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Remember that 90s dance hit Santa Maria? That's going round and round in my head now.There were more neat newly laid gardens over the top of the station, chopping the street in half so that traffic was less of a priority. Which is how it should be, of course.This was a less charming end of Milan, a bit more bland and corporate. The buildings were newer - probably built with one eye on that handy M4 link - and well-appointed but they were filler. Density for the sake of it. A cross at the road junction, and I could see Sforza-Polyclinico station up ahead, handy for the university and its entrances in a polite square that was still getting finished.That square was recently named the Largo Dario Fo, a tribute to the Nobel Prize winning playwright who died in Milan in 2016. I am an uncultured swine, so I'm not familiar with the works of Mr Fo; I headed to his Wikipedia page and discovered he was a satirist and political writer.Humour is very subjective, isn't it? It doesn't really travel…

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