See Lino Rossini's sculptures first hand by visiting the Duomo di Milano (Piazza del Duomo 20121, Milan).

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For a sensory overload spike, head for Piazza del Duomo to absorb the Siena Cathedral, one of Italy's finest Gothic structures.

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Decorated white oxen drag an elaborate cart stuffed full of fireworks from the Porta al Prato to the Piazza del Duomo.

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More than three years after his stint as prime minister, and two after his election defeat, he can still fill Milan's Piazza del Duomo with fans.

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The remarkable frescoes in The Collegiata, the Romanesque cathedral in the centre of town overlooking the Piazza del Duomo, give a sense of what life was like in the 13th century.

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Unless the weather is just too good to miss, head back to Piazza del Duomo for the three-in-one Museale di Santa Maria della Scala, which is, even at a jog, a two hour indoor commitment.

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There is also a fascinating blow-by-blow of how the leather is treated and cut and how the chairs are built, and a colorful accounting of a century's-worth of merchandising including, at far left, the 1968 launch of the Lullaby bed in the Piazza del Duomo, Milan as only the Italians know how.

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