Near the Ippodromo (racecourse) you can admire the gigantic “Leonardo’s Horse”, which was built using Leonardo’s sketches. During his stay in Milan, Leonardo planned an enormous bronze statue of Francesco Sforza, Milan’s ruler in those years, riding a horse. He created a model of the horse, but the war came and he had to abandon the project.

During the Seventies Charles Dent, a former US air pilot, made a foundation to build the horse using Leonardo’s sketches. He too could not see the horse completed, because he died in 1994. Only five years later, in 1999, the majestic horse was terminated and donated to the city of Milan. The horse is the distinctive sign of the Ippodromo of Milan.

To find more: www.leonardoshorse.org