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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pinacoteca di Brera and Milano Centrale Railway Station.
Pinacoteca di Brera
Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
Milano Centrale Railway Station
Railway station
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Milano Centrale is the main railway station of the city of Milan, Northern Italy, and is the second busiest railway station in Italy for passenger flow and the largest railway station in Europe by volume.
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Library
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The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books and manuscripts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centro Storico and Outer Milan.
Centro Storico
The Centro Storico is the historic centre of the city of Milan, contained within the area once delimited by the medieval city walls and today by the streets forming the Corso Navigli easily distinguishable on the map of the city.
Milan
- Type: Locality with 1,380,000 residents
- Also known as: “015146”
- Location: Province of Milan, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.4642° or 45° 27′ 51″ northLongitude
9.192° or 9° 11′ 31″ eastPopulation
1,380,000Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)Open location code
8FQFF57R+MQGeoNames ID
6542283
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In Other Languages
From German to Spanish—“Milan” goes by many names.
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Duomo Museum and piazza del Duomo.
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