"ago, filo e nodo" (needle, thread and knot) is a sculpture by the Swedish (American) pop-art artist Claes Oldenburg, which many people don't like, but I do, because it represents the symbol of fashion in the city of fashion. Yellow-green-red are Lithuanian colours :) but they're also the 3 colours of the main underground metro lines (there is also blue, "passante ferroviario", line 4 and 5 will be under construction) and in fact the thread goes down the ground to represent Milan metro. This sculpture is placed in Cadorna square, that is an important metro station, where red and green lines meet. It is also a train station, not the main one that is Stazione Centrale, but in Stazione Cadorna the train from Malpensa airport (the main airport) arrives here, so this scuplture is what tourists first see when they arrive in Milano.
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