Urgent information needed: I will be in Milano at the end of this month for 3 days.?

Question

I need:

1) A few main, important, historic places to visit

2) A few good places to shop (affordable, if possible)

3) A few expressions/phrases typical to Milano

4) A few nice places to enjoy typical food, wines, desserts

5) Somewhere to see local flora and fauna

Answer 1

the last supper painting is in milan...you need reservations so make them now.  i think milan has the best pizza.  in the galleria  are excellent fixed prix meals...stroll around the fashion district...take the train to como lake to see flora/fauna, it's a simple short trip....

Answer 2

Milan:

1. Duomo, Brera, The last supper

2. Nadine, La Rinascente, both downtown! (there are so many!)

3. Buy a mini dictionary, they're cheap at borders. You can fit it into your pocket!

4. Any restaurant in the galleria next to the duomo

5. Parco di Porta Venezia (giardini pubblici)

Answer 3

1. The cathedral (Duomo), Brera art gallery and the Last Supper (Google this last one for you have to reserve).

2. Shopping is great (and fun) up and down Corso Buenos Aires.

3) "Pirla" it's a strong way to call someone a j******f or a$$hole. This the only one that comes to mind.

4.a If you can get a car and have time, it takes about 45 mins from center city you should go to eat at the "Antica Osteria del Ponte", in Balbiano di Colturano, tel. [phone]. Ask your hotel to call for directions. It's a great county style place and the food very local.

4b. Pogue Mahone's - Via Salmi, tel [phone], closed Mondays.

4c SUSHIHIRO - it's a small sushi place on Viale Legioni Romane 55, 02.416030, closed Monday

4d. La Pobbia, Via Gallarate 92, 02.38006641, closed Sunday

4e. BARMETRO - for lunch and drinks - Piazza DeAngeli (right in the piazza), 02.435271

I have been to these places - several years ago. Call to make sure they are still open. There is a high turnover in Milan of these places.

4f. The Brera is a cool place in the evenings to hand out for some night life and music.

5a. Parco Sempione (in town),

5b. Idroscala (large park with man made lake where everyone goes during the hot months for a tan.

5c. If you have a car drive to near by Monza and visit the Monza park - rent a bike and enjoy part of your day out of the city.

Answer 4

About the 4th question:

If you eat in Galeria (near Duomo) as recommended by one of the guys above, it's 100% sure that you'll be cheated (you'll be charged 3times more) and you'll eat very low-quality food.

Most restaurants and bars in the center of Milano are established for tourists, who are most of the time assumed not to have the taste of a real italian. You'll eat low quality pasta, low quality pizza, or low quality of anything... and it's 100% known by Milanese people that these places charge 3 times more than the real cost of the food. For example, there's a bar called 'Gabbiano' in Galeria. If you're italian, you pay 4.5 euros for a piadina, whereas they charge 2times more if you are a tourist. This is common pratice, so be careful.

So, my recommendation to you is that, if you want to eat decently w/o being cheated, go a little out of the center, out of the Duomo area. You can understand that a restaurant is good at pizza if they have a wooden oven (forno al legno), otherwise it is 100% bad pizza (like frozen pizza). A pasta, on the other hand, has to be prepared on time to be good quality, so if you see that the bar/restaurant is exhibiting the pasta on their window (which is the case in most bars in center), you can understand it is low quality pasta, not prepared on time, but prepared hours ago, and just reheated in microvawe before being served. Which is awful in taste.  

Close to the center of the city, very close to Piazza Cardusio, on via Broletto (name of the street) there's a restaurant called 'Bella Vista'. Not a fancy place, but their pizza is good. Pasta is good. And reasonably priced. Just don't go b/w 1 to 2 pm, as it is very crowded. Also on Via Dante, very close to the center there're a lot of touristic bars, but there's one restaurant which is good quality (it's written restaurant at the enterance) but i don't remember the name now. Pizza there is not good, but pasta is good quality.

Good luck.

Answer 5

Just to add to what our Sindaco Genius Cook wrote...the navigli (Milano canals) are in this summer, with all kinds of activities. http://www.navigli.net/ .

Also, Castello Sforzesco, Teatro La Scala...and so on.

Otherwise click on this link http://www.turismo.comune.milano.it/pls/... , then open the itinerary box on top.  Make sure to change the language to English by clicking on the British flag...

I live forty minutes from Milano...have fun!!! and welcome to Lombardia....

Answer 6

1) the church. Gothic architecture is beautiful go inside if it is open when you get there.  Of course you should go see the soccer stadium.  Unfortunetly they will not be in season so you can not see the spectical.  I went in for a game and it was amazing.

2) everywhere it wont be cheap since Milano is a touristy area

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4)get off the beaten trail. although there is good restaurants near the church and main square go away from there for cheaper/better food!