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CONQUER MILAN
DA VINCI CODE
A challenge through the streets of downtown Milan, in which you will have to pass a series of tests related to the city, but most importantly solve many challenges and puzzles related to Leonardo Da Vinci!
Which will be the winning Team?
Your goal will be to reach as many stages as possible to accumulate the most points, before the mission ends.
You will find several locations on the map:
The stages marked with a red sticker are the most important: these stages will score up to a maximum of 10 points.
At each red stage, you will find a trainer who will explain the task at hand.
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The stages marked with the yellow sticker will have a maximum score of 5 points.
IMPORTANT: When you arrive on a yellow stage, you will not find a trainer waiting for you.
In this case you will have to take a Team photo-selfie, and send it in the WhatsApp chat you will find in the tablet, also indicating the stage letter.
You will receive in real time, again via WhatsApp, the password to access the test to be passed in the yellow stage where you arrived.
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The first stage to be reached will be assigned to you at the start by the Jury.
From the second stage on, you will choose where to go, depending on your location and strategy.
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The important thing, however, will be to meet by 11:50 a.m. at El Brellin Restaurant, which you will find on the map as the green arrival point.
To get to the restaurant, you will have to take public transportation.
You can get there either by using Tram No. 2 and No. 14, or we recommend that you take the green line of the Metro/Subway starting from the Lanza Station, and then get off at the Porta Genova Station.
Right at the Lanza Subway Station, there is also the red stage marked with the letter M.
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By clicking HERE, you can find a map of the Tram in Milan.
Clicking HERE, you can find a map of the Milan subway.
GOOD LUCK!
STAGE LIST
Click on the name to go to the stage
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C) Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
STAGE LIST
Click on the name to go to the stage
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J) Biblioteca e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
STAGE A
PIAZZA MERCANTI
Piazza Mercanti is a picturesque square in Milan located very near the Duomo. During the Middle Ages, the plaza was the commercial and governmental centre of the city. It doesn’t currently have the same role, but it is still a charming Medieval area housing a number of unusual buildings.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE B
milan cathedral
Milan Cathedral, called Duomo di Milano in Italian, is a vast Gothic-style cathedral, located in the heart of Milan. It's 515 ft (157 meters) long and 302 ft (92 m) wide. It can house up to 40.000 people. Il Duomo di Milano is one of the largest Catholic churches in the world.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE C
GALLERIA
VITTORIO EMANUELE II
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which is sometimes nicknamed “il salotto di Milano” (Milan’s drawing room), is an elegant nineteenth-century shopping arcade. It houses some of the most luxurious boutiques in Milan.
Just inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, the "Leonardo3 Museum" was born: a unique exhibition that allows visitors to discover the real Leonardo da Vinci artist and inventor, thanks to never-before-seen reconstructions of his machines and restorations of his paintings in a world premiere.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE D
PIAZZA DELLA SCALA
The monument to Leonardo da Vinci is a commemorative sculptural group placed in Milan's Piazza della Scala and unveiled in 1872. At the top is a statue of Leonardo da Vinci, while at the base are four of his full-length pupils, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Marco d'Oggiono, Cesare da Sesto, and Gian Giacomo Caprotti (under the name Andrea Salaino).
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE E
PIAZZA AFFARI
Piazza degli Affari, a symbol not only of the Milanese economy but also of Italian financial activities, the square is mainly known for the presence of the headquarters of the national financial market, the Milan Stock Exchange, established here on January 16, 1808.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
STAGE F
CASTELLO SFORZESCO
Exceptional evidence of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) presence at the Sforza court, the Sala delle Asse is the most illustrious room in the Castello Sforzesco. The room received under Ludovico il Moro the famous Leonardo decoration in 1498. If some missives between the Moor and the great artist allowed the existence of Leonardo's decoration to be known, the dark centuries experienced by the castle under foreign rule seemed to have hidden the painted cycle forever.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE G
CORSO
VITTORIO EMANUELE II
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, formerly Corso dei Servi, is one of the most important streets in downtown Milan. It connects Piazza del Duomo to Piazza San Babila. It is part of a large pedestrian area (which also includes Piazza Mercanti and Via Dante). Many international brand stores open there, making it one of the city's main shopping centers.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE H
VIA FIORI CHIARI
In the Brera district, we find two opposing "flowery" streets.
According to one theory, Via dei Fiori Chiari (clear flowers) and Via dei Fiori Oscuri (dark flowers) are the perfect metaphor for their past: in fact, at one time what is now called Via del Fiori Chiari was the site of a women's college, while Via dei Fiori Oscuri was famous for housing a brothel. In short, two streets that certainly were not frequented in the same way.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
STAGE I
PINACOTECA DI BRERA
The collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera includes some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian and foreign art from the 13th to the 20th century. The works are displayed on the first floor of the building, where the Academy of Fine Arts is also located.
​Inside the Pinacoteca, you can also admire the "Seguace" (follower), a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE J
biblioteca AMBROSIANA
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana holds the famous "Leonardo Da Vinci's Atlantic Codex," and the Pinacoteca the "Portrait of a Musician," also by Leonardo, the only painting on wood by Da Vinci remaining in Milan.
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest collection of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings and writings.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE K
PIAZZA SAN FEDELE
Located within the pedestrian area in the center of Milan, it takes its name from the 16th-century church of San Fedele that overlooks it. The small square, below the rear facade of Palazzo Marino, has a monument to Alessandro Manzoni (1883) at its center, whose family home was located in nearby Piazza Belgiojoso.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
STAGE L
palazzo reale
The Royal Palace of Milan was for many centuries the seat of the government of the city of Milan, the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, and then a royal residence until 1919, when it was acquired by the state and became the site of exhibitions and displays.
Several times it has hosted galleries entirely dedicated to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE M
teatro strehler
lanza subway
Designed by Marco Zanuso and inaugurated in 1998 to the notes of Mozart's "Così fan tutte," last directed by Giorgio Strehler, it is the stage for Italian and international plays. It also hosts major dance performances, concerts and film festivals.
Near the theater, find the Lanza subway station (green line).
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RED STAGE
Find the trainer!
He will explain the test to you before moving on to the next stage.
STAGE N
piccolo teatro
The first public Stabile in Italy, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano was founded on May 14, 1947, by Giorgio Strehler, Paolo Grassi and Nina Vinchi with the desire to give life to a theater understood as a public service: a necessary institution for the benefit of the entire citizenry, with the mission of bringing on stage quality performances addressed to the widest possible audience.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
STAGE O
ARCO DI PORTA TICINESE
The meeting point for exploring the Navigli
Porta Ticinese, or Porta Cicca as the Milanese call it, is one of the 6 gates in the medieval walls of Milan. Together with the arches of Porta Nova on Via Manzoni, it is the only vestige of the 11th-century Milanese walls swept away by Barbarossa's army in 1162.
Porta Ticinese and the nearby Navigli are now the symbol par excellence of "Milano da bere": aperitifs, sociability and music.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
STAGE P
ALEXANDER LANGER BRIDGE
Built as part of the redevelopment of the Darsena, the nimble bridge that connects its banks between Gorizia and Gabriele D'Annunzio avenues as of Nov. 6, 2019 is named after Alexander Langer, a luminous figure of politician and environmentalist, as well as co-founder and leader of the Italian and European Greens, whom the dedication plaque very appropriately defines as a "builder of bridges between communities" by virtue of his work in favor of civil rights and peaceful coexistence of peoples.
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YELLOW STAGE
THE TEST TO PASS?
Send the photo of the Team, posing in front of the finishing point (see image), via WhatsApp chat to the trainer to receive the password and find out the test of this stage by clicking on the button below:
