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City guide · Italy
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.
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The Pinacoteca di Brera is Milan's principal public gallery of paintings, on the upper floor of Palazzo Brera in the streets north of the Duomo.
The Museo del Novecento occupies the Palazzo dell'Arengario at Piazza Duomo 8, the civic building on the south side of the cathedral square, and shows more than three hundred works selected from the four thousand-odd pieces of twentieth- and twenty-first-century…
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.
