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The
Milan City Marathon is a marathon
race previously held every November
in Milan, Italy. It was first
organised in 2000 by the Milano City
Marathon Club. The 2009 edition of
the race, initially set for November
2009, was shifted to April the
following year. The newly scheduled
event featured a marathon, half
marathon, and relay marathon event.
The move proved popular and at least
7213 runners took part in the
activities that year.
Milan
is a city in Italy and the capital
of the region of Lombardy and of the
province of Milan. The city proper
has a population of about 1,318,000,
while its urban area, roughly
coinciding with its administrative
province and the bordering province
of Monza e Brianza (created in 2004
splitting the eastern part from the
province of Milan itself), is one of
Europe's largest with an estimated
population of 4 million spread over
1,980 km2.
There
are few remains of the ancient Roman
colony that later became a capital
of the Western Roman Empire. During
the second half of the 4th century,
Saint Ambrose, as bishop of Milan,
had a strong influence on the layout
of the city, redesigning the centre
(although the cathedral and
baptistery built at this time are
now lost) and building the great
basilicas at the city gates:
Sant'Ambrogio, San Nazaro in Brolo,
San Simpliciano and Sant'Eustorgio,
which still stand, refurbished over
the centuries, as some of the finest
and most important churches in
Milan. The largest and most
important example of Gothic
architecture in Italy, the Milan
Cathedral, is the fourth largest
cathedral in the world[52] after St.
Peter's Basilica in Rome, the
Cathedral of Seville and a new
cathedral in the Ivory Coast. Built
between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the
world's largest collection of marble
statues with the widely visible
golden Madonna statue on top of the
spire, nicknamed by the people of
Milan as Madunina (the little
Madonna), that became one of the
symbols of the city.
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