The castle itself is a sight to behold. It features three inner courtyards and has a square plan with dominating towers. The main entrance of the castle takes you right to the Piazza d’Armi, an expansive inner courtyard. The other two courtyards are enclosed by the palatial residences. The Cortile della Rocchetta, one of the smaller inner courtyards features a large number of frescoes and three arcades, designed by three different architects.

The Corte Ducale, the inner courtyard which lies to the right of the residences, features a beautiful loggia, the Loggetta di Galeazzo Maria. Its design has renaissance elements in it. It too features several frescoes. It even has one by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Today the castle houses a number of museums and is therefore called the Musei Civici. The Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco is the most important out of these museums. It features a marvelous art collection which showcase beauties like Michelangelo’s last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà, Andrea Mantegna’s Trivulzio Madonna and Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Trivulzianus manuscript

The Museum of Musical Instruments and the Applied Arts Collection lies on the first and second floor of the Rocchetta house and features historic musical instruments such as a 16th century Venetian harpsichord, a glass harmonica and a Flemish double virginal as well as objects in gold, silver, glass, porcelain, ivory and wrought iron from the Middle Ages up to the 19th century.

The Egyptian and Prehistoric sections of the Archaeological Museum is situated in the basement floors around the Ducal Courtyard. The Museum of Ancient Art occupies the ground floor its exhibits include Italian paintings by painters like Andrea Mantegna’s Trivulzio Madonna, a 4th century sarcophagus and the 14th century Mausoleum of Bernabò Visconti. Besides these the museum also has the Achille Bertarelli Print Collection.

Besides the music, the architecture is breathtaking. The previous theatre, the Teatro Regio Ducale was destroyed by a fire and the La Scala was constructed in its place. Over a period of two years the theatre was completed by Pietro Marliani, Pietro Nosetti and Antonio and Giuseppe Fe. It has one of the largest stages in the whole of Italy and over 3,000 seats organized into 678 pit-stalls.

Recently the opera house was renovated by renowned architect Mario Botta. The new changes were not welcomed by the preservationists. They have however, improved the Opera’s quality threefold. Monitors for the electronic libretto system have been included in the seats that allow the audience to choose the language which they prefer. The entire sound system has been updated and the stage has been reconstructed as well.

7 December, Saint Ambrose’s Day, is when the La Scala season begins. Besides the performances, La Scala also features a museum called The Museo Teatrale alla Scala which displays paintings, drafts, statues, costumes, and other documents regarding La Scala’s and opera history in general. Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo or the Academy of Performing Arts is also organised by La Scala with the objective of encouraging new musicians with blossoming talents. The La Scala Theatre Academy is a school assosciated with La Scala and offeres trainging in the various arts of musical performances, which also includes stage craft and stage management.

The construction of the stadium commenced in 1925 under the idea of Piero Pirelli, the president of AC Milan who wanted to have a stadium in the same district as the horse racing track. The architects designed a private stadium only for football without the athletics tracks. First match was held in this stadium with 35, 000 spectators on September 19, 1926. In the match, Internazionale defeated Milan 6–3. In 1947 Internazionale became tenants and now it shares ground with Milan. Also, the Italian national team uses the stadium for occasional games and it has also been used for the 1965, 1970, and 2001 UEFA Champions League finals.

The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $60 million being spent, bringing the stadium up to UEFA category four standard. The stadium now has an extra tier added to three sides of the stadium. This entailed the building of 11 concrete towers around the outside of the stadium. Four of these concrete towers were being located at the corners to support a new roof which has distinctive protruding red girders.

There are many classy hotels near San Siro stadium. Some of them are Enterprise Hotel with 126 rooms and within 1.6 miles of the stadium, Hotel Capitol with 66 classic rooms and within 2 miles of the stadium, The Hub within 2.3 miles, Idea Hotel Milano Watttredici within 2.9 miles and with 87 rooms and many more.

Brera Apartments Milan: Located close to shopping street of Via Moscova and the Metro stop of Via Turati, the accommodation offers 50 sqm with double bed, sofa for two children, American living with kitchen, private bathroom and up to date quality service of a four star hotel of Milan.

Piero Rotta Youth Hostel: Situated at a quiet location in Molino Dorino, it offers quality services of a five star hotel.

Isola Apartments, Milan: The place stands at “Isola” near the Garibaldi Train Station and offers luxury and elegant apartments along with cooking corner, private bathroom and balcony.

Sweet Hostel: This compact hostel has three 6 bed mixed dorms and a room for the owners.

The Carlton Hotel Baglioni: If luxury is your choice, this 5 star hotel, situated in the heart of Milan, directly overlooking Via della Spiga is just the right option. Via Montenapoleone, the cathedral and the famous La Scala theatre are situated a short distance away.

The Seven Stars Galleria Hotel: This is yet again a unique and prestigious property, assuring the highest level of service. Each room is catered to by a professional butler.

Park Hyatt Milan: This is an elegant boutique hotel, set in a palatial classical building dating back to 1870 and boasting of interiors designed by Ed Tuttle. The hotel has two fine restaurants, VUN and La Cupola.

Town House 8, 5 star hotel in Milan

•  Overview of the Hotel: The hotel is located within the premises of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in the center of Milan; Town House 8 presents the luxurious amenities and superior services in a fashionable, famous setting. A luxurious, Bentley limousine is also available for rent whenever required in the hotel. The hotel also has a lounge restaurant, La Sinfonia. Endowed with a full bar, the restaurant offers about 24 hour in-room dining. Its menu even differentiates as according to season and the chef there provides a gourmet set each and every day. The hotel has total 11 rooms.

• Amenities at the Hotel: With respect to general facilities in the hotel they comprise of restaurant, bar, 24-hour front desk, newspapers, terrace, non-smoking rooms, rooms/facilities for disabled guests, elevator, express check-in/check-out, safe, soundproofed rooms, chapel/shrine, heating, design hotel, baggage storage, stores in hotel, ski storage, allergy-free room, public and private spaces non-smoking, air conditioning. In room services in the hotel it includes as the meeting/banquet facilities, business center, babysitting/child services, laundry, vip room facilities, breakfast in the room, ironing service, honeymoon suite, currency exchange, souvenirs/gift shop, bicycle rental, shoe shine, packed lunches, car rental, tour desk, fax/photocopying and ticket service.

•  Hotel Rules: As for the hotel rules and policies there is applied a set of same rules at the common area of the hotel whereas for the varying rooms the hotel policy and rules are applied and change accordingly. The check in time into the hotel is 14:00 hours and the checkout time is about 07:00 to 12:00 hours. The cancellation and prepayment policy too vary there according to the room type. Pets are allowed on request. The hotel accepts credit cards like as American Express, Visa, Euro-Mastercard and CartaSi.

•    Hotel Room Types and Rates:

Double or Twin Room with Courtyard View: € 411.81 (per night )

Some major acquisitions for the libraries there were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of Bobbio (1606) and the library of the Paduan Vincenzo Pinelli, where about 800 manuscripts that were kept in 70 cases were distributed around to Milan and there they included the famous Iliad, the Ilia Picta. It was Cardinal Borromeo’s stay in Rome, during he dreamt and thought about developing this library in Milan. At the time his primary objective was to open this library for scholars as it would works as a bulwark of   Catholic scholarship in the service of the Counter-Reformation against the treatises issuing from Protestant presses. I order to keep around those 15,000 manuscripts and twice the books as the number of manuscripts the construction for the library as started from the 1603 under designs and direction of Lelio Buzzi and Francesco Maria Richini. When it opened to the masses in year 1609 and on the date 8th December it was the second pubic library after the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

The uniqueness of the library was that it evolved the method of books as being arranged in cases along the walls instead of kept or packed on the reading tables. A medieval practice is still seen till toady in the Laurentian Library of Florence. There a printing press was too added to the library and there a school was formed for teaching in the classical languages. There after the regular acquisition was held there as added by bequests, required enlargement of the space as well. Borromeo planned an academy that became operational since 1611-18 to keep the Cardinal paintings and drawings as it the nucleus and core of the Pinacoteca.  Cardinal Borromeo even donated his personal collections of paintings and drawings to the library, as well. After some time the death of cardinal, the library acquired about twelve manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, including the Codex Atlanticus. The library now keeps about 12,000 drawings by European artists, as from the 14th through the 19th centuries, as arousing from a wide range of patrons and artists, academicians, collectors, art dealers, and architects. The building was badly damages around in the World War II, with the loss of the archives of opera libretti of La Scala, but further restored in 1952 and further restored in 1990–97.

Hotel Pierre Milano, 5 star hotel in Milan

• Overview of the Hotel: The hotel is located at the center of Milan, about a few steps from Sant’Ambrogio Metro Station. Guest rooms at the hotel are too elegant and too are provided with Wi-Fi access. Each of the room in the hotel is provided with satellite TV with Sky channels. The Pierre Milano provides a state of the art excellent lounge bar with piano. The piano provides the Italian and Mediterranean dishes. The hotel is located close to the tram and metro connections having good connectivity across the city. From the hotel one can reach to Duomo about in fifteen minutes. The hotel has total 51 rooms.

• Amenities at the Hotel: The general facilities in the hotel include as Restaurant, bar, 24 hour Front Desk and Non Smoking Rooms.

• Hotel Rules: As for the general policies in the hotel there exist uniform policies at the common areas of the hotel. However hotel rules keeps on changing according to the different rooms. The check in time into the hotel is 12:00 – 00:00 hours and it reaches until 13:00 hours. The Cancellation and prepayment policies there vary according to the room type. Pets are allowed in the hotel on request without any extra charge.

• Hotel Room Types and Rates:

Single Room: € 119 (Per Night)
Double Room: € 160 (Per Night)
Junior Suite: € 230 (Per Night)

There are many estimations of the Milan metropolitan area and one there is according to the labour market system, where an official definition is consisted on commuting patterns used by Istat forming even of the 115 municipalities around total population of 2,975,754. Another definition that is parallel and is synonymous with the province of Milan is as according to the Eurostat Urban Audit program, where the larger urban zone of Milan has a population of about 3,076,643. Later on an organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) territorial defines the Milan metropolitan area as the Lombard provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Varese and the Piedmontese Province of Novara. The entire population under this category and definition stands out to be 7,400,000 people spread around an area of about 12,000 km². The urban area even extends to and to includes as certain Swiss territories in southern Canton Ticino. In the physical extended Milan, that even involves the whole of province of Milan and province of Monza e Brianza, 49 municipalities in province of Varese, 43 municipalities in province of Como and 45 municipalities in province of Lecco, and at all 248 municipalities. Population wise the most important of them are Monza, Busto Arsizio and Sesto San Giovanni. The entire area of the urban region is all about 2944,53 km² having a population of 4.861.502. The density of Milan urban area is about 1.651 ab/km² and is the most risen one in Europe.

Grand Hotel Et De Milan, 5 star hotel in Milan

•    Overview of the Hotel: The hotel is there located at Milan’s exclusive shopping center, Grand Hotel De Milan that is located about 440 yards away from La Scala opera house. The hotel provides the luxury rooms, a state of the art fitness center and a great service.  One can enjoy the best Italian cuisine at Don Carlos restaurant there at the hotel, whereas the Gerry’s Bar provides drink and light snack until 1 am in the morning. The hotel is one of the historic hotels of Milan and once was the home for the noted composer Giuseppe Verdi for about 27 years. It is located close to Montenapoleone Metro Station and is about 10 minutes’ walk away from Milan’s cathedral, the Duomo. The hotel has about 95 rooms.

•    Amenities at the Hotel: For facilities and services in the hotel one can have the following one as restaurant, bar, 24-hour front desk, newspapers, non-smoking rooms, rooms/facilities for disabled guests, elevator, safe, heating, baggage storage, gay friendly and air conditioning. In services at the hotel one can enjoy and avail the services as room service, meeting/banquet facilities, business center, laundry, vip room facilities, breakfast in the room, ironing service, currency exchange and fax/photocopying.

•    Hotel Rules: As far as hotel rules in the Grand Hotel Et De Milan are concerned there are uniform rules and regulations at the common areas of the hotel. However, these hotel rules do change when according to the type of room where a person stays in. The check in time into the hotel is 14:00 hours and check out time is until 12:00 hours. Cancellation and prepayment policy in the hotel also changes as according to the room where a person stays in. Pets are allowed in the hotel free of charge. Hotel accepts the credit cards as American Express, Visa, Euro/Mastercard, Diners Club, JCB, Maestro, Discover, Carte Blanche and CartaSi.

•    Hotel Room Types and Rates:

Classic Twin Room: € 500.50 (Per Night)
Deluxe Twin Room: € 588.50 (Per Night)
Classic Double Room: € 500.50 (Per Night)
Deluxe Double Room: € 588.50 (Per Night)
Junior Suite: € 709.50 (Per Night)

The Center works as a study and a research facility. It provides the exhibitions and thus organizes encounters between students and docents. Its entire working has been divided into the following section as library, media center, historical archive, and archive of prejudice and the teaching of the Holocaust. At the end of the year 2006, the CDEC has inaugurated its website providing a digital exhibition of its holdings. On the site, there are shown as about three hundred items including photographs, letters, journals, memoirs and other official documents. Each of the above mentioned department contains a very huge and massive archive of publications, papers, photographs, movies and other such materials. Each collection there is best of its type and retains uniqueness in Italy. The library collections, includes about and explore different aspect of the Jewish presence, globally. It has about 25,000 volumes and about 2,000 collections of periodicals. Italian, English and French are the primary language used in the library.

The Historical Archives has been preserved and declared as the centers of great historical importance. They are the archival documents from Jewish organizations or individuals as kept from about 1850 and are an example of about persecuted Jews and other sorts of documentation. It keeps about 180 linear meters of shelving. One of the most important databases at the museum is a database of about 8,000 Jews deported from or killed in Italy during the Shoah. The Video-Library retains about historical documents, TV broadcasts and movies of Jewish subject-matter or interest and it has about 6,000 videos. As from its collections and efforts this institution is working a lot for the cause of the Jews pride and restoring Jewish culture.