The turning point: Milan now pursues the three cities Davenport: This is the only city in the Italian international. Rome and Venice the most beautiful.
The New York Times promotes Milan, Italian only city among the 41 best places to visit in the world, according to the classification of the newspaper Stars and Stripes. The Lombard metropolis is a close fifth. Milan better than Rome, Florence and Venice, the city of art par excellence? And again: which of the three cities throw from the tower to make way for Milan? We turned the question to three members of the Milanese culture:
Philippe Daverio, art critic, television presenter and former Councillor of Culture Milan, Carlo Fontana, a former superintendent of La Scala and Andrée Ruth Shammah, a theater director and founder of the Franco Parenti. None of the three bring himself to promote Milan against Rome or Florence or Venice. Davenport, however, observes: "Milan is the only Italian city with the breath of an international metropolis. She told me many times also the director of the Royal Academy in London, Sir Norman Rosenthal. " The art critic of French origin, who lived ten years in the Big Apple, adds: "The attention of the Italian media to the place occupied by Milan in the standings of the New York Times "I confirm the provincialism that exists in our country. We depend a lot on what they say and think of us especially in the United States. "
provincialism aside, Davenport does not see great strides in Milan from a cultural perspective. Still, the exhibitions held in the city in recent years have seen a public record and the new Museum of the twentieth century has received unanimous approval. Or not? Davenport smiles: "If the journalists of The New York Times have included Milan in fifth place on 41 places to visit I do not think it depends on the opening of the Museum of the twentieth century. The capital Lombard is a popular city for business for many New Yorkers, who are here for the first time can taste the pasta to perfection, not like eating in the Big Apple. The promotion of Milan is also the result of these particulars. " So much. In the game of "what city art throw down from the tower to make way for Milan 'is even more severe the former La Scala superintendent Carlo Fontana," throw it down to Milan. I am milanesissimo, but the three cities are unmatched in the world. I'm glad this award given to my city by the New Tork Times, but Rome, Venice and Florence are not afraid of comparisons. "
The director Andrée Ruth Shammah, Meanwhile, overseas cheers for the verdict: "Milano finally at the top, and as usual the first not to notice us. How to throw down from the tower do not think anyone either. Yet still put down people, but a city ... Seriously, Venice is beautiful, Rome and Florence, too, but I say, no bring down anyone that Milan is the first and the other down all three. He says my heart of Milan. "
