Places to visit in Lombardy, Italy
12 places to visit in Lombardy, Italy, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Bosco Verticale, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Lombardy volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage site · 9 Famous places to visit · 2 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lombardy (1)
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Santa Maria delle Grazie
A Dominican church and convent whose refectory wall carries Leonardo da Vinci's mural of The Last Supper. Painted in the 1490s on a dry wall rather than wet plaster, it has been restored many times, and the church and painting together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Famous places to visit in Lombardy (9)
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Bosco Verticale
Two residential towers in the Porta Nuova district, 116 and 84 metres tall, designed by Boeri Studio. Their balconies are planted with trees and shrubs, so the buildings look like a small forest standing on end above the city.
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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Italy's oldest active shopping arcade, a four-storey double gallery under a roof of glass and iron, built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877. It links the cathedral square to the square in front of La Scala and is named after the first king of united Italy.
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La Scala
One of the world's great opera houses, opened on 3 August 1778 with Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta. It began life as the New Royal Ducal Theatre, and its season still opens each year on 7 December, the feast of Milan's patron saint, Ambrose.
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Lake Como
A Y-shaped glacial lake in the foothills of the Alps, carved into three long arms by the ancient Adda glacier. It is the third-largest lake in Italy and more than 400 metres deep, with villas and villages along its steep green shores.
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Lake Garda
The largest lake in Italy, cutting into the edge of the Alps between Brescia and Verona. Glaciers shaped it at the end of the last ice age, and its shores, shared by Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino, are lined with olive groves, old harbours and lemon houses.
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Milan Cathedral
The great Gothic cathedral of Milan, dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and seat of the city's archbishop. Its marble roof bristles with spires and statues, and you can walk out among them high above the piazza.
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Pinacoteca di Brera
Milan's main public picture gallery, holding Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century in the Palazzo Brera, which it shares with the Brera Academy. Among its best known works are Mantegna's Lamentation over the Dead Christ and Hayez's The Kiss.
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Sforza Castle
A brick fortress raised in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remains of an older stronghold. Rebuilt by Luca Beltrami around 1900, it now holds several of the city's museums, including Michelangelo's last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà.
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Villa del Balbianello
A villa on the tip of the small wooded Dosso d'Avedo peninsula, on the western shore of Lake Como. It is best known for its terraced gardens dropping to the water, and has been a film location, including for Casino Royale and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Hidden gems in Lombardy (2)
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Grottoes of Catullus
The ruins of a large Roman villa at the very tip of the Sirmione peninsula on Lake Garda, built around the turn of the 1st century BC and AD. The name ties it to the poet Catullus, who wrote of Sirmione, though the villa was never shown to be his.
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Villa Carlotta
A lakeside villa completed in 1745 by an architect whose name is not known. It is now a museum with sculpture by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen and paintings by Francesco Hayez, set in a botanical garden along the shore of Lake Como.
Collecting in Lombardy
What are the best places to visit in Lombardy?
LOQAH lists 12 places in Lombardy. The best known include Santa Maria delle Grazie, Bosco Verticale, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, La Scala and Lake Como. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Lombardy?
12, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Lombardy?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Lombardy before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Lombardy and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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