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Stay tuned on www.wheretraveler.com Published in association with Where® magazine Preferred partner and the where® logo are registered MVP trademarks of Morris Morris Visitor Publications Visitor Publications. 2 WHERE MILAN I MARCH 2013 Milan whereThe month’s top entertainment, dining and artsnow Interactive EXHIBITION LEONARDO 3 On 1 March, “Leonardo3 – Il Mondo di Leonardo”, an interactive exhibition sponsored by AVIVA will open in the Sale del Re of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and will bring visitors closer to understanding the real workshop of Leonardo: his mind. More than 200 interactive models of Leonardo’s machinery, featuring several world premieres including his Mechanical Submarine, his Time Machine and his Flying Machine of Milan as well as a number of avant-garde interactive multi-media experiences. Thanks to state-of-the art touch screens visitors can “turn the pages” of digital reproductions of the maestro’s manuscripts, including the complete edition of the famous Codex Atlanticus, housed in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (see pages 10 and 56) as well as tapping into fully interactive 3D experiences such as Leonardo’s “Magic Cube” is one of the premieres presented at the exhibition. “Leonardo a Milano” and “Il Monumento Sforza”, dedicated to the equestrian monument project. Also well worth a visit are the digital A NE restorations of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. «This is not an exhibition but a real mini-museum which “Leonardo3-Il Mondo di Leonardo”. Until 31 July. represents “the” site that all tourists visiting Milan should not Piazza della Scala, entrance from Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. miss. The technologies and methodologies for fruition of its W M1-M3 Duomo. Open 10am-11pm, €12. www.leonardo3.net contents are unique and unveiled to the world for the first time, in perfect keeping with the spirit of Leonardo who used the CONCEPT maximum of technology available to him during those times.» VISITING THE CITY Massimiliano Lisa ›› Amongst the themed guided tours targeted at «Leonardo is one of the most famous personalities in the global rediscovering Leonardo’s Milan we recommend public mind. But where is the real Leonardo hidden? That inventor of flying machines who dreamt of freeing man into Leonardo a Milano, an agency specializing in » FOCUS the sky? You can find him right here in Milan, in the city that cultural tours and creative events that offers a visit Leonardo experienced more deeply than any other and in that to the Last Supper, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, which, today, to our immense pride, Leonardo himself would Leonardo Comes the Castello Sforzesco, the Duomo and the Navigli probably define as the exhibition of his real projects.» to Life in Milan (www.leonardoamilano.org). Edoardo Zanon ›› With its program entitled “In the footsteps of «New discoveries and never-seen-before machines leap out of Leonardo”, Zani Viaggi will accompany you on an his manuscripts and spring to life in the centre of Milan. Only At the end of the 15th MASTERPIECES OF ART AND technology here is it possible to understand just how vast Leonardo’s work afternoon excursion (4pm-7pm)