You know when they say, "Don't see beyond your nose?" Here is exactly what we are going to do today, try to walk around the city looking beyond, with our noses up.

Yes, because at the corners of streets or on buildings you will not only find the names chosen for the avenue, square or street you are walking along, with their house numbers... but often there are plaques, signs that remind us of people who lived right there or events that happened in the area.

Who has never seen in some town or even in remote villages the plaque reminding us "here Giuseppe Garibaldi dwelled"?... so much so that as a child I used to wonder if the mythical hero of the 1000 really made history or just enjoyed the comfort of countless beds... I'll be forgiven for the hero in a red jacket.

But back to my city, Milan .
If strolling along the pedestrian shopping artery of Corso Vittorio Emanuele we will pay attention more to the shop windows than to the license plates, we cannot fail to notice the statue of an ancient Roman, the Sciur Carera, a character who reminds us in Latin that "he who is about to criticize another must be devoid of all vice": the statue (Omm de preja, man of stone) was used to post political mottos, satires or anonymous signs. I wonder what he thinks today about the indifferent comings and goings that pass in front of it every day?