Milan - Palazzo di Brera

West of Piazza Cavour and northwest of Piazza della Scala, in Via Brera, is the Renaissance Palazzo di Brera (1651-1773), originally a Jesuit college, which has been occupied since 1776 by the Accademia di Belle Arti. In the courtyard can be seen a monument to Napoleon I by Canova (1809). The palace contains a library (800,000 volumes) founded in 1770 and an observatory.