Milan Sightseeing Tour with Entrance to Scala and Duomo Cathedral
Description
Experience Milan with this self-guided tour that offers flexibility and convenience. Start your adventure by admiring the Sforza Castle, an impressive medieval fortress and one of the most remarkable urban castles in Europe. Marvel at the majestic Duomo Cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture and the largest church in Italy. With your 24-hour open-top bus ticket, enjoy a panoramic journey with the freedom to explore Milan’s vibrant streets and cultural treasures at your leisure. Take a stroll through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a dazzling 19th-century glass-vaulted shopping gallery filled with elegant shops and cafés. Conclude your experience with a visit to the legendary La Scala Theatre. Your entrance ticket grants you access to this world-famous opera house, founded in 1778.
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Itinerary
Visit the splendid Duomo, one of the world's largest, most striking Gothic cathedrals. Some 135 spires and 3,200 statues are crammed onto the roof and facade of the building.
Walk inside Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping gallery, a 19th century glass vaulted shopping arcade. Brimming with fashionable shops and cafes, it is often called the ‘salotto di Milano’ or ‘Milan’s drawing room’ for its importance over the years as a common meeting point for the people of Milan.
Enter Milan’s most famous Opera House, the fabulous La Scala theatre. Founded in 1778 and still in use, some of the world’s greatest musicians and opera singers have performed here including Pavarotti and Giuseppe Verdi, whose famous operas such as Falstaff often premiered in this very theatre.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- In the Duomo Cathedral it is strictly forbidden to bring stroller, bulky bags or umbrellas or to wear low-cut clothing. Shoulders should be covered as well.
- Visit to Duomo and La Scala not allowed in case of special events. We will give you tickets for the entrance in a different day.
- Times indicated in the program and order of the visit are subject to possibile changes due to traffic problems and/or organizational requirements to ensure full enjoyment of the tour.
Reviews(23)
La scala was good tour did not go into dumo your tour guide was rude and unprofessional was not satisfactory
It was a nice tour overall. Our guide was very knowledgeable and with a good sense of humor. I wished the group was a bit smaller so we could move from one spot to another faster and cover more information vs waiting for some ppl taking their time to take pictures, window shopping, get lost etc.
This was an excellent way to see Milan for the first time. Our guide was friendly and informative. We were on a bus for some of the tour from which we saw some places that we were visited later. We particularly enjoyed the beautiful La Scala theatre.
Got to see what I really wanted to see and it was great! Guide did a very good job of giving us interesting tidbits of history.
Did not meet my expectations! I was disappointed that the description and reviews did not deliver and lacked transparency, We did not find out that we would not be going up to see the panorama view until it was it was too late to purchase a ticket. We purchased the tour with our understanding that we would see the Duomo at both levels. With only limited time in Milan, I would have purchased a different tour.
The tour guide was very good and did a good job engaging the group throughout the tour. However, we were told when booking the tour that our ticket included going to the very top of the Duomo to experience the panoramic view. This did not happen and we were not told until the very end of the tour that our ticket did not include that experience. This was very disappointing to say the least!
The Duomo was beautiful. But we didn’t get to see Teatro alla Scala as was supposed to happen. Instead they gave us a voucher instead of refunding us for this portion of the tour.
Nice places to see, it’s great to have great guide to help you focus on certain details you would never pick out and appreciate the beauty and importance of the place/ architecture etc.
Better than expected. Started at Castella, walked toward Duomo via main shopping street. Duomo excellent. Plenty of time in the caterdral. Walked via Galleria Vittorio, then piazza della scala (statute of leonardo) to La scala. All excellent. Guide was very good, but sound on headsets not always great. There was also some confusion on the tour as some were also booked for last supper, but guide thought all on the tour were. We knew we hadn’t paid for this and had done the last supper the day before, but others were disappointed. Overall, we got what we paid for and found it really informative.
Tour guide was informative and easy to hear. Bring water if you go in the summer heat because there are no breaks or AC, even in museums. Be ready to cover your shoulders and knees if you visit Duomo. This didn’t sit right with me.
