Live Cams in Milan

Milan is on camera from the two places it uses to introduce itself: the Castello Sforzesco and the Duomo. The fortress was the Visconti stronghold, rebuilt by Francesco Sforza and later filled with the Rondanini Pietà, the sculpture Michelangelo was still working on days before his death; behind it opens Parco Sempione. The cathedral took nearly six centuries to finish, its spires cut from the same Candoglia marble the Duomo's own quarry has supplied since 1387, with the gilded Madonnina above them. A third view takes in the Porta Nuova skyline and the Bosco Verticale towers. Central European Time: the best light on the marble comes late in the afternoon, and in winter the fog off the Po plain blurs the high-rises into outlines.