Word: sforzesco
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...deep-fried sole with tempura vegetables in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, or have oysters and champagne as a pre-theater snack. Afterward, a ballet at La Scala, tel: (39-02) 7200 3744, is a magical experience. Then I'd walk around Piazza Castello beneath the medieval fortress, Castello Sforzesco. With the fountain sparkling under the illuminated ramparts, it's the perfect end to the evening. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...14th century duomo, its pinnacles and spires topped by saints and angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where...
...week the Pietà was moved to Rome's Borghese Gallery for a month's exhibit before being handed over to its new owners: Milan's city fathers, who plan to show their prized Pietà in a special room of the city's Castello Sforzesco museum. The bargain price: 135 million lira (about $216,000). The Italian government had discouraged private buyers by ruling that the Pietà could not leave the country, and by reminding that any sale to new private owners inside Italy would fee subject...
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