Remember how in shot 1820, I said that we had not seen the 16th Century Palazzo Marino (which, incidentally, serves as the City Hall)?

Well, I was wrong about that; that's the building on the left. We simply didn't know what it was at the time (and nor did I until I was researching the location of this photo), and therefore didn't pay much attention to it.

The building in front, however, I should have recognised since is one that we been to on multiple occasions on both visits. It's the back end of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the legendary and hugely expensive shopping centre in the heart of Milano. Walk straight through there, and you will find yourself at the equally famous but less expensive Duomo, the heart of Milano. The fact that I didn't know that shows how unfamiliar I was with the city at the time.

This rear entrance also leads to the "Leonardo3 Museum - Il Mondo di Leonardo", an exhibition of digitally restored paintings and hands-on models of inventions by our good friend Leonardo da Vinci. We didn't get to see that; not that I wouldn't want to, in fact I very much want to, but the time, always the time.

This shot was taken in the Piazza della Scala, which fortunately has a street sign next to the entrance to the Galleria (although you probably won't be able to see it in the reduced sized image in my gallery), or I may never have identified where this was. Not without going back and looking for it, anyway. (Do you see a theme evolving here?)

That piazza is opposite the famous opera house the Teatro alla Scala, which obviously I knew about and yet I do not seem to have taken a single photograph of the building itself. Admittedly, the building is not particularly stunning or noticeable, but for the love of the gods it's certainly famous and I have no idea what the hell I was thinking in not at least getting some shots of it. The closest I came was shot 1828, which is shooting past the building with that out of frame on my left. I also didn't get any shots of the statue of Leonardo in the Piazza, for equally inexplicable reasons.