Milan & Milano Centrale

The drive to Milan from the resort was about 3 hours on the motorway.  The rental car drop-off was downtown very near to the Milano Centrale train station and our hotel.  Milan is quite a busy city and many of the streets are narrow and crowded.  It was a little challenging at times, but we managed fine and were able to drop off our luggage at the hotel first before turning in the car.

The Milano Centrale train station is a magnificent building with wonderful architecture inside and out.  I could not take enough photos of it.  Below are some inside photos that show the soaring ceiling and the expansive entry on one side.  It was also interesting that there was a wine shop in one entry where you could buy wine, chilled and room temperature, to take with you on the train.  In Italy it is perfectly acceptable to take your own food and wine on the train, and many do.  The photo clips below are a bit compressed so I encourage you to view the photos in the album with this post.

The outside of the building is equally impressive but difficult to capture it all in one photo.  The building is massive!  So I focused on capturing interesting shots of the water flowing out of one of the lion's heads. In the right hand shot below is our hotel in th background, which offered another surprise.

When we went to breakfast the next morning we were pleasantly surprised to find the breakfast setup on the top floor of the hotel with a spectacular view of the train station. I took and kept too many photos, all in the album with this post, but it was spectacular in the morning light.

We enjoyed our last dinner in Italy that evening and celebrated with our final gelato as well.  The week had been fun and we enjoyed every day, but it was time for the next phase of our trip and our adventure with trains.