Milan is a city that can embrace the boundless, one of the most dynamic and "goal-oriented" megacities in the world, the fashionable and financial center of Italy at the same time kepps its raisins and secrets. Exactly here we will see the places that still have the cheap smell of typographic paint guidebooks.

Villa Necchi-Campillo is an incredible mansion in the heart of Milan , with a tennis court and a swimming pool in a fenced-in park area. Elegance and refinement of taste almost borders here with snot and light arrogance. But behind arrogance, as we know, very often personal deep dramas and experiences are hidden.

The house-museum of Aquila Castiglioni is the man who laid the foundations of the famous Italian design, the very one that today admires the whole world. "I laugh all the time," Castiglioni said, and his students eagerly were waiting the beginning of every lesson - they never could guess what this time thevprofessor would extract from his bag, because he often picked up inspirational objects right on the streets and then could talk for a long time what exactly attracted his attention. The studio, where the great Italian lived, occupies the ground floor of a large house. On the table we can see printed letters, pencils and round glasses, on the shelves - drawings, photographs and four hundred folders with projects.

Apartment Bagatti-Valseki - light and airy, is still filled with light madness. Of course, because the former landlady could easily lay off the money put aside for a new coat for the work of a famous contemporary, and then with this same contemporary in the same apartment to drink tea ...

House of Alda Merini - La mia casa è fatta di stracci - My house is full of junk and trash.

Alda Merini - a large-scale figure. Nobody is equal to her in modern Italian poetry. Dozens of books issued, world recognition, awards and prizes, nomination for the Nobel Prize - and at the same time Merini was a lonely person and lived a long and very difficult life.

The Bagatti-Valsecchi mansion is a real highlight in the center of Milan . The Baron's two brothers did not in vain ride for thirty years around Italy , buying up objects from the Renaissance and drawing sketches of the loving interiors. As soon as the wrought-iron gate is left behind, the visitor is discarded several centuries ago. And in spite of this a real bubbling life with diapers, squabbles, quarrels with neighbors and love affair is felt in these rooms. Heirs of the barons, no-no, but come and look into the former residence.

And this is only the beginning of the list. There are also in Milan and more niche houses, stuffed with history and stories, but devoid of the tourist's attention. Moreover, there are houses inhabited, with crumpled warm sheets, lighted oil lamps, and a bubbling coffee maker on the stove waiting for vintage porcelain cups. But this is already a different story and excursion ...