The Brera district is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Milan. It is located in the historic centre of Milan, near Sempione Park and a kilometre from Milan’s Duomo Cathedral. It is also known as Milan’s “red light district” and Milan’s Montmartre, and is home to the State Academy of Fine Arts with the famous and largest art gallery in Milan, the Pinacoteca di Brera, and the Brera Botanical Gardens.
The part of Brera Street of the same name that runs from the main historic building of the neighbourhood, Palazzo Brera, where the academy and the Pinacoteca di Brera are located, to Via Pontaccio. The most visited and, in our opinion, interesting streets of the Brera neighbourhood are: Palazzo Brera. In the main closed courtyard you can see a bronze copy of the statue of Napoleon (entrance to the Pinacoteca is paid). And the narrow streets of Fiori Chiari and Madonnina, which are lined with cafés, restaurants and bars, souvenir shops and small shops located on the ground floors of old buildings.
In addition, the streets of the Brera district are full of interesting things, from jewelry and books to clothes and furniture. Here, street performers entertain the public, and you can also meet an unusOr maybe you want to know your destiny? Here, this is not a problem, fortune tellers in the Brera quarter do not surprise anyone anymore.ual or mysterious person, simply strolling the streets or selling their own handicrafts, often very obscure items.
Perhaps all the most eccentric personalities of Milan, from the artistic intelligentsia to those who simply crave show, gather in one place, exhibiting for everyone to see both themselves and their works (products), which, if desired, can be purchased.
At the beginning of Via Madonnina, in the small Piazza del Carmine, is the Catholic Church of Santa Miria del Carmine or Saint Mary (Chiesa Santa Maria del Carmine), dating back to 1446. It is also home to the editorial office of the main Milanese newspaper, Corriere della Sera, art galleries of contemporary artists and the Academy of Fine Arts.
