Milan, Palazzo Marino opens every first Sunday of the month with free guided tours

Starting March 1, Palazzo Marino will open its doors every first Sunday of the month, offering guided tours to the public thanks to a partnership with Fondazione Bracco. The historic seat of Milan City Hall, usually accessible Monday through Friday and on Republic Day, thus enters the Sunday at the Museum circuit, the Ministry of Culture initiative that allows free admission to citizens and tourists to state and civic museums and cultural sites.

Visits will be available by reservation and conducted by professional guides trained by Civita Exhibitions and Museums, a company specializing in the enhancement of Italy’s cultural heritage. The tour will last about an hour and a quarter and will allow visitors to explore the most important rooms of the 16th-century palace designed by architect Galeazzo Alessi, which has been the seat of the municipal administration since September 19, 1861. The tour will allow visitors to discover spaces, courtyards and reception rooms not usually open to the public, with a focus on the relationship between architectural design, artistic decoration and the building’s civic function. The tour will offer a historical reading of the palace, which began as the private residence of wealthy merchant Tommaso Marino and over time became a symbol of Milanese public and political life.

Places open during the tours include the Cortile and the Loggiato d’Onore, as well as historic rooms such as the Sala Alessi, the main Hall of the City Council, the fulcrum of the city’s institutional life, and the Sala Marra, in the oldest part of the building, known to be linked to the birth of Marianna de Leyva, the so-called Monaca di Monza mentioned in Alessandro Manzoni’s Promessi Sposi. The project allows visitors to take a closer look not only at the architecture and decorations but also at the signs of the city’s history that the palace has guarded for centuries.

“Palazzo Marino is not only the home of the Mayor and of all the Milanese and Milanese people,” said Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, “but it is a palace rich in art and history, where the life of the city is told through the protagonists who have inhabited it since the beginning. A place that lived through difficult moments of the war and was able to be reborn after the bombings of 1944 as a testimony to the rebirth of an entire city. Thanks to the Bracco Foundation, the opportunity to visit it will be open to a wider public that during the week cannot participate in the tours already available. A gift made to the many people who will take the opportunity to learn more about this place during the already beautiful Sundays at the Museum in which we have been participating for years with our civic museums.”

“We are happy to support the City of Milan and contribute to the ’Sundays at the Museum’ initiative, which will now also be able to include Palazzo Marino among the Milanese wonders open to the public,” said Diana Bracco, president of Bracco Foundation. “We deeply believe in the value of culture and the promotion of our country’s artistic heritage. Beauty generates well-being and knowledge and for this reason it is essential to support projects that encourage participation and accessibility in a fruitful union between public and private. Our Foundation thus confirms its vision: knowledge as an engine of development, innovation and collective growth, capable of strengthening the link between citizens, institutions and urban identity.”

To participate, reservations are required through the dedicated link(https://palazzomarinomilano.madeticket.it/it/shop/biglietti) and the presentation of a valid ID, to be shown when entering the building. The tour will last about 75 minutes, with departures every 30 minutes from 2:30 to 4:30 pm.

Milan, Palazzo Marino opens every first Sunday of the month with free guided tours

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