HOPE 2023
Optional cultural Program
Activities managed by the HOPE23 Congress committee
Italian cooking class
Italian cooking class and school visit with students and teachers of the Istituto Statale Professionale Servizi per l’Enogastronomia e l’Ospitalità Alberghiera (IPSEOA) ‘Carlo Porta’.
Date and time:
May 8, 9.30-12.30 [Max 20 people]
May 9, 9.30-12.30 [Max 20 people]
Cost: 10 Euro per person
Meeting point: in front of the main entrance of the Istituto Professionale Carlo Porta, Via Uruguay 26/2, Milano. Detailed information will be emailed to you upon registration.
How to register: go to the registration page.
Immerse yourself in the rhythms and beauty of a real Italian professional kitchen under the guidance of Prof. Luca Cribiu. During the cooking class, you will be paired with one of the ‘Carlo Porta’ students and learn how to make a traditional Italian lunch, acquiring all the basic techniques of Italian cuisine. You can see some school’s information on their website https://www.carloportamilano.edu.it
Please note that this activity takes place in a real school during an ordinary school day. You will be working in a professional kitchen preparing and cooking food. Kitchen safety and sanitation measures apply.
Visit to the Niguarda Hospital School
Date and time:
May 8, 13.50-16.00 [Max 10 people]
May 9, 13.50-16.00 [Max 10 people]
Free of charge
Meeting point: Ospedale Niguarda, piazza dell’Ospedale Maggiore 3, Milano, in front of the walk in entrance to the hospital. Instructions will be mailed to you upon registration. A FFP2 Mask is required to access the Hospital area.
How to register: go to the registration page.
Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, best known simply as Ospedale Niguarda is the largest and one of the most important hospitals in Milan, Italy. For the congress attendees who wish to learn more about hospital education and experience it firsthand, we offer a tour of the Niguarda Hospital.
You will be introduced to the medical staff and teaching personnel; a tour of the facilities where the classes take place will also be provided.
The units where the Hospital School services are currently active are: Pediatrics, Unipolar Spinal Unit (USU), Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition/Eating Disorders (DCA), Cardiology 2 and Psychiatry 2. Out of the aforementioned, the visit will include the facilities of Pediatrics, USU and DCA.
Visit at the Verga center and Hospital School
Visit at the Verga Center
Date and time:
May 8, 14.30-17.30 [Max 15 people]
May 9, 14.30-17.30 [Max 15 people]
Free of charge
Meeting point: In front of the Stelline Hotel. Detailed information will be emailed to you upon registration.
How to register: go to the registration page.
The Association “Comitato Maria Letizia Verga” is a non-profit association established in the 1980s by parents and doctors committed to the fight against leukaemia. The driving force behind it was and is Giovanni Verga, father of Maria Letizia, who died of leukaemia in 1979 when she was just four years old.
Over the last 44 years the Association – based in the San Gerardo Hospital in Monza – has carried out countless activities focusing on infant leukaemia scientific and clinic research, activities that have made it possible to cure no less than 2000 children in Monza, turning the research and cure centre into a structure of excellence in Italy and throughout the world.
All this was achieved thanks to the alliance between parents and medical staff and researchers, all of whom have unceasingly worked for this goal. In keeping up with its mission, the Comitato has always seen its role as that of an auxiliary institution relative to public intervention, and has developed efficacious organizational solutions, making services and support activities available for patients. Significant examples include the Tettamanti Research Centre, Haematological Day Hospital, Maria Letizia Verga Residence, providing accommodation for families and those children undergoing therapy, and the Hospital School.
The biggest challenge has been represented by the construction of the new structure hosting the Oncohaematology Centre: the Centro Maria Letizia Verga, adjacent to the San Gerardo Hospital in Monza and active since June 2015.
The Association has been the promoter and financer of the project.
The “Centro Maria Letizia Verga for Infant Leukaemia Research and Cure”:
4 floors for a total of 8.400 sq.m., patient wards (all provided with individual rooms), Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Day Hospital, patient and family hospitality and services areas, medical studies, hospital school rooms, a cutting-edge laboratory within the Tettamanti Research Centre.
City and museums visit
Note: all the City and museums visits are independently managed and processed by Pink up srl.
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The Duomo of Milan, the top pf the city
Guided tour of Milan Cathedral and rooftop by elevator, duration: 60 min.
Cost per person € 23,50: min. – max 15 people
“Quella gran macchina del Duomo” [ “That great machine of the Duomo” ] in the thought and gaze of the Manzonian Renzo, is an architectural unicum, because of its imposing mass of Candoglia marble and its walkable terraces, walking on which one reaches the shadow of the Madonnina, the undisputed symbol of the city, which has towered on the highest spire since 1774.
no need to walk a lot – presence of some unevenness on the floor
Date and time: 9 May 5 pm.
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Milan city sightseeing tour
A walk through the center, among Milan’s most iconic monuments, to trace the city’s history. Starting from Piazza Duomo, the city’s religious center since Celtic era, whose current appearance dates back to the years following the Unification of Italy, through Milan’s living room – the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II- and Piazza della Scala, home to the world’s most famous theater, the walk continues to Castello Sforzesco, the ancient fortress built at the behest of the Visconti family, passing through one of the most representative places of the medieval era, Piazza Mercanti.
walking tour
Guided tour, duration: 90 min approx.
Cost per person € 20: min. 12 people – max 25 people
Date and time: 9 May 5:30 pm
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Tips for a personal visit in your free time
Please note that these visits are not organized and must be personally managed by the participants
Milan city of water: the Navigli
Along the Corso of Porta Ticinese, an important city road that connected Milan with Pavia, stood Milan’s first port in medieval times, the small lake of Sant’Eustorgio, which was transformed, with Spanish intervention, into the present Darsena, a real land port and basin into which two of Milan’s navigable canals, the Naviglio Pavese and the Naviglio Grande, still flow today. The walk provides an insight into a characteristic aspect of Milan, which not everyone knows as a city of water.
the rising Milan: Porta Nuova
One of the most recent skylines that have reshaped the profile and image of Milan as a city in step with the times is the new Porta Nuova district, among the largest urban regeneration projects in all of Europe. In recent years, modern skyscrapers have risen and continue to rise here, home to prestigious banks and companies, signed by the most popular contemporary “archistars”: from architect Boeri’s award-winning Bosco Verticale to Mario Cucinella Architects’ Nido Verticale, from Cesar Pelli’s Unicredit Building to the Torre del Diamante, otherwise known as “Diamantone.”
walking tour
Pietà Rondanini
The Pietà Rondanini is the last masterpiece of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who, almost 90 years old, worked on the unfinished block of marble. In 1952 the sculpture was purchased by the City of Milan, which keeps it in the civic collections of the Castello Sforzesco, in a museum dedicated to it that allows people to see it in the round, walking around it. The Pieta Rondanini Museum occupies the former hospital of the Spanish troops stationed at the castle in the 16th century, which was recovered precisely to house Michelangelo’s work. Access to the museum is guaranteed for people with a disability and allows visitors to admire the Pieta even while seated.
National Museum of Science and Technology (Leonardo Da Vinci Galleries)
The National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” with its total of 50,000m², is one of the largest in Europe. It has the world’s largest collection of machine models made from drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and the visit will focus on the Leonardo section, with his models built on the basis of drawings on civilian subjects, to military ones, from studies on architecture, with the model of the ideal city to those on flight, with the famous aerial screw. Also on view is a life-size, fully functioning wooden automatic loom made from studies of Leonardo’s codices.
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