Corso Vittorio Emanuele II

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is one of the liveliest shopping streets in the city; its spacious porticoed pavements (constructed after 1953) in a wholly pedestrianised area means it has become the favourite city stroll for citizens and tourists alike. The Corso, which follows a Roman thoroughfare, connects Piazza Duomo with Piazza San Babila and was a much loved subject for Milanese artists in the nineteenth century. Walking from San Babila towards the Duomo the road widens out to the right where the church of S.Carlo al Corso lies, a neoclassical structure completed in 1847. Further ahead under the porticoes a Roman statue with a toga called "Omm de preja" (man of stone) can be found; he is also known by his nickname" Mr Carera"(a mispronunciation of the first word of the Latin epigraph beneath the statue "Carere debet omni vitio qui / in alterum dicere paratum est...") below which political satires and mottos were posted.