Milan is a great city of the north of full Italy of culture and initiatives but also are metropolis chaotic where different exigencies and cultures are mixed.
Milan represents, after Rome, the Italian center more populating with Italy with almost 1.302.000 inhabitants and in addition she is host of industrial, commercial and banking the activities more important of the peninsula.
Today, Milan is an important datum point in the world of the international fashion, in the one of the architecture and in the one of the design. The prestige of Milan, at cultural and artistic level, strongly is bound to the Theater the Scala, temple of world-wide lírica music, to the Piccolo Theater, related to the theater school of Strehler, and to the splendid Cenacolo de Leonardo it gives Vinci, made in 1495 who attracts a great number of tourists. It is not necessary to forget the museums art, the streets characteristic of Brera and the deprived artistic galleries.
In the Pinacoteca de Brera is an important work collection great of the old painting like for example, the “Christ morto” of Manteña, and a moderate number of modern works between which they emphasize fabrics of Boccioni, of Pisis and Sironi.
In center historical and in the neighborhood of the city, are numerous old monuments of great value like the Castello Sforzesco who was made construct by Galeazzo II Visconti next to the medieval walls of the city between 1360 and 1370.
But the most important symbol of Milan is the Duomo of gothic style lombardo with its innumerable pinnacles and their beautiful seat, that the fruit of the creative work of the unions dedicated to the construction of the monument constitutes from 1396.
Another important artistic symbol of Milan is the Basilica of Sant' Ambrogio, one of the oldest churches of the city whose construction began in year 379 and where are the rest of santo who is also the pattern of the city.
Also the Iglesa of Santa Maria is very interesting delle Grazie, gothic-renacimental monument created by artists like Solari and Bramante who have worked and modified the church at different times.

In order to finish, in the neighborhood of the city, one is the Abbey of Chiaravalle, one of the more important cistercenses monasteries of Italy, that it was founded on 1135 by San Bernardo abbot of Clairvaux, where are united the French style and the románica tradition.
An important green area near the city is the Sparing Nord, that is in the periphery to the north of Milan and counts on almost 600 hectares. This park was devised in years 60 but it was made only in 1975 in a zone highly urbanized, with few green areas. With the creation of the park these zones dominated by the cement have been adjusted and they have been gotten up to the protected territory of the park.
The first important interventos of recovery of the green areas of the park took place in 1983 and today, 20 years later, more than 150 species different from plants live in the 250 recovered hectares of earth. Today it is possible to be taken a walk and to be found linden trees, brown of Indians, hawthorns albares and hazels and to be enjoyed a nature that has extended and developed until creating true forests, generally of chopos and maples. In the park they also inhabit numerous species animals that have grown of number as the plants proliferated.
In the park owls live, mochuelos and other types of rapaces of small dimensions like the sparrowhawk. Also petirojos, tip picapinos, rates of water can be found (small typical rodents of the cultivated zones), sprocket wheels, foxes and hares.