Milan travel info

Stand in Piazza del Duomo and your head tips back on its own. Around 135 white marble spires bristle off the cathedral, and with the right ticket you can walk among them on the roof. Look down between the pinnacles and you'll see pigeons and tourists in the square, and next door, under the glass roof of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, people carrying shopping bags. Back on the ground, spinning on your heel on the mosaic bull in the Galleria floor completes the standard first day.

This isn't Rome, with ruins lying around on every corner. Milan runs on a working city's rhythm. Mornings mean a brioche and cappuccino standing at the bar, lunch is a panino in fifteen minutes, and around 6 or 7pm everyone heads to a bar on the Navigli canals or in the lanes of Brera for aperitivo: a Spritz and a spread of snacks. In between you get your fifteen minutes with Leonardo's Last Supper (booked months ahead), cut across the courtyards of the Sforza Castle and ride the old orange tram 1 past La Scala. Around sunset, look up at the glass towers of Porta Nuova and the tree-covered Bosco Verticale apartments.

Most long-haul flights land at Malpensa. Hosting the February 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina) pushed things along: metro line M4 now reaches Linate airport, paper bus tickets are gone and you just tap a card. The hotel tax, on the other hand, used the Olympics as an excuse to climb to some of the highest rates in Italy. With a spare day, plenty of people take the one-hour train to Lake Como.

Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP)

Milan Linate Airport (LIN)

Milan Bergamo Airport (Orio al Serio) (BGY)