Milan Travel Guide

Milan is in the north of the country (close to the Swiss border), in a basin with the foot of the Alps and is the capital of Lombardy. Milan is the second most populated city of Italy but also the fourth metropolis at the European level. Best periods to visit Milan and Italy are spring and autumn where touristic activity is calmer. It is the greatest industrial park in Italy. Capital of the mode, the businesses and finance, Milan is a city which looks at future. In the middle of the second part of the XXème century, Milan becomes the most dynamic capital of Italy. The city accomodates modern institutions like the Italian Stock Exchange and preserves many monuments of interest like churches and museums. Duomo is the symbol of the city. It acts of the Gothic cathedral most impressive of Italy which lays out of an impressive panorama on the town of Milan. With proximity the gallery Vittorio Emmanuele II is, located in the most attended avenue of Italy, where are côtoient bars, coffees, bookshops and shops of mode. La Scala, theatre of the city built in 1776, is one of the most known theatres in the world. It is where one was created some one of the grand operas of the world like Mrs Butterfly de Puccini in 1904. But Milan abounds in other places as much worthy of interest like the ducal palate, the square of the mode, the streets where the shops of the most famous houses of mode of the world are located: via Montenapoleone, della Spiga, del Gesù, but also the museum Bagatti Valsecchi gathering a large collection of objects and decorative arts of time of the Italian Rebirth.