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Milan

Milan is financially the most important city in Italy, and home to the Borsa Italiana stock exchange. It is the second most populous city proper in the country, but sits at the centre of Italy's largest urban and metropolitan area. Wikivoyage

Population 1,354,196 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Italy

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Italy

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Milan. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Corteo dei Re Magi

    January

    A parade in Milan featuring the Biblical Three Wise Men who visited Jesus on Epiphany

  2. African, Asia, Latin American Film Festival of Milan

    March

    African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival (Italian: Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina, FESCAAAL) is an annual film festival in Milan, Italy.

    Official site Wikipedia

  3. Milano Film Festival

    September

    Milan Film Festival (MFF, Italian: Milano Film Festival) is an annual independent film festival held since 1996 in Milan, Italy.

    Official site Wikipedia

  4. Courmayeur Noir Film Festival

    December

    Noir in Festival is a film noir film festival, held each December in Milan, Italy. Until 2015, it was held in Courmayeur.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Milan); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 96 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

Train stations: Milano Cadorna 1.2 km, Milano Repubblica 1.9 km, Milano Porta Venezia 1.9 km, Milano Dateo 2.1 km, Milano Porta Garibaldi (passante) 2.2 km, Milano Tibaldi 2.3 km, Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station 2.3 km, Milano Centrale 2.6 km, Milano Porta Vittoria 2.7 km, Milano Scalo Romana 2.7 km, Milano Domodossola 2.9 km, Milano Romolo 2.9 km, Milano Lancetti 3.4 km, Milano Forlanini 3.6 km, Milano Lambrate 4.4 km, Milano Bovisa Politecnico 4.9 km, Milano Rogoredo 5.1 km, Milano Villapizzone 5.2 km, Milano San Cristoforo 5.3 km, Milano Greco Pirelli 5.7 km

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