Step Into History
Walk Milan in 1490
AI rebuilds Milan (Milano) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Ludovico's Milan, 1490
Milan in 1490 is the Duchy of Sforza at the height of a commercial and building boom: the Castello's brick bulk dominates the west and the new white mass of the Duomo rises across the centre, scaffolded and unfinished. Canals and cobbled streets carry stone, silk and people; artists and engineers move among courts and workshops while commissions and civic power reshape the fabric of the city.
33 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Milan as it stood in 1490 (“Duchy of Milan”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Navigli Approach
- ↳ Lock-Keeper's House · interior
- 2. Porta Ticinese
- 3. Ripa di Porta Ticinese
- ↳ Marble Warehouse · interior
- 4. Santa Maria delle Grazie
- ↳ Convent Refectory · interior
- 5. Castello Sforzesco
- ↳ Sala delle Asse · interior
- ↳ Armourers' Forge · interior
- 6. Torre del Filarete
- 7. Spianata del Castello
- 8. Brera Quarter
- ↳ Silk-Weavers' Workshop · interior
- 9. Sant'Ambrogio
- ↳ Ambrosian Chapter House · interior
- 10. San Lorenzo Maggiore
- ↳ Romanesque Basilica Nave · interior
- 11. Colonne di San Lorenzo
- 12. Piazza dei Mercanti
- 13. Il Broletto
- ↳ Podestà's Council Chamber · interior
- 14. Loggia degli Osii
- ↳ Notaries' Chamber · interior
- 15. Piazza Cordusio
- 16. Via Mercanti
- 17. Piazza del Duomo
- 18. Duomo Works
- ↳ Master Masons' Gallery · interior
- ↳ Carpenters' Roof Loft · interior
- 19. Piazza San Sepolcro
- 20. Porta Romana
- 21. Ramparts and Outward View