Sforza Castle & the Rondanini Pietà

Castello Sforzesco · Museo Pietà Rondanini

A red-brick castle hiding Michelangelo's last sculpture

⚠ Museums closed Mon

Hours

Courtyards daily 07:00–19:30 (free); museums Tue–Sun 10:00–17:30 (last entry around 17:00), closed Mondays, 25 Dec, 1 Jan and 1 May

Tickets

Combined museums ticket €10 (new Milan civic museum fares from 10 May 2026); reductions are 50% of full price; various free categories. Buy on site or online

Address

Piazza Castello; enter under the Filarete clock tower and cross the courtyards to the museum entrances

Walk up Via Dante from the Duomo and a red-brick wall and clock tower close off the end of the street. Through the gate are big open courtyards, free for anyone to wander. A ticket gets you into the museums inside; the star is the Rondanini Pietà, displayed on its own in the old Spanish hospital wing. Michelangelo was still chipping at it days before he died, and the two rough, leaning figures look startlingly modern. Out the back gate, Parco Sempione runs all the way to the Arch of Peace.