Via Brera

The name is derived from "braida" (Milan slang): wasteland, kitchen garden. The artists that since the nineteenth century gravitated to the Academy of Fine Arts have transformed the neighborhood into one of the most characteristic of Milan, both for the presence of the building of the Pinacoteca di Brera and some historical and typical locals that overlook this road .

Museum of international standing, the Pinacoteca di Brera  with its 38 exhibition halls and its 2,500 works exposes one of the most famous and extensive collections of paintings in Italy and Europe, specialized in Veneto and Lombardy schools, with important and famous pieces also of  other schools. Moreover, thanks to donations, it proposes an exhibition that ranges from prehistoric to contemporary art, with masterpieces by of the twentieth century.