Lombardy
Grande Milano
Province of Milan

Milan

Milan is financially the most important city in , 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centro Storico and Outer Milan.

The 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.

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Suburban Milan is in the province of Milan.

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While the is the unquestionable heart of Milan, it is the north of the city that is its hub. Here you will find two most important railway stations - the imposing Milano Centrale and busy Porta Garibaldi - as well as the ever-growing array of office towers that make up Milan's modern skyline, housing the headquarters of companies that make Milan Italy's economic capital.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West Milan and South Milan.

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Western Milan is the part of the city that encompasses its only UNESCO World Heritage Site, which includes a famous painting. Other sights are a cemetery with - as the name reveals - monumental tombs, and the old fair centre where you might end up if you are visiting Milan on a business trip.

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Southern Milan is chiefly a residential part of Milan. While you can find a couple of old landmarks in here, there aren't as much of them as in the Centro Storico, and this part of the city is more "local" and "ordinary".
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

Museum
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The 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 , which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

Library
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The is a historic in Milan, , 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 and for books and manuscripts.

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The is Italy's oldest active shopping arcade and a major landmark of Milan. Housed within a four-story double arcade in the centre of town, the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brera and QT8.

Suburb
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is a district of Milan, . It is located within the and it is centred on Via . The name stems from Medieval Italian "braida" or "brera", derived from Old Lombardic "brayda", meaning a land expanse either cleared of trees or naturally lacking them.

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is a district of Milan, , part of the administrative division of the city. The name formally stands for Quartiere Triennale 8, but the district is also simply referred to as .

Suburb
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is a ward of Milan, , part of the administrative division of the city, located north of the city centre. It borders with the wards of , , , , and .

Milan

Latitude
45.4642° or 45° 27′ 51″ north
Longitude
9.1896° or 9° 11′ 23″ east
Population
1,350,000
Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)
IATA airport code
MIL
United Nations Location Code
IT MIL
Open location code
8FQFF57Q+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62505581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3173435
Wiki­data ID
Q490
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Milan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Милан”
  • Afrikaans: “Milaan”
  • Albanian: “Milano”
  • Amharic: “ሚላኖ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μεδιόλανον”
  • Arabic: “ميلانو”
  • Aragonese: “Milán”
  • Armenian: “Միլան”
  • Arpitan: “Milan”
  • Asturian: “Milán (ciudá)”
  • Asturian: “Milán”
  • Aymara: “Milano”
  • Azerbaijani: “Milan”
  • Balinese: “Milan”
  • Bashkir: “Милан”
  • Basque: “Milan”
  • Bavarian: “Mailand”
  • Belarusian: “Мілан”
  • Belarusian: “Мілян”
  • Bengali: “মিলান”
  • Bosnian: “Milano”
  • Breton: “Milano”
  • Bulgarian: “Милано”
  • Burmese: “မီလန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Milà”
  • Cebuano: “Milano”
  • Central Bikol: “Milan”
  • Central Kurdish: “میلان”
  • Chavacano: “Milán”
  • Chechen: “Милан”
  • Chinese: “Milano”
  • Chinese: “米兰”
  • Chinese: “米蘭”
  • Chuvash: “Милан”
  • Cornish: “Milano”
  • Corsican: “Milanu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Milan”
  • Croatian: “Milan” (historical)
  • Croatian: “Milano”
  • Czech: “Milán”
  • Czech: “Milano”
  • Dagbani: “Milan”
  • Danish: “Milano”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Milano”
  • Dutch: “Milaan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Милан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلانو”
  • Esperanto: “Milano”
  • Estonian: “Milano”
  • Extremaduran: “Milán”
  • Faroese: “Milano”
  • Fijian: “Milan”
  • Finnish: “Milano”
  • French: “Milan”
  • French: “Milano”
  • Friulian: “Milan”
  • Gagauz: “Milan”
  • Galician: “Milán”
  • Georgian: “მილანი”
  • German: “Mailand”
  • Greek: “Μεδιολάνα”
  • Greek: “Μιλάνο”
  • Guarani: “Milã”
  • Gujarati: “મિલાન”
  • Haitian: “Milan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mí-làn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Milano”
  • Hausa: “Milano”
  • Hebrew: “מילאנו”
  • Hebrew: “מילנו”
  • Hindi: “मिलान”
  • Hindi: “मिलानॊ”
  • Hindi: “मिलानो”
  • Hungarian: “Milánó”
  • Icelandic: “Mílanó”
  • Ido: “Milano”
  • Iloko: “Milan”
  • Inari Sami: “Milano”
  • Indonesian: “Milan”
  • Interlingua: “Milan”
  • Interlingue: “Milano”
  • Irish: “Milan”
  • Irish: “Milano”
  • Italian: “Milano”
  • Japanese: “ファッションの都”
  • Japanese: “ミラーノ”
  • Japanese: “ミラノ”
  • Javanese: “Milan”
  • Javanese: “Milano”
  • Kabyle: “Milano”
  • Kalaallisut: “Milano”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಲನ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಲಾನೊ, ಇಟಲಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಲಾನೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿ‍ಲಾನ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಲಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Milan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Милан”
  • Kazakh: “Милан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Милан”
  • Kirghiz: “Милан”
  • Komi: “Милан”
  • Korean: “밀라노”
  • Kotava: “Milano”
  • Kurdish: “Mîlano”
  • Ladin: “Milan”
  • Ladino: “Milano”
  • Lao: “ມິລານ”
  • Latin: “Mediolanum”
  • Latvian: “Milāna”
  • Lezghian: “Милан”
  • Ligurian: “Milan”
  • Limburgan: “Milaan”
  • Literary Chinese: “米蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Milanas”
  • Lombard: “Milan”
  • Low German: “Mailand”
  • Low German: “Milaan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mailand”
  • Macedonian: “Милано”
  • Malagasy: “Milano”
  • Malay: “Milan”
  • Malayalam: “മിലാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Milan”
  • Maltese: “Milano”
  • Manx: “Milaan”
  • Manx: “Milan”
  • Manx: “Milano”
  • Maori: “Mirano”
  • Marathi: “मिलान”
  • Mazanderani: “میلان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Milano”
  • Mingrelian: “მილანი”
  • Mirandese: “Milano”
  • Mongolian: “Mилан”
  • Mongolian: “Милан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميلانو”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߌߟߊ߲߫”
  • Neapolitan: “Milano”
  • Nepali: “मिलान”
  • Newari: “मिलान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mailand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Milano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Milano”
  • Norwegian: “Milano”
  • Novial: “Milano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Milan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Megelan”
  • Ossetian: “Милан”
  • Pampanga: “Milan”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਲਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਲਾਨੋ, ਇਟਲੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Milano”
  • Persian: “میلان”
  • Picard: “Milan”
  • Piemontese: “Milan”
  • Polish: “Mediolan”
  • Portuguese: “Milão”
  • Pushto: “میلان”
  • Quechua: “Milano”
  • Romanian: “Milano”
  • Romansh: “Milaun”
  • Russian: “Милан”
  • Rusyn: “Милано”
  • Sakizaya: “Mi-lan 米蘭”
  • Samogitian: “Mėlans”
  • Sanskrit: “मिलानो”
  • Sardinian: “Milanu”
  • Scots: “Milan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Milano”
  • Serbian: “Милано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Milano”
  • Shona: “Milan”
  • Sicilian: “Milanu”
  • Silesian: “Milano”
  • Sinhala: “මිලානය”
  • Slovak: “Miláno”
  • Slovenian: “Milano”
  • Somali: “Milan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میلان”
  • Spanish: “Milan”
  • Spanish: “Milán”
  • Swahili: “Milano”
  • Swedish: “Milano, Italien”
  • Swedish: “Milano”
  • Swiss German: “Mailand”
  • Tachelhit: “Milanu”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Milano”
  • Tagalog: “Milan”
  • Tagalog: “Milano”
  • Tajik: “Милан”
  • Talysh: “Milan”
  • Tamil: “மிலன்”
  • Tatar: “Милан”
  • Telugu: “మిలన్”
  • Tetum: “Milano”
  • Thai: “มิลาน”
  • Tibetan: “མི་ལཱན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mailand”
  • Turkish: “Milan”
  • Turkish: “Milano”
  • Turkmen: “Milan”
  • Twi: “Milano”
  • Uighur: “Milan”
  • Uighur: “مىلان”
  • Ukrainian: “Медиолян”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mailand”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Milan”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Milano”
  • Urdu: “میلان”
  • Urdu: “میلانو”
  • Uzbek: “Milan”
  • Venetian: “Miłan”
  • Veps: “Milan”
  • Vietnamese: “Milano”
  • Vlaams: “Milaan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Milan”
  • Volapük: “Milano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Milan”
  • Welsh: “Milan”
  • Western Armenian: “Միլան”
  • Western Armenian: “Միլանօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Milaan”
  • Western Panjabi: “میلان”
  • Wu Chinese: “米兰”
  • Wu Chinese: “米蘭”
  • Xhosa: “Milan”
  • Yakut: “Милан”
  • Yiddish: “מילאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “米蘭”
  • Zeeuws: “Milaan”
  • Zeeuws: “Milaen”
  • “ma tomo Milano”
  • “Meláne”
  • “Mėlans”
  • “Milàn”
  • “Milano”

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