Craft Fair in Milan

Last Sunday we went to Milan to visit a special Craft fair at the new Milan trade exhibition centre in Rho. We also wanted to see the buildings of this new centre designed by the italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas. It's amazing!

Here are some views of the buildings and the structure that covers the connections between them:

The fair was diveded in 4 main areas: Lombardy, Italy, Europe and Rest of the world.

Inside every area there were hundreds of stands of different kinds of crafts, art and food. There were also theme restaurants like chinese, brazilian, arabic, etc... in the "rest of the world" area, german, french, spanish, portuguese, etc... in the "Europe" area, and typical regional food from different italian regions in the "Italy" area. Ely and I chose to eat in the German area because we were attracted by the fantastic german sausages and bretzels that we found there. We also wanted to try the Austrian pastry stand, but we were too full for a slice of Sacher...

Our favourite parts of the whole fair were the arabic/african stands, because it was like being in an arabic souk market and the French stands, because it was like a Provencal market, with a nice smell of lavander. We bought a very nice tureen, which is an original pottery artwork from Israel in the "Rest of the world"area and a very nice mirror to hang in our house in the "Europe" area. The "italian" area was also very nice with a lot of food stands and we also found good ideas for little Christmas gifts for friends and relatives.

French stands entrance

Italian food stands

We really liked this craft fair and would visit it again next year.