising Milan Half Day Tour

The painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni helped to shape the Futurism an avant-garde movement founded in Milan and when 1910 he painted "the city rises" he couldn't imagine that about one century afterwards instead of brownfield you could have seen the complex of exciting buildings that has forever changed the city's skyline. This is called by the Milanese "la città che sale", the rising Milan, and 2012 has become the symbol of the Milan of today. The two new districts were erected next to the very spot where the sixteen century Spanish city walls used to be and are recalled by the city gate Porta Garibaldi. Walking one minute down you find the Leonardo da Vinci's locks that he designed for the Martesana Canal and after sipping a coffee or an aperitivo you come across the Milan's best preserved early Christian monument, the Basilica of San Simpliciano (4th century). The city where I was born and raised, it is a pure combination of contrasts and stratifications!