Field Trip: Milan!

We took a field trip to Milan the other day. This is the tenth grade class which I teach English to, and the History teacher. We started the day here, at the Aquarium.

This castle is 800 years old. It was in the hands of the Spanish and the French for hundreds of years. It is downtown Milan and probably takes up 10 city blocks.

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This is funny. You are supposed to step on the bull's balls and spin around for good luck.

This is the Duomo, the biggest gothic church I have ever seen.

This is Alan(Brazilian), me, Andrea(Italian), and Henan(Brazilian) on top of the Duomo.

This is something I have never seen in a church before. It is a line with the astrologically sighs on it. There is a small pin-hole in the roof of the church, and at noon the light shines on this line, and in the months of each sign, the light shines on that sign. As you can see they built this after the church and the last sign goes up the wall.

This is the crypt in the basement of the Duomo, holding the saint of Milan.