These two streets go around the Cathedral square and connect it to the Castle, so it is very likely for any tourist to walk along them. They are famous shopping streets as well and they offer a big variety of options for clothing, brands, lingerie, accessories and footwear. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is a pedestrian avenue with colonnades on the sides and shops below: its architecture and its location right in the city centre make it one of Milan’s most famous and elegant avenues. At the end of it, you can find Rinascente, the biggest and most established department store in Italy, which has been opened right in Milan in 1865 as a clothing shop with the aim of addressing a wide audience, both among high and middle to low class women.
