Milan — Sights
Walk on the cathedral roof, then aperitivo at six.
- Milan Cathedral (Duomo) & Rooftop Terraces — A walk across the roof among a forest of marble spires
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II — A glass-domed arcade of luxury shops and old cafés
- The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie) — Fifteen minutes, forty people: Leonardo's mural, if you can book it
- Sforza Castle & the Rondanini Pietà — A red-brick castle hiding Michelangelo's last sculpture
- Pinacoteca di Brera — Hayez's The Kiss and Mantegna's foreshortened Christ
- Brera District — Cobbled lanes and ivy walls that fill with café tables at dusk
- Navigli Canals — Milan's evening stroll: a canal lined with bars and trattorias
- Teatro alla Scala & La Scala Museum — A museum ticket that lets you peer into the red-and-gold auditorium from a box
- Bosco Verticale & Porta Nuova — Tree-covered towers and glass skyscrapers: Milan's new face
- Cimitero Monumentale — A cemetery that works like an open-air sculpture museum
- San Siro Stadium Tour — Into the dressing rooms of the ground AC Milan and Inter share
- Fondazione Prada — A gold-leaf 'Haunted House' and a café designed by Wes Anderson
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana — A 400-year-old library with Caravaggio's fruit basket and Leonardo's codex
- Lake Como (Varenna & Bellagio) — An hour by train, 15 minutes by boat: pastel villages under the Alps
- Bergamo Città Alta — A hilltop town inside Venetian walls, reached by funicular
- Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio — Romanesque church of Milan's patron saint
- San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore — A church frescoed floor to ceiling
- Villa Necchi Campiglio — 1930s house and garden, a pause from the city
- Triennale Milano — Design shows, a garden, and a rooftop over the park
- Museo del Novecento — 20th-century Italian art, with the Duomo in the window
- Colonne di San Lorenzo & Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore — Sixteen Roman columns that locals use as a night-time sofa
- Parco Sempione & Arco della Pace — A long lawn behind the castle, ending at a triumphal arch
- Pirelli HangarBicocca — Kiefer's seven concrete towers inside an old factory
- Santa Maria presso San Satiro — Bramante's trick that makes a shallow wall look deep
- Museo Bagatti Valsecchi — A noble family home dressed as Renaissance