Courtesy of the estate of Dino Buzzati
MILAN — When most people see the Milan Cathedral, they think of a huge, amazing sand castle. Dino Buzzati — one of Italy’s best writers of the 20th century, who also loved painting — saw a mountain, a towering range in his beloved Dolomites in northern Italy, where he was born in 1906. The image of the cathedral morphing into an Alpine ridge, with its cliffs, pinnacles and gorges, dates to 1958; 61 years later, the picture turns out to be prophetic. Milan is rising.
On June 24, the International Olympic Committee announced that Milan, together with Cortina d’Ampezzo, a large ski resort in upper Veneto, had beaten Stockholm to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.