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Milan

Gothic marble, Leonardo, canals and Italy's best aperitivo.

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Tips for Milan

Transport, opening hours, food and what to avoid.

  1. Getting there

    From Malpensa, take the train

    The Malpensa Express reaches Cadorna or Centrale station in about 50 minutes. It needs its own Trenord ticket: city transport tickets aren't valid on it, not even inside Milan.

  2. Getting there

    From Linate, take the metro

    The blue M4 line leaves from the terminal itself and reaches San Babila, a short walk from the Duomo, in about 15 minutes on a standard city fare.

  3. Getting around

    Tap your card at the gate

    Paper tickets were scrapped in 2026: just tap a contactless card or phone on the reader in the metro, trams or buses. A city fare is €2.20 and lasts 90 minutes.

  4. Getting around

    Tram 1 is a sight in itself

    Wooden trams from the 1920s still run on line 1, which passes La Scala. It's the prettiest way across the centre, on an ordinary fare.

  5. Eating

    Aperitivo hour is 6 to 9 pm

    Order a Campari, spritz or Negroni and snacks usually come with it, sometimes a whole buffet. It's the city's pre-dinner ritual, especially in the Navigli and Brera.

  6. Eating

    The coperto isn't a scam

    Many restaurant bills include a fixed per-person charge for bread and table service. It's legal and normal; tipping on top is optional.

  7. Eating

    Drink your coffee at the bar

    An espresso standing at the counter costs far less than the same cup at a table, especially around Piazza del Duomo and the Galleria.

  8. Opening hours

    Mondays, museums close

    Brera, The Last Supper, the Castle museums and the Novecento are shut on Mondays. Use the day for walking, shopping or a trip to the lake.

  9. Watch out

    The 'free' bracelets

    On Piazza del Duomo people tie a string bracelet on your wrist or put corn for the pigeons in your hand, then ask for money. Keep walking without stopping.

Checked on November 5, 2026

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  1. Essential

    Museums & culture· Duomo

    Milan Cathedral (Duomo)

    The vast Gothic cathedral of pinkish marble that took nearly six centuries to finish. Its rooftop terraces let you walk among the spires and statues above the city.

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    The Gothic marble façade of Milan Cathedral and its spires, seen from the square
  3. Essential

    Museums & culture· Centro

    La Scala

    The world's most famous opera house, plain outside and red velvet within. Its museum lets you look into the auditorium from one of the boxes.

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    The neoclassical façade of La Scala on Piazza della Scala
  4. Essential

    Museums & culture· Magenta

    Leonardo's Last Supper

    Leonardo da Vinci's mural in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, seen in small groups for a few minutes and only with a booking.

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper: Jesus at the centre of the table with the twelve apostles
  5. Essential

    Museums & culture· Castello

    Sforza Castle

    The brick fortress of the dukes of Milan, with courtyards open to all and museums inside, including Michelangelo's last sculpture.

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    The Portico of the Elephant in a courtyard of Sforza Castle
  6. Essential

    Museums & culture· Brera

    Pinacoteca di Brera

    Milan's great picture gallery, in a palazzo with a colonnaded courtyard: Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael and Caravaggio on one route.

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    The colonnaded courtyard of the Brera palace, with the statue of Napoleon in the middle
  7. Essential

    Special place· Navigli

    The Navigli canals

    The surviving canals of Milan's old port, lined with low houses, workshops and bars on both banks. At dusk it becomes the city's aperitivo strip.

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    The Naviglio Grande in Milan, with houses and bars along both banks
  8. Essential

    Special place· Porta Nuova

    Bosco Verticale

    The two tree-covered residential towers that became the symbol of modern Milan, next to the new skyline around Piazza Gae Aulenti.

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    The Porta Nuova skyline, with the UniCredit tower and the Bosco Verticale, seen from the Duomo rooftop

  9. Museums & culture· Sant'Ambrogio

    Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio

    The Romanesque basilica of Milan's patron saint, with an arcaded brick atrium and a ninth-century golden altar. It's the church the Milanese love most.

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    The arcaded brick atrium of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, with its façade beyond

  11. Museums & culture· Centro

    Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

    A library and gallery founded in 1607, home to Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit, Raphael's cartoon for The School of Athens and pages of the Codex Atlanticus.

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    The Biblioteca Ambrosiana, home of the Pinacoteca, in central Milan

  12. Museums & culture· Duomo

    Museo del Novecento

    Twentieth-century Italian art, from Futurism to Lucio Fontana, in the Arengario palace, with a picture window facing the Duomo.

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    The Museo del Novecento's great window looking out on the square and the Duomo

  13. Museums & culture· Porta Romana

    Fondazione Prada

    A contemporary art complex in a former distillery remodelled by Rem Koolhaas, with a gold-leaf house and Wes Anderson's Bar Luce.

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    An exhibition gallery at Fondazione Prada, with paintings hung on the walls

  14. Museums & culture· Monumentale

    Monumental Cemetery

    An open-air sculpture museum of family tombs, in styles running from Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

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    The front of Milan's Monumental Cemetery, with the striped marble Famedio

  15. Museums & culture· Quadrilatero

    Poldi Pezzoli Museum

    A 19th-century collector's home with its rooms kept as they were, and Piero del Pollaiuolo's Portrait of a Lady, one of the city's emblems.

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    A 16th-century Persian carpet from the Poldi Pezzoli Museum collection

  16. Museums & culture· Porta Venezia

    Villa Necchi Campiglio

    A 1930s villa with garden and pool in the middle of the city, kept with its furniture and art collection. It starred in the film I Am Love.

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    The 1930s interior staircase of Villa Necchi Campiglio

  17. Nature & beaches· Sempione

    Parco Sempione

    The big park behind the castle, with a pond, little bridges and the Arch of Peace at the far end. It's where the Milanese run and lie on the grass.

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    An avenue in Parco Sempione with the Arch of Peace at the end

  18. Viewpoint· Sempione

    Torre Branca

    The steel tower Gio Ponti designed in 1933 in Parco Sempione. A lift takes you to the top for views over the city and, on clear days, the Alps.

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    The steel-framed Torre Branca among the trees of Parco Sempione

  19. Special place· Ticinese

    Colonne di San Lorenzo

    A row of sixteen Roman columns in front of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. In the evening the square fills with young people and drinks.

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    The row of Roman columns of San Lorenzo in front of the basilica

  20. Shopping· Quadrilatero

    Via Montenapoleone

    The main street of the fashion district, with Italy's big fashion houses in old palazzi. Walking it and looking in the windows costs nothing.

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    A delicatessen shop window on Via Montenapoleone

  21. Restaurant· Duomo

    Luini

    The panzerotti shop by the Duomo that has been frying and baking these stuffed pastries since 1949. Order at the counter and eat standing in the street.

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    The Panzerotti Luini sign above the shop door near the Duomo

  23. Restaurant· Porta Venezia

    Pizzeria Spontini

    A pizzeria since 1953 that makes essentially one thing: a thick, airy slice heavy on mozzarella, ordered regular or large.

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    A Pizzeria Spontini shop in Milan with its sign

  24. Café· Quadrilatero

    Pasticceria Cova

    The pastry shop founded in 1817, now on Via Montenapoleone, with a marble counter and old-world rooms. Coffee and cakes in the heart of the fashion district.

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    The entrance of Pasticceria Cova on Via Montenapoleone

  25. Café· Duomo

    Camparino in Galleria

    The 1915 Art Nouveau bar at the mouth of the Galleria, with flowered mosaics. At the counter they pour Campari the original way, with soda.

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    The entrance of Camparino, once Caffè Zucca, in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

  26. Café· Città Studi

    Bar Basso

    The old-school bar where the Negroni sbagliato was born, made with sparkling wine instead of gin, and served in giant goblets.

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    Bar Basso on Via Plinio

  27. Nature & beaches· Lake Como

    Como

    The lakeside town under an hour away by train, with its cathedral, a waterfront promenade and a funicular up to the village of Brunate.

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    Como and its lakeshore seen from Baradello Castle

  28. Nature & beaches· Lake Como

    Bellagio

    The village on the point where the lake splits in two, with stepped lanes and villa gardens. You arrive by boat from Como or Varenna.

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    Bellagio on the tip of its headland, with Lake Como and the mountains

  29. Museums & culture· Bergamo

    Bergamo Città Alta

    Bergamo's hilltop old town, ringed by UNESCO-listed Venetian walls, with Piazza Vecchia and the Colleoni Chapel. A funicular takes you up.

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    Bergamo's upper town at sunrise, its towers and domes on the hill

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The Gothic marble façade of Milan Cathedral and its spires, seen from the square8 places

Milan essentials

The Duomo and its Galleria, La Scala, Leonardo's Last Supper, Sforza Castle, Brera, the Navigli and the Bosco Verticale: Milan in eight stops.

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in central Milan12 places

Milan, from Gothic to skyscrapers

From the Roman columns of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio to the Duomo, the Galleria, Gio Ponti's tower and the Bosco Verticale.

The colonnaded courtyard of the Brera palace, with the statue of Napoleon in the middle8 places

Milan's museums

The Last Supper, Brera, the Ambrosiana and the Castle for the old masters; the Novecento and Fondazione Prada for modern art, plus two house museums.

The entrance of Camparino, once Caffè Zucca, in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II7 places

Where to eat in Milan

Risotto and cotoletta at an 1880 trattoria, panzerotti by the Duomo, Spontini's thick slice, pastries at Cova and aperitivo at Camparino, Bar Basso and the Navigli.

Bellagio on the tip of its headland, with Lake Como and the mountains3 places

Day trips from Milan

Lake Como, with the town of Como and the village of Bellagio, and Bergamo's walled hilltop old town: two easy day trips by train.

Milan works on foot from the Duomo: La Scala, the Sforza castle and the lanes of Brera are a short walk away, and the metro gets you to the Navigli canals or the towers of Porta Nuova in minutes. We've gathered the essentials, the architecture from Gothic to modern, the museums, where to eat like a local and day trips to Lake Como and Bergamo. Pick a collection, save it to Google Maps and have it ready on your phone.

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