The church was erected by Giovanni Solari in Lombard-Gothic style and it is considered one of the most greatest Renaissance creations. In 1492 the Bramante added the apse, the cloister and the sacristy.
Going out of the church in the square is collocated Leonardo’s Cenacle, which is a famous fresco that the Florentine artist painted between 1495 and 1496. Recently restored, it enchants for the grace of the colours and the expressive strength of the characters.
The access to the work is rigidly regulated and the reservation is obligatory, phoning to the number 02-89421146.

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Milan is the centre of the national economy and the fair represents its power.
In April 1920 to relaunch the national market after the 1st world war, the fair that at the beginning was near Porta Venezia, moved in 1923 to the area of the ancient Piazza d’Armi, behind the Sforza Castle, where it is still today.
With the first edition of the Campionaria, the Milan City Fair became during the years the centre of an international interchange and point of fundamental reference for firms which are going to internationalise their products.
Beginning from the years 70 it has gradually abandoned the strategy of the great fair Campionaria to aim at specialized sections in 1985.
The Milan Fair is become the symbol of the productive vocation of the city and with its 26 pavilions and a surface 375000 square metre it is one of the most greatest expositive complex in Europe for importance and business.
The calendar is rich of shows, various and covers all the market sectors.

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In two years - a real record considering the vastness and complexity of the building and thanks to an investment of 750 million euros, the innovative project, signed by the architect Massimiliano Fuksas, is become an exhibition complex of avant-garde, that puts together record dimensions and exceptional flexibility of use, advanced technological endowments and comfort for the visitors, total use of the spaces and aesthetical forms. With this work Milan Rho Fair establishes the new qualitative, functional, technical and aesthetical world standards of the compartment. And it conquers the leadership of the narrow group of the most greatest international fair operators.

The first pavilions of the new complex - that assumes the name Milan Fair – started at the end of march. The rest of the district has entered upon office in the autumn 2005. This expo-pole entertains the greatest part of Milan exhibitions, and particularly those technical of greatest dimensions and very complex logistics. Other exhibitions, as those living in symbiosis with the city as the show of fashion, will maintain the traditional place. The historical expo-district will not dismantle totally, but it will remain the most modern and functional part of it, called “Milan City Fair”.
Milan Fair has got not only the greatest and advanced fair system all around the world (345000 covered squared meters and 60000 at open-air, 115000 the Milan Fair City), but also a potential place articulated on two great connected districts; one to the other by the subway which is able to make forehead in optimal way to the different demands of the fair events and the represented economic sectors.

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The most spectacular element of the rich decoration of the arch (high 25 m.) is the Sestigia of the Peace, a bronze of the sculptor Abbondio Sangiorgio.
It rises in the wide Sempione Square and was realized in 1807 by the architect Luigi Cagnola to celebrate the Napoleonic victories. But the artist had to stop the work owing to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
In the 1826 Francis I of Austria ordered to complete the monument and to devote it to the peace to remember the European peace of 1815.
At Cagnola's death in 1833 the architects Francesco Peverelli and Francesco Londonio finished the monument. The same emperor Ferdinando I of Austria wanted to inaugurate it on 10th September 1838.

The Sempione Park has been realized on a project of Emilio Alemagna and it rose between 1890 and 1893 on the ancient Piazza d’Armi among the Sforza Castle and Sempione Square.
A source of sulphurous water has its clients. There is a town library.
In the area of the park there is the Napoleonic Arena, the Aquarius, the Branca Tower, planned by Cesare Chiodi and Giò Ponti, the Theatre of the Art (Triennial), a little pond and a romantic bridge on a rivulet with the bronze sirens of the ancient bridge on the river Naviglio of St. Damiano Street and a fountain of George De Chirico.
In the park it is situated the Steel Pipes Tower (high 108 m.) planned by the architect Giò Ponti, the elevator brings to a vast terrace with sight on the city.

Imposing neoclassic construction was erect in 1806 from Luigi Gagnola on models of the ancient Roman amphitheatres with slopes and staircases.
The amphitheater has an elliptic form (238 m. x 226 m.) and can contain up to 30000 spectators.
Inaugurated at the presence of Napoleon, it had in the time horse-races, ascensions in hot-air balloon, commemorative parties, in the period of the Cisalpine Republic and Kingdom of Italy. For the naumachias were flooded the inside spaces with water of the Naviglio river.
Today it entertains competitions of light athletics, popular demonstrations, nighttimes shows and live concerts .

Built in liberty style, it presents to the public 38 fish-ponds populated by different kinds of fresh-water and salt-water fish.
Reserved to the researchers are the laboratories and the rich collections of human biology. A library and newspaper one are annexed. They are specialized in different water studies.