Milan is tourism

Leonardo’s Last Supper, Mantegna’s Dead Christ, the cartoon for Raphael’s The School of Athens, Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit, Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini and Piero della Francesca’s Montefeltro Altarpiece; masterpieces of Italian and international art from every century enrich the museums, churches and buildings of the Milanese metropolis.

The arts in Milan have long been favoured by numerous celebrated personages, even since the Roman period. Not long after the Emperor Constantine's Edict of Milan, in 313 AD, that allowed Christians to freely profess their religion, the bishop Ambrose promoted the construction of a belt of churches to defend the city from evil; the Viscontis commissioned the castle and the cathedral (Duomo) (thanks to petitioning by the Milanese); Ludovico il Moro  sought to imitate the patronage of Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, inviting the most famous artists of the time, such as Leonardo and Bramante, to work in Milan; the charisma and genius of Charles Borromeo signified not only the religious reorganisation of the diocese, but also the erection of new churches; his cousin Cardinal Federico, Archbishop of Milan, founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (historical library) to which he wished to add a gallery and academy of art; and finally Napoleon commissioned new monuments as well as enriched the Pinacoteca di Brera (1618) with assets seized from the religious orders (French museums, however, were greater recipients).