Turns out jet lag is real. We slept from about 9 pm to 11 am and were forced to have pizza for brunch.
Sufficiently fueled up, we headed to the Duomo di Milano – the third largest church in the world and the largest Gothic Cathedral. It is 150 meters long and 105 meters high, and has more than 3,000 statues and 115 spires. It only took a mere 600 years to complete.
Then it was off to Santa Maria delle Grazie – a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the home to a little painting you might have heard of: The Last Supper. We only had 15 minutes in the room, but could have spent hours to be honest. You can’t take your eyes off da Vinci’s masterpiece. Amazingly, it came within a few feet of being destroyed by a WWII bomb. On the opposite wall was Crucifixion, painted by Giovanni Donato da Montorfano.
We capped off our first full day in Italy with a wonderful dinner at Risoelatte Duomo.
More tomorrow!
On the Road with the Ashbys 