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Montenapoleone |
The "Quadrilatero della moda", with the original Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferré, Krizia, Missoni, Valentino, Versace and Zegna outlets. Both street and district take their name from a state pawnshop ("Monte"), opened here under Napoleonic rule.
Via Monte Napoleone, with the narrow side streets branching off, claims to be Milan' most elegant street and one of the most sophisticated in all of Europe.
"Montenapo", as the Milanese call it, used to be a must not only for window-shopping but also to experience the rarefied and exclusive atmosphere of well-heeled Milan. Nowadays, jam-packed with cars and with delivery vans parked here at all hours of the day, you instead experience the total senselessness of those who don't demand that the whole street be made a pedestrian area.
In this area are two of the most important museum-homes in Italy: Museo Poldi Pezzoli, with its exceptional collections of paintings, old fabrics, antique clocks, armours, sundials and bronzetti, and Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, a fantastic mix of Renaissance masterpieces and 18th century ambience.
On May 31 2000 the Poldi Pezzoli Museum inaugurated a brilliant new armoury, designed by sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Most people reach Montenapoleone and its museums from nearby Piazza San Babila.
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