Milan is full of Stile Liberty (Art Nouveau) architecture, a style I'm totally in love with. So I started to spend a lot of time riding my bike and being amazed how many beautiful buildings you came across in the centre. And that was how I started to change my mind.įirst of all, I could say goodbye to my car and buy a bicycle after all, the distances permit it and the city is completely flat. Eventually travelling got a little too expensive for my budget and I was forced to spend more time in Milan. Initially I found it very boring here and travelled frantically across Italy, spending my free time aboard trains. Milan seemed to fit the stereotype I had always heard about: grey and cold, it was a place made for offices where you do nothing else but work during the week and wait for Friday to spend the weekend somewhere else. So when I had a chance to move to Milan to start a new exciting job at one of the most famous Italian publishing houses, I was happy but disappointed at the same time. I was born in Milan but raised in Rome, a city you can hardly compare to any other Italian city (and few cities abroad) for its beauty. She writes a music-related blog of her own on, Marpo (from her nickname Marò). Mariarosa Porcelli works as a book editor in Rizzoli Publishing and web editor and blogger for the Milan Chamber of Commerce.
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