Great monuments of illustrious figures or plastic forms of mysterious elegance dominate the squares and the wide open spaces of all Milan. This tour will show you a different perspective of the city: silent presences that, marking the symbolic places of the city, today few look, if not to give themselves an appointment or to turn a distracted look while waiting for the green of the traffic lights. These are the monuments of Milan. But they are also much more. Fragments of history that help us to keep alive the memory of an event, of a name imprinted in our culture to which they finally give a face. Thus, Vittorio Emanuele of Piazza Duomo, Parini del Cordusio, Manzoni and Leonardo Leonardo were conceived around the Scala. Witnesses of Milan in the late nineteenth century, when they were used to tell the dream of the greatness of the city. With the twentieth century, the meanings have changed, as the idea of the square as a public place has changed and politicians, intellectuals or proud heroes of the Risorgimento have added monuments that are less and less easy to understand, often obscure references to the complexity of our time. An example is the obscure Mère Ubu in front of the Palazzo del Senato, the monument to the Minguzzi Carabinieri weapon in Piazza Diaz, the Pomodoro Sun in Piazza Meda or the "invisible" sculptures of Consagra in via Mercanti, up to get to the much-discussed Middle Finger of Cattelan in Piazza Affari, a clear sign of a declared provocation to the status quo. milano Piazza Duomo Piazza Diaz Palazzo del Senato