After being brave enough to wander around the rooftop of the Duomo I spent some time on the Piazza waiting for the blue hour… it was time to say good bye to Milan on the next day I travelled south to Bari.
Author: Ursula Schmitz
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Duomo at night
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Glas & Stone
After wandering around Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II I decided to be brave, ignore my fear of hights and take a walk on the roof the Duomo di Milano …
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II built from 1865 and 1877 is one of the oldest shopping malls of the world. Designed by Giuseppe Mengoni who died the tragic way of falling from the roof of the one galleria he had built.
The Galleria conntects the Duoma and the Teatro Alla Scala and not only serves as a shopping area but also as a common Milanese meeting and dining place.
Who had thought that it would be possible to walk on the roof of Italys second biggest church – the gothic Duomo di Milano, built during a couple of centuries. And what a view! The roofs of Milan and all the (little) details of the Duomo. I almost expected all the creatures (the gargoyles) to come alive like in a movie!
Galleria Vittoorio Emanuele II on the right 
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Shrines over shrines
There were quite a lot of things about Naples that had me spellbound: all the fireworks every evening around the bay, children driving scooters, the amount of fried food and something that might be typical for the Quartieri Spagnoli, at least I didn´t see them in that amount somewhere else: shrines!
They are everywhere! Small, big, old, new, kitschy, nice, full of pictures and so on – there must be hundreds of them in the spanish quarters…
