Milan alternative history and curiosities

Slow run or walk with a lot of stops! You'll have to find further details yourselves.
• PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA: shrapnel damage on one of the thicker tram wire poles
• PIAZZA OBERDAN: vents from old underground baths disguised as columns
• VIA MALPIGHI 3, 12: wonderful wrought iron work by Alessandro Mazzucotelli
• VIA POERIO 35: ‘House of the Rabbi’ - one of 12 copies in the world (only one in Europe) of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
• VIA MENOTTI-GIARDINI DI CORSO INDIPENDENZA: Pinocchio into boy sculpture; nice inscription by poet Antonio Negri
• CORSO MONFORTE 43: Liberty cat in basement window
• PIAZZA SAN BABILA: lion outside church on top of the column, once part of the old Porta Orientale
• CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE 13: ‘Sciur Carrera’; look him up!
• VIA AGNELLO 19: little lamb above door, sign of one of the old ‘contrada’ (old city once divided into six ‘sestriere’, each with five ‘contrada’.
• PIAZZA SAN FEDELE: writer Alessandro Manzoni fell and banged his head on the church steps 6th January 1873; never recovered, died 22nd May.
• VIA DEGLI OMENONI 3: 'street of the big men'; house with old Austrian numbering (1722, not a date) above the door
• VIA SPADARI 3: more by Mazzucotelli
• VIA LUPETTA-VIA TORINO: high up on corner of building, another relic of an old ‘contrada’ - the wolf cub
• VIA BAGNERA: city’s narrowest street and mid-19th-century crime scene of serial killer Antonio Boggia
• VIA GIULINI 1: Milan’s shortest church
• VIA MERAVIGLI 2: Medieval bell tower, all that’s left of San Nazaro in Pietrasanta church
• PARCO SEMPIONE: 'Ponte delle Sirenette' - Italy’s first iron bridge, originally over now filled-in city canal, moved to park in 1930
• CORSO SEMPIONE-VIA MOSCATI: single buffer of old Milan-Gallarate tram line (locomotive in the Science Museum (worth a visit)