Pinacoteca di Brera
MuseumMilanAbout 2 hours
Milan's major painting collection — Mantegna's foreshortened Dead Christ, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio — in an academy building in the most attractive quarter of the city. Consistently uncrowded for what it holds. Two hours, then the Brera streets around it.
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