Parco Sempione, a famous Milanese park, located in the historic centre and frequented every day by both the Milanese themselves and by tourists from every corner of the world, is home to an extraordinary but disturbing legend, that of the Veiled Lady.

The Veiled Lady, along with other ghostly figures that are meant to populate the corridors of the nearby Castello Sforzesco, seems to be a bewitching nineteenth-century woman, able to ensnare men with her seductive qualities without ever showing her face, to the point of driving them mad. Where does this ltalian legend come from? Let’s find out together.