Milan: Multitudes, Museums, & Models
Hello again, Blogonauts! For two weeks we have ricocheted across northern Italy together. We have shared artistry & architecture, history & histrionics, foodery & tomfoolery. Yet, even as the customs of Venetto and Lombardy began to feel familiar and perhaps semi-comprehensible, they did little to prepare me for Milan. Imagine crowds akin to spring break at Disney World or New Year's Eve on Times Square. And then give to a significant percentage of that throng the fashion daring-do usually found only at places like the Oscars or the Met Gala. Now if you set your dial for such an event at 10, then Milan, on a spring Saturday or Sunday, warrants perhaps an 8 or 9...but no lower. We'll start, as everyone does, with the Piazza del Duomo . At least two reasons draw the droves to the expansive plaza outside the cathedral's front door: The first is the ornate gothic exterior of the Duomo itself. It is a psychedelic structure of statuary and stone like no other. It...