Milan, the world’s fashion and design capital, is home to the headquarters of great fashion houses such as Valentino, Gucci, Versace, Prada, Armani and Dolce & Gabbana. In Milan, you can shop until your heart is content or your wallet empty. Milan is imposes itself has a leader in Italian commerce, sports, industry, music, media, literature, and art. Although it doesn’t possess the ancient landmarks of Rome, Milan is considered the center of modern Italy. The city is also noted for its special cuisine. Milan’s regional Lombard cuisine uses more rice than pastas and almost no tomatoes. Specialty dishes include cotoletta alla Milanese, cassoeula, ossobuco, risotto alla Milanese and brasato.
Highlights of the City:
Quadrilatero della moda: Also known as Via Montenapoleone fashion district,here is where you can find some of the best shopping in the world. You will be able to locate most leading designer stores such as Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Jil Sander, Zegna, Jimmy Choo, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Alberta Ferretti, Etro,Ralph Lauren, Salvatore Ferragamo, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Gucci and the list goes on and on.
Milan Duomo: The third largest cathedral in the world was finished over a period of four centuries.
Castello Sforzeco: A fortressbuilt in 1368 and later converted into a stunningly elegant renaissance residence.
The Teatro alla Scala Opera House: La Scala is a 17th century theatre house where theatrical events are held to this day.
Santa Maria delle Grazie: A former Dominican monastery where the famous fresco of The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci can still be viewed. Reservations need to be made to view the painting because of efforts to limit visitors and control the humidity in the room.
Parco Sempione: This 116 acre urban park is located between Piazza Sempione and the Sforza Castle. Visitors can enjoy the fresh air as they enjoy the gardens, fountains and the stunning Arco della Pace.
The Principe is the grandaddy of Milan hotels—ostentatious and slightly fraying, with a staff of elderly men who seem to have worked there since the beginning of time. It’s easy to imagine that it’s stayed the same for the last hundred years—crystal chandeliers in the lobby, ornate antique chests of drawers in the bedroom ...
You might surmise from the name that the Spadari is just steps away from the Duomo cathedral, and you'd be right. But close proximity to tourist attractions isn't what keeps the Spadari's style-conscious clientele coming back again and again—designers and editors set up shop here during the furniture fair, and it's a perenn ...
While Milan may be the capital of Italian fashion, you would never have known it from its hotels — until recently, they have all come in two flavors: the over-the-top opulence of the palatial luxury hotels, and the carpeted blandness of the corporate chains. The Gray is representative of a new (new to Italy, at least) movement toward moder ...
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Milan’s public image as a grey and smoggy industrial town seems to have receded (even if the greyness and smog have not) in favor of its status as the Italian couture capital. And who better to have as your host in this city of conspicuous consumption than Bulgari, the famous jeweler, watchmaker and luxury-goods house.
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The Straf is one of the new breed of high-design hotels to have recently opened in downtown Milan. The city that this hotel inhabits is less the dingy industrial center of decades past, and more the new Milan, the center of all things stylish in Italy. In this case, the architect, Vincenzo de Cotiis, is also a fashion designer — who better ...
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Some hotels need to be seen to be properly understood. Other hotel concepts, though, more or less speak for themselves. Simply at the mention of the Armani Hotel Milan one knows what one’s going to get: a bold and tasteful elegance, a certain richness in texture and materials, and of course an imposing silhouette — and one, inci ...
There are luxury hotels in Milan which are more centrally located than the Starhotels Anderson, and which inhabit more picturesque settings than this modern glass building around the corner from the central rail station. But not at this price. The Anderson isn’t for those trips where the client is picking up the tab — it’s for ...
Milan is a city that could use a bit of green. In a former life this was the Splendido, a fairly standard luxury hotel across from the central rail station, just northwest of the city center. In its current incarnation it keeps this location, of course, but it makes the most of the thin sliver of parkland between it and the station; today it&rsq ...
Collaborations between hoteliers and fashion houses are becoming more and more common, and perhaps nowhere do they feel quite so natural as in Milan, couture capital and hospitality hotbed. It’s here, in a disused 19th-century rail station, that you’ll find the Maison Moschino, as representative an example of the fashion-hotel genre ...
A fair bit of Milan, perhaps more so than any of Italy’s other major cities, is of a rather recent vintage. Its status as the country’s industrial capital meant the Second World War didn’t exactly treat it kindly. But there’s still plenty of deep history in this town, if you know where to look — for a start, there&r ...
If we were writing a TV ad we’d say it’s Milan Fashion Week style at Zara prices; if we were proper travel writers we’d make some kind of pun in the headline. Hopefully we would think of something better than Right Nhow. (As it is, we get to write the pun and blame someone else.) And anyway, you get the idea — this city h ...
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