Milan is one of the Italy’s most famous quality entertainment destinations. Milan provides solutions for different types of people by offering activities, restaurants, clubs and other kinds of entertainment. We offers you some ideas for your stay in Milan

SHOPPING IN MILAN

For shopping, Milan is synonymous all around the world of fashion, class and elegance. Milan is the destination for luxury shopping, with its elegant boutiques and ateliers that can be found in the famous streets of the city like Via Montenapoleone Via della Spiga, Corso Buenos Aires, Via Borgospesso e Via Manzoni. Stores are true temples of luxury, with prestigious brands including Gucci, Armani, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Dolce and Gabbana, Versace and Valentino. For this fashion streets, Milan is famous all over the world and every year attracts millions of tourists. In the centre of Milan, just a short walk from the Cathedral of Milan, you can find one of the most amazing shopping centres in Italy, La Rinascente : ten floors where you will find everything you need. accessories, clothes, jewellery, perfumes, cosmetics, accessories for the home, Italian and foreign brands and, all characterized by their unique style and fashion. At the interior you can also find a floor dedicated to bars, restaurants of all different kinds as a sushi bar and a wine shop.

MILAN THEATRES

For lovers of theatre, Milan offers a myriad of possibilities, from ballet, Opera, theatrical shows and vibrant performances. The most famous theatre in Milan and all over the world is La Scala where you can admire the most elegant and charming Operas. If you love the theatre and its exciting and spectacular performances I suggest you the Piccolo Teatro , where now you can find the most successful show in Europe, Rain. A Canadian company that has staged a perfect mix of circus, theatre, acrobatics, dance, music shows .. unique, unrivalled. If you love ballet you can search more informations in the theatre Ventaglio web page. The Auditorium of Milan is and one of the most famous theatres in Milan after the Scala and it hosts the Symphony Orchestra and the Milan Choir of Giuseppe Verdi. A multifunctional space that hosts symphony concerts, choral ones and a rich variety of shows.

DISCOS

As for the night-life Milan offers the best clubs in Italy where the whole night you will dance with modern and exciting music. I suggest you some of the best clubs, the most easy to reach and the most beautiful of Milan. The Milan night-life host's to some of the most exclusive parties of Italy and many celebrities can be spotted entering high-end clubs surrounded by bodyguards. Clubs will cater to the sensitive needs of travellers, tourists, students and residents until the morning.
Alcatraz Milano It is the biggest club in Milan, unique in Italy for its structure of 3000 square metres, which also hosts concerts and events such as fashion shows. Easily reachable by public transport.
I Magazzini Srl A nightclub devoted to the music of quality and news from the international setting . This grand club is structured in two rooms where the most famous dj's of the world as Tiga, the Chemical Brothers , the Deep Dish were performed and it host's also a lot of concerts. In 2005 he won the MTV CLUBBING Best Club Award.
The Club The Club is one of the most fashionable nightclubs in Milan and it has hosted VIP' s such as Elton John and Barry White. The music ranges from the chill out, house, funk, soul and hip hop. The clients are young and selected.
Nephenta This is the most famous historic disco of Milan, located in the heart of the city, in Piazza Diaz, near the Milan Cathedral. The disco is easy to find by the number of luxury auto mobiles parked outside the club. A fashion disco with commercial music.
Codice a Barre The disco "Codice a Barrw" is located in the young area of the city of Milan, in the Navigli district. The disco is organized on two levels where you can find two rooms: a main room and a privee élite.

NAVIGLI DISTRICT

The Milan youth life is taking place in the Navigli area where you can find hundreds of proposals from different restaurants, clubs, discos, pubs and other fashionable places. The pubs are young, sophisticated and fashionable. The best time of the day to visit this area in Milan is the afternoon where you can have a romantic stroll among the canals, observing the traditional shops of old books, furniture and various objects, markets and street artists. Then at 7.00 p.m. in the atmosphere changes: the area become crowded for the happy hour.

RELAXING GREEN AREAS

The fist public gardens were created and designed by Giuseppe Bolzaretto between 1875 and 1862. The district is situated in the town centre between Porta Venezia, Corso Venezia, Via Palestro and Via Manin. One of the main parks of Milan is the Sempione Park, designed by Emilio Alemagna and located near Sempione Square and the Sfroza Castle. This park is wonderful, it includes the Napoleonic Arena, the Aquarium, the Art Theatre(La Triennale di Milano) and the city library. If you need a relaxing place where you can spend a lovely day with your family or friends, just go there. Parco Forlanini is another very important park in Milan; next to the Idroscalo, it is the perfect place to rest, in one of the biggest green spaces in Milan. If you want to visit a romantic and aristocratic park, this the the perfect place for you. I suggest you also the Giardino Guastalla, placed in the homonym street: a classy garden with a fish pond. This is not enough? Milan offers you another great park, the Lambro Park, located in Via Feltre: a very wide park with a relaxing atmosphere.

SAN SIRO STADIUM EVENTS: CONCERTS AND FOOTBALL MATCHES

As you surely know the San Siro stadium is the main stadium of Milan. There are many important football matches and concerts that take place and the same thing will happen in the future. Talking about football matches, how can we now mention the derbies between Inter and Milan? And all the other important matches of the Italian championship? Also some matches of the World Cup took place in this stadium in 1990, when Italy hosted this event. Very important as well, the Champions League's matches which run off in this important Milan stadium. For what concerns the concerts, many famous music star entertained their fans in this stadium with the shows. Some of them are Bruce Springsten, The Rolling Stones, which came to San Siro more than once, and the Italian singers laura Pausini and Negramaro. Talking about the future concerts in San Siro, we have to remember the Depeche Mode concert, on June 18th, the U2 concert on July 7th and in the end, but not less important, Madonna, on July 14th. So, as you can read the San Siro Stadium offers you a lot of music and sport proposals for your stay in Italy.

MILAN MARKETS AND FAIRS

As in any other big city such as Milan, during the week you can find a series of local markets where you can buy a lot of different things, such as food and clothes with the advantage of saving money compared to the prices of the supermarkets or shops near you. Hundreds of stalls displaying their products daily in different areas of Milan. If you are looking for special items you can rely on specialized markets or 'historical' fairs in the city, from flea markets, where you can really find a lot of antiques collections. Over the weekend, the most characteristic corners of Milan are transformed and are crowded by pedlars and fans of the exchange and barter, offering the old restored furniture, exchange stamps or telephone cards, looking for the missing piece for their collection. Some of the more interesting markets in Milan are the Senigallia Market: every Saturday morning, Viale d'Annunzio becomes a picturesque sight, very crowded, full of colours and smells typical of flea markets. Here you can find everything : craft works from all over the world; new and second-hand clothes, old furniture, art nouveau lamps, comics, videos, perfumed candles, every kind of essence and books. There are tidy stalls, where you can go looking for your bargain. The music of the Senegalese musicians accompany the people walking around with their frenetic rhythms, searching in the hundreds of stalls. Another big market is placed in the Navigli district: the Mercatone del Naviglio Grande takes place on the last Sunday of each month and it is a big exhibition-market dedicated to antiques: furniture, objects for the home, old books and jewellery. Here are some other markets:
PHILATELY AND THE POSTCARD When: Every Sunday Where: via Armorari - approximately 100 exhibitors
GREAT PAINTERS OF NAVIGLIO (exhibition of 250 artists) When: May Where: Naviglio Grande
ANTIQUES AT THE LIDO (vintage items of all kinds, furniture, tools, equipment) When: Second Sunday of the month Where: Piazzale Lotto
THE MARKET BETWEEN U.S. AND YOU When: Daily from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 15 to 19.30 (except Tuesdays) Where: via Marcora 8

MILAN MUSEUMS AND ART EXHIBITIONS

The intent of this description, devoted to Milan museums and cultural heritage ,is to redeem the image of the magnificent Milan too often linked only to the business, the worldly and fashionable places: Milan is also art, and especially culture and to show you that you can also enjoy the culture of Milan. Milan is the home for more than 30 museums that show works of art (paintings and sculptures), books, manuscripts and relics related to the world of science and technology as well as archaeological artefacts that testify how, even in past, Milan was one of the most important cities of our country. Some of the most famous and important museums in Milan are located in the centre of Milan, in areas where stood many of the liberal aristocrats clubs, and where writers, intellectuals, architects and artists such as Leonardo lived lived and operated. The most important museums are located into the Sforza Castle , built in the second half of the fifteenth century by the Sforza, that houses inside the Museum of Musical Instruments and Decorative Arts, the Museum of Prehistory and Protostoria, the Egyptian Museum and the Old Art Museum. For art lovers, there are many other museums in Milan such as the Pinacoteca di Brera ,the Museo d'Arte Paolo Pini, the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo, the Museo Diocesano and the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana where they are preserved works by Botticelli, Bramantino, Caravaggio and Leonardo.

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