Modern Art Gallery

This guide to the Modern Art Gallery in Milan opens on the night of July 27, 1993, when a car bomb tore apart the street outside the pavilion, part of a coordinated Mafia campaign that also struck Rome. You'll hear who was lost that night and how a ruptured gas main compounded the damage. The guide then reaches back to the villa's earlier life in the 1790s, built for Count Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso before Napoleon Bonaparte made it his Milan residence. Listen for the story of the ballroom where he is said to have danced with Josephine.