Mom and I actually went to the Duomo twice: once at night with some other women from the tour and again in the morning with the entire group. At night, we also went to the shopping neighborhood and window-shopped a bit. The streets were narrow and decorated for Christmas. Because Milan is such the fashion capital of Italy, we walked by places like Roberto Cavalli’s press office, which was cool to see. We could peek inside and actually see the clothing hanging on racks.
While the women we were with were much more interested in clothing. This was one of mom and my favorite windows. This Santa Claus is a cake!
The next morning, we returned to the Duomo and then went to the first mall in Italy which is open to the air, but covered by a glass domed ceiling. As we passed through we saw mosaics on the ceiling representing the continents and other ones on the floor representing Milan and Italy. Our last stop in Milan was the Teatro alla Scala, the opera house. We got to go into some boxes and see what it would look like if we were there watching a show. We also visited the museum in the opera house, which contained paintings of famous opera singers and program booklets from shows which opened at the theater.
In Milan, mom and I had one of our best meals in Italy: green gnocchi. Huge green (from spinach) potato dumplings with tomato sauce, capers and olives were delivered to our table on a large parmesan cracker. We also had a salad and some local wine.
Throughout Milan I noticed signs with speech-bubbles that said "peace" in different languages. They were stuck to billboards and advertisements. The first one I noticed was in Hebrew. It was like a public art project or mass-tagging effort. Actually you can go to this website (which was on the sticker). It's for a project on advertising causes like human rights and water scarcity. http://good50x70.org/2008/
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