What area to stay in Milan
Jun 4, 2019, 3:19 pm
#18
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 1
Excuse me but I really have to disagree about the fact that Milan is an uninspiring city, and not just because I have been living there for 6 years!
It could be seen as more business-oriented than a touristic destination but, apart from being the financial, fashion, design and commercial hub of northern Italy (and southern Europe), Milan has a lot to see and to do about art, culture, history, theatre, food and wine and obviously shopping.
Monuments like the Duomo church, the Royal Palace, Sforzesco Castle and its museums, Saint Ambrogio, Saint Marco; La Scala theatre.
Museums like the Science and Technology museum, Natural history museum, the Planetarium, Brera's Pinacoteca, Poldi Pezzoli, villa Necchi Campiglio, Bagatti Valsecchi, the Leonardo's Ultima Cena in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Armani museum, Prada's foundation, '900 Museum, and many more.
Or you can enjoy parks or shopping world-known streets like Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, or the more intimate atmosphere of Brera's district or Navigli.
So, there is a huge choice of things, and that's the reason of how many people visit it every year.
If someone is looking for a place to stay, well I would avoid railway station's areas, not very fashionable, and I'd choose the Duomo-Missori-Via Larga district, with a wide range of hotels.
For other infos, please be free to ask me!
It could be seen as more business-oriented than a touristic destination but, apart from being the financial, fashion, design and commercial hub of northern Italy (and southern Europe), Milan has a lot to see and to do about art, culture, history, theatre, food and wine and obviously shopping.
Monuments like the Duomo church, the Royal Palace, Sforzesco Castle and its museums, Saint Ambrogio, Saint Marco; La Scala theatre.
Museums like the Science and Technology museum, Natural history museum, the Planetarium, Brera's Pinacoteca, Poldi Pezzoli, villa Necchi Campiglio, Bagatti Valsecchi, the Leonardo's Ultima Cena in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Armani museum, Prada's foundation, '900 Museum, and many more.
Or you can enjoy parks or shopping world-known streets like Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, or the more intimate atmosphere of Brera's district or Navigli.
So, there is a huge choice of things, and that's the reason of how many people visit it every year.
If someone is looking for a place to stay, well I would avoid railway station's areas, not very fashionable, and I'd choose the Duomo-Missori-Via Larga district, with a wide range of hotels.
For other infos, please be free to ask me!
Finally someone who speaks from a place of knowledge rather thank ignorance. Thanks for this reply.
I'm Italian and I live in Milan and I'm so sorry to understand that PERCHE doesn't have discover Milan yet.
As all cities over in the world, Milan has some good areas and bad areas. but if PERCHE tells that Milano is just DUOMO and that's it...Some doubts come to me. Did you really visit Milano? I don't think do..or maybe not in the right spirit.
I'm a milanese girl and I assure i'm not anore
Jun 4, 2019, 4:10 pm
#19
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: On strike
Posts: 8,135
I used to stay in the center but it is complicated to get out by taxi (if you have more luggage than you want to take on the metro), but there are some great shops and museums very close by.
With all due deference to the Milan-haters, there are some great traditional museums (e.g., Brera), the Castello Sforzesco is worth a visit (including the museum with one of the other versions of the Pieta), the house museums are wonderful (Poldi Pozzoli etc) and the fashion area (Quadrilateral) near the Duomo, Galleria and La Scala is great.
But maybe I just imagine all that.
With all due deference to the Milan-haters, there are some great traditional museums (e.g., Brera), the Castello Sforzesco is worth a visit (including the museum with one of the other versions of the Pieta), the house museums are wonderful (Poldi Pozzoli etc) and the fashion area (Quadrilateral) near the Duomo, Galleria and La Scala is great.
But maybe I just imagine all that.