ationally important museums in the city, and the Egyptian Museum, the second largest in the world after Cairo. The famous Turin Shroud may be viewed in the 15th-century white marble Cathedral. Torino is a city that looks towards the future, confident of its historic legacy of material and cultural resources. In addition, an opera theatre, three auditoriums, twelve theatres, high quality concerts and live music every evening of the year makes Torino an excellent place to visit for one which loves music. Concerts of all kinds attract an educated audience, open to innovation. The city has a large number of associations that help to make the quality of musical life in Torino unique.
             Next, there is another city in Northern Italy that is captivating. Milan (Milano) is Italy's most sophisticated city, a financial and commercial center of world importance and a rival to Paris in the spheres of modern art and fashion. Its international character is marked by a concentration of skyscrapers found nowhere else in Italy, contrasting and competing with the landmarks of historic Milan, but built in the same boastful spirit of civic pride that, 500 years ago, gave the city its splendid Gothic Cathedral. Even today, this is the world's second-largest church, yet despite its size, it creates an impression of delicate and ethereal beauty due to its pale color and the fine intricate carving that covers its exterior. "Historic Milan lies at the center of a web of streets zeroing in on Piazza del Duomo, the city's main hub, and a mostly pedestrianized square that's home to the best of Milan's streetlife."
             South of Piazza del Duomo is the church of San Satiro, on the busy shopping street of Via Torino, which is a study in ingenuity, commissioned from Milan's foremost Renaissance architect. "The Museo del Duomo, on the southern side of the piazza, holds casts of a good many of the three thousand or so statues and gargoyles that spike the duomo."
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