Piazza del Duomo

In the Piazza del Duomo, the cathedral square, you' llfind a classic European scene. Professionals scurry, label- couscious kits laiter, pickpockets eye the crowd. Head across the square to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a four- story glass- damed arcade, for shopping or a snack and some people- watching. There' s a mosaic zodiac on the floor watch the locals as they walk aver it. The young girls add a twirl for even better fortune! At the centre of a web of streets there is the Duomo of Mila, the world' s large Gothic cathedral, begun in 1386 and taking nearly five centuries to complete.

On the apposite side of the piazza is the opulent Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, a cruciform glass- damed gallery designed in 1865 by Giuseppe Mengoni, who was killed when he fell from the roof a few days before the manguval ceremony.