Word: duomo
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Cradling a basket piled high with firm, round loaves of bread, tender grapes, and delicately decaying cheeses, Roxanna sped merrily across the Piazza del Duomo. An overturned box of lettuce had delayed her morning’s errands—it had taken nearly fifteen minutes of apologies to soothe the withered old grocer—but Roxanna’s step was light. Surely the Viscount and Viscountess would not mind. Look how the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore caught the mid-morning sunshine. Look at those clouds bounding through the blue...
...Beyond legislative action, the case has generated a huge public reaction: Giuliano Ferrara, a well-known atheist newspaper editor who now regularly sides with the Vatican, called on Italians to bring bottles of water to the Duomo of Milan to protest against the possibility of cutting off nourishment - which hundreds continue to do. The full and half-full green and clear bottles of different sized bottles have turned into a makeshift altar outside the famous downtown cathedral. The Milan daily Corriere della Sera published a front-page open letter Wednesday from Adriano Celantano, Italy's legendary singer and showman. While...
...view of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the most beautiful shopping mall in the world. The 19th century Galleria was originally built to connect Piazza della Scala, home to La Scala opera house, and Piazza Duomo, with its magnificent Gothic cathedral. Under a vaulted glass roof and handpainted frescoes, the mall now has cafés, restaurants, boutiques - and only one hotel...
...regularly impressed by my peers, my professors, my House, and—in spite of what has apparently metastasized into conventional wisdom—the fun I have on weekends and weekdays alike. I may not be able to run up the Duomo and submerge myself in a foreign way of life, but there’s a lot of good here, too. I’ll decline to wax poetic about friendship and the Charles River, but I will observe that we only get four years to experience it all before it’s gone...
...MILAN Taking up three levels within eyeshot of the Duomo, Peck, tel: (39-02) 802 3161, has been a culinary lotusland for Milan's bons vivants for more than a century. The bustling space is split into a beautifully cool, 5,000-label wine cellar, a ground-floor delicatessen (replete with cured meats, cheeses, homemade pastas and an excellent range of top-shelf olive oils and vinegars), and lastly a decadent upper floor devoted to pastries, desserts and confectionery. Peck is also the location of the fashionable Cracco-Peck, a Michelin two-star restaurant run in partnership with celebrated chef...