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Plan Your Trip Welcome to ...... 4 Top Sights ...... 6 Eating ...... 10 Drinking & Nightlife ...... 12 Shopping ...... 14 Art ...... 16 Architecture ...... 18 History ...... 19 Design ...... 20 For Kids ...... 21 Four Perfect Days ...... 22 Need to Know ...... 24 Milan Neighbourhoods ... 26

The original Prada store CASIMIRO PT/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

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Explore Survival Milan 29 Guide 145 Duomo & San Babila ...... 31 Before You Go ...... 146 Quadrilatero d’Oro & Arriving in Milan ...... 147 Giardini Pubblici ...... 49 Getting Around ...... 148 Brera & Parco Essential Information ... 149 Sempione ...... 69 Language ...... 152 & Isola ...... 85 Corso Magenta & Sant’Ambrogio ...... 97 Special Features ...... 111 Duomo ...... 32 & ...... 36 Porta Vittoria ...... 125 ...... 50 Worth a Trip ...... 70 Borromean Islands ...... 134 ...... 72 Como ...... 138 The Last Supper ...... 98 Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia .....100

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MilanMilan is ’sItaly’s city ooff the ffuture,uture, a ffast-pacedast-paced metmetropolisropolis wwherehere creativ- ity is bbigig bbusinusiness.ess. FFromrom cuttcutting-edgeing-edge designdesign to creatcreativeive ddiningining and a sidsidewalkewalk scene thathatt makes Fashion Week seem redundant,redundant, MiMilanla is both thrilling and fun. Everyone here is fizzing with ideas and ambition, and it’s catching. Unlike nonna’s Italy further south, the Milanese, like New Yorkers, are refreshing modernists. The main currency here isn’t the euro or amazing design gadgetry – it’s inspiration.

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Duomo With its ageless marble facade and countless pinnacles and spires piercing the sky, Milan’s splendid Gothic cathedral is a veritable Plan Your Trip outdoor sculpture museum. p32 SHINKAJI/SHUTTERSTOCK © Top Sights Top

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UITRO/HTESOK©POOBN/HTESOK©CLAUDIODIVIZIA/SHUTTERSTOCK © PAOLOBONA/SHUTTERSTOCK © YURI TURKOV/SHUTTERSTOCK © The Last Supper Saved from WWII bombs by a bank of sandbags, ’s Last Supper (pictured left; Il Plan Your Trip Cenacolo) is one of the world’s most iconic images. p98 Top Sights Top

Pinacoteca di Brera Founded in the 18th century, the Pinacoteca houses a priceless collec- tion of Old Masters that include the likes of , Ve- ronese, Bellini and . p72

Museo del Novecento Milan’s stun- ning collection of 20th-century art is fittingly housed in the rigorous, Fascist-era Palazzo dell’Arengario. p36

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Castello Sforzesco Former residence of the dukes of Milan, Sforza castle is one of the big- gest citadels in Europe. It now houses the city’s civic museums. p70 AAIABLV/HTESOK©LESTERTAIR/SHUTTERSTOCK © CATARINABELOVA/SHUTTERSTOCK © Plan Your Trip Top Sights Top

Museo Poldi Pezzoli Poldi Pezzoli’s historically themed apartments offer a preserved-in- amber insight into the heyday of 19th-century patronage. p50

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Isole Borromee In Lake Maggiore’s most beautiful corner, the Borromean Islands har- bour the spectacular palaces of the Borromeo family. p134 ANTON_IVANOV/SHUTTERSTOCK © Plan Your Trip Top Sights Top VIKTOR GLADKOV/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Dedicated to inventor Leonardo da Vinci, Italy’s finest science and tech- nology museum is housed in a 16th-century Olivetan monastery. p100

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