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City guide · Italy

Milan

A photograph of Milan
Photograph · Steffen Schmitz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Milan is Italy's economic capital, its metropolitan area producing about a fifth of national GDP, and it neither looks nor behaves like the Italian cities most visitors have in mind. The historic core is compact and radial, rings of street wrapped around the Duomo, and it can be walked; the rest of the city is at work. Around 1.36 million people live inside the boundary and some 6.55 million in the metropolitan area, the largest in Italy. What a short visit uses is the cathedral, the Navigli in the evening, and the trains out to the lakes.

Practical information
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Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. The Last Supper
    01 45 min

    The Last Supper

    Il Cenacolo Vinciano is a one-room state museum built around a single wall.

    • Must see
    • Art and culture venue
  2. La Scala
    02 1 hour

    La Scala

    Teatro alla Scala is Milan's opera house, and the block it occupies on Piazza della Scala is two visitable things at once: a working theatre with a season that sells out, and a museum inside the same walls that anyone…

    • Must see
    • Art and culture venue
  7. Acquaiolo
    07 1 hour

    Acquaiolo

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  8. Agnes Weber
    08 1 hour

    Agnes Weber

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  12. Anfiteatro
    12 1 hour

    Anfiteatro

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  14. Archeo
    14 1 hour

    Archeo

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  15. Arco
    15 1 hour

    Arco

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  16. Area 35
    16 1 hour

    Area 35

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  17. Ars Antiqua
    17 1 hour

    Ars Antiqua

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  18. Art D2
    18 1 hour

    Art D2

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue

How the city is laid out

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Getting around

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Nearby districts and related places

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Turn this list into a plan

Set your days, your pace and the hours you actually want to be out. The planner works around closing days and travel time, and leaves room to eat.

Plan Milan