Greetings!
It's probably appropriate to use a photo of Leonardo DaVinci's Last Supper to illustrate today's travels since the painting was the focus of our journey. DaVinci spent four years creating the painting in the dining hall of the convent at the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Viewing it for 15 minutes with a group instructor at mid-day, our tour company had obtained tickets that no one believed possible for all of their 2024 travel year. We now know all of the guests, their motivations, hand gestures, and color schemes.
A trip to Milan would not be complete without a visit to the largest church in Italy (remember that Saint Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican is not in Italy, but in the Vatican State). Officially the
Metropolitan Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is the third largest in surface area, and sixth in volume. Milan is the capital of Lombardy, and Italy's second largest city, an important trading center for over two millennia, and once served as the capital of the western half of the Roman Empire.
Ending our visit, we walked through the Galleria Vitttorio Emanuele II which connects the Teatro La Scala and the Duomo di Milano. Every major fashion company has shops here, and the management is proud to have ejected McDonald's recently. The fadt food chain got the last laugh, however, as it set up shop a few hundred feet from the entrance, and the smell of its french fries continues to carry through the structure.
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