Arco della Pace

Arco della Pace is so beautiful in person! We walked from Castello Sforzesco and through Parco Sempione to get up close and it was totally worth it. The two buildings next to it were under construction but hopefully we can come back and see it again!

So this is my 5^th Arc — Napoleon sure liked to leave these around on his EU travels! I have seen the ones in India, France, Belgium, Germany and now Italy (Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Brandeburg gate in Berlin, the Arc in Parc du Cinquantenaire or Jubelpark in Brussels, the Wellington Arch in London, and India Gate in Delhi
The marble is similar to that of the duomo and I really really loved the sculpture of the horses on top. However getting here was a challenge as I walked what seemed to be endless paths thru the gardens — there wasn’t a straight route, with the result that I often ended up in random nooks.
One path I took had young immigrant men crowding the route and I got a lot of cat calls # No Fun :(It’s a wide open space here for this arch, and might actually be one of the few that is located in a park and not part of city traffic patterns. I enjoyed checking it out, and can see why it’s a fave place of the locals to hang out.