Renaissance Milan Private Walking Tour

Your Private Renaissance Milan Tour Itinerary

Step back into the splendour of Renaissance Milan, when the city became a flourishing centre of artistic innovation, architectural experimentation and humanist culture under the patronage of the Sforza family.

During this three-hour private walking tour, we will explore extraordinary churches, historic courtyards and architectural masterpieces that reveal the creativity and ambition of Renaissance Milan.

Highlights of your experience include:

• Ca’ Granda – The Renaissance Hospital: Discover the magnificent 15th-century hospital commissioned by Duke Francesco Sforza and designed by Antonio Averlino, known as Filarete. Admire its elegant courtyards, harmonious proportions and distinctive red-brick architecture, an extraordinary example of Renaissance civic ambition.

• Santa Maria presso San Satiro: Step inside this remarkable church and discover Donato Bramante’s celebrated illusionistic choir, an ingenious masterpiece of Renaissance perspective that transforms a very shallow space into the appearance of a monumental apse.

• San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore: Admire one of Milan’s most breathtaking Renaissance interiors, decorated with an extraordinary cycle of 16th-century frescoes by Bernardino Luini and other Lombard painters, reflecting the influence of Leonardo da Vinci.

Depending on opening hours and your interests, the itinerary may include alternative sites, such as the fascinating Church of San Bernardino alle Ossa.

Throughout the visit, we will explore the lives of artists, the ambitions of Renaissance patrons and the revolutionary ideas that shaped Milan’s artistic identity.