| Powerhouse of Italy, trend-setting shopping capital, and scene of Europe's most important modern furniture fair, Milan (Milano) has much to recommend it. Milan has a wide range of important art galleries, museums, and churches, and its La Scala opera house is world famous. Highlights of Milan include an extravagantly pinnacled Duomo, the Brera Gallery (containing works by Italian artists of the 14th to 20th centuries), and the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (with works by Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Raphael). In addition, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper dominates the Dominican monastery refectory next to the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The huge 15th-century Castle of the Sforza houses a range of other museums and, elsewhere, the Contemporary Art Museum displays 20th-century art, while the Civic Gallery of Modern Art contains works by French and Italian Impressionists.
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