Milan

The final stop will show how an empty plot was turned into a teaching collection despite a shortage of money and space.

The garden will add land to Leonardo's court commissions—land he would have to fight for after the exile of Sforza.

This stop connects the Roman fortifications with the monastery thanks to which the defensive tower was not dismantled.

Here begins the story of the old southern road and of structures that survived other people's plans for the city.

The harbor will link the city's route with the grand attempt to create a navigable waterway from Milan to Pavia.

The covered passage will show the personal price the architect paid to complete the main entrance on the Milan Cathedral side.

This stop will tell how one evening almost ended a composer's career, and the next commission brought him back to the stage.

The cathedral will help trace how the archbishop tried to hold together a city gripped by plague.

Here, the grand square will open up—a place once used as the headquarters of a military operation.

The square will link the modern appearance of the center with the church that disappeared to make way for the theater.

In the museum galleries, it will become clear why the old paintings survived even though the rooms themselves had to be restored.

Here you will see how one city entrance managed to receive different dedications as power changed hands.

The final stretch links today’s restaurants and markets with the work of barges, boatmen, and teamsters.

The divided church will show how a family’s rise could come to a halt at the wall of a nuns’ hall.

This stop will show how the movements of relics and sarcophagi changed an intended family burial chapel.

Here Leonardo’s free approach will meet what a monastic wall could withstand.

The final stop brings together a private commission, parish donations, and a lack of space before a single altar.

The park will show you which part of Milan its residents would not allow to be cut through with straight streets and built over.

The fortress will show how the new duke answered the city that had recently destroyed the residence of the previous dynasty.

The street will reveal the milieu in which a borrowed camera became a profession.

The laundry row preserves the canal’s everyday side and the trace of workers who succeeded one another.