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Beautiful flowers 🌸🌷🌺🌼

Sunday morning ☕️

Thank you True Food Kitchen for opening at 10 am

Our favorite place when visiting the area
Palette Tea Garden & Dim Sum 彩苑

The special Starbucks Reserve in Milan is calling all coffee lovers!

The Startbucks Reserve Roastery Milano is located at the historic Palazzo Delle Poste building, the one-of-a-kind 25,500-square-foot retail space features our premium, small-batch Reserve coffees served in a variety of brewing methods in a beautiful environment. It integrates the world-famous theater of coffee in Italy and offers freshly baked food on site from Italian artisan baker Rocco Princi, the exclusive food provider for all global Roastery locations.

Buon appetito!

We loved our stay at the Grand Hotel Milan, and its delicious meals!

The Grand Hotel et de Milan is a luxury hotel located in the centre of Milan. The construction was commissioned to architect Andrea Pizzala (1798–1862)[2] and was inspired by the neo-Gothic movement. Inaugurated in 1863, it offered services fitting of a grand hotel of the capital of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

We loved our daily walk through the Duomo di Milano and The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II! I am so glad we were able to spend a lot time learning about Leonardo Da Vinci on this trip.

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is Italy's oldest active shopping arcade and a major landmark of Milan. Housed within a four-story double arcade in the centre of town, the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy.

We enjoyed exploring the Vertical Forest, Bosco Verticale.
The Bosco Verticale is a complex of two residential skyscrapers designed by Boeri Studio and located in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy. They have a height of 116 metres and 84 m and within the complex is an 11-storey office building.

From Boeri Studio website:
"The Vertical Forest increases biodiversity. It promotes the formation of an urban ecosystem where various plant types create a separate vertical environment, but which works within the existing network, able to be inhabited by birds and insects (with an initial estimate of 1,600 specimens of birds and butterflies). In this way, it constitutes a spontaneous factor for repopulating the city’s flora and fauna.

The Vertical Forest helps to build a microclimate and to filter fine particles contained in the urban environment. The diversity of plants helps to develop the microclimate which produces humidity, absorbs CO2 and particles, produces oxygen, and protects against radiation and noise pollution.

The Vertical Forest is an ever-evolving landmark of the city, whose colours change depending on the season and the different natures of the plants used. This offers Milan’s population an ever-changing view of the city."