The northern Italian capital - cold and rainy Milan - can hardly compare in popularity with the symbolic cities of Italy, you know which ones. What do we know about him? La Scala, shopping, Duomo - perhaps that's all. But fate brought the author, then still a carefree student, precisely here, to one of the ancient universities of the city. For what? Definitely not for studying, he decided after the first day of school and set off on his journey around the city and surrounding area, which lasted for a little over two years. Why so close? Because I still had to drop by for lectures. As a man with imagination, he decided that there must be something worthwhile hidden behind the shabby clichés. And it turned out to be right! The old city not only unfolded before him its unique, seething life, unknown to tourists, but also lifted the veil of the past. Now you will find out where in Milan to have coffee with Magomayev and dinner with Suvorov, how to get to the count-director’s birthday party, conquer the Italian Everest and find the last alpine aborigines.