Milano - Archaeology Musem

January 26, 2014

This week was getting back to the normal busy schedule.  Monday morning we took Riley and Summer to the airport and were back in the office by 8:30 am.  Tuesday was new missionary training.  Wednesday morning was a special housing meeting with the President.  We have a new increase of 6 sister missionaries coming next month.  This means we need 3 mew apartments in 4 weeks.  The Burgers have found 2 of them, but they all need contracts finalized and to be furnished.

A week ago we went to an American doctor.  While walking from the Metro to Doctor's office, we saw this sign with a Bufana.

In previous posts I have shown pictures of the Bufana (Christmas Witch) that brings gifts to Italian children on Epiphany (when the wise men came to visit the Christ Child).  Here is a Bufana with some chocolate bars.  She says "Good for me, Coal for you."

Saturday we wanted to stay around Milano so we went to the Archaeological Museum.  Here is a big door I saw as we walked from the metro to the museum.

The museum was great.  It was in an old court yard of a long defunct monastery   And the monastery was built along side of two towers from an ancient Roman cCircus where they held chariot races like in Bun Hur.

 Here is a square tower - still standing.  And on the right is a 24 sided tower that they are restoring. Just amazing that this history is still standing.

 Here are some bells on top of the old monastery.

 Inside the monastery is a wonderful chapel with fantastic paintings.  Here is one of Noah and the arc.

 The church is divided into two ends.  This end is where the organ and monks sat and sang.  The nuns were not allowed to come in here.  They could only look through the window at the end of the hall.

 Nice pipe organ

 Painting of Jesus washing the apostles feet.

 We then wandered down the street towards the Duomo.  Of course I saw some more interesting doors.  I am also into knockers now.  This door knocker was about 8 feet high.  I don't think the little Italians could reach it.  I don't think anyone would want to get close to this guy.  He look very mean and angry!

 This is the Church of the portal.  Yes! The church of the doors!

We had been told by some of the missionaries of this place near the Duomo that sold Panzarotti, deep fried calzone made with bread simliar to Indian Fry bread.  We walked thru the Galleria, saw some folks eating panzarotti and asked them for directions - just around the corner.  We walked that way and the line was a block long!

The panzarotti shop had two doors each with their own long line.

 Here is a picture of a neat dog that was in line in front of us.

We only had to wait about 30 minutes.  We bought our lunch and walked towards the Duomo looking for a place to sit down and eat.

We sat on this bench next to a gal, a street performer that was playing Jazz Flute.  She was great!  It was a wonderful lunch to sit there watching people, listing to some great Jazz and eating some great Italian food.

When done I threw a few coins into her box and we walked down the street where there were several more street performers. Two of them were American Pan Flute players.  They were in full American head dress and these beads that hung down and completely covered their faces.  I don't think they were American Indians.  When we got to the next metro stop we bought a ticket and went home.