31/08/2026
I have to admit… Milan is one of those cities. You either love it or you hate it.
Yes, they might silently judge your trainers, and please… don’t even mention flip-flops. 😂 You’ll see someone in an Armani jacket casually riding a bicycle as if that’s completely normal. It’s stylish, fast, sophisticated and, mmm… expensive.
But Milan has so much more going on than fashion, the Duomo and how close it is to Como. There’s Sforzesco Castle, the Pinacoteca di Brera, the extraordinary Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology, housed partly inside a beautiful 16th-century monastery and the largest science and technology museum in Italy.
And then there’s Anselm Kiefer’s The Seven Heavenly Palaces at Pirelli HangarBicocca , seven enormous concrete towers rising inside a former industrial space. Breathtaking, strange, monumental… and very Milan.
And those are just a few.
So yes, use Milan as your gateway to Lake Como and Northern Italy. Stay for the shopping if you must. 😉
Just don’t make the mistake of thinking Milan is only the place where you landed.