About Milan Tourism Guide

Milan Tourism Guide is an independent reference site about visiting Milan. It is not run by a tourist board, a hotel group or a tour operator, and nobody pays to appear in these guides.

The site exists because Milan is badly served by the usual travel writing. It gets treated as a one-day stop — Duomo, Last Supper, train to Venice — which is how most people end up disappointed by a city that rewards a slower look. The guides here are written on the assumption that you have two days, or five, or a Tuesday layover, and that you would rather know which tram to take than read another paragraph about Italian style.

What is on the site

Around 135 guides, organised into the areas people actually plan around:

• Attractions and museums — the Duomo rooftop, booking The Last Supper, Castello Sforzesco, the Brera and Ambrosiana picture galleries, Fondazione Prada, San Siro, the Monumental Cemetery.
• Neighbourhoods — Brera, Navigli, Isola, Porta Venezia, Porta Nuova, Porta Romana, Via Paolo Sarpi and the university district around Città Studi.
• Food and drink — risotto alla milanese and cotoletta, where the aperitivo ritual is worth the money, pizza, gelato, coffee, Michelin rooms and cheap eats under €15.
• Getting around — the metro, the historic trams, BikeMi, taxis, Trenitalia and Italo, and the three airports that all call themselves Milan.
• Day trips — Como, Bergamo, Verona, Lake Garda, Lake Maggiore, Turin, Bologna, Franciacorta and the Lugano border run.
• Itineraries — one day, two days, three, five, a week across Northern Italy, and a layover plan for six to twelve hours.
• Where to stay and what it costs — by neighbourhood and budget, plus a full breakdown of what a Milan trip actually costs.
• Practical tips — safety, common scams, tipping, SIM cards, accessibility, seasonal packing, and Italian phrases that are useful rather than decorative.

How the guides are researched

Every guide starts from primary sources: the venue’s own site for hours and ticketing, ATM Milano for transport fares and route changes, Trenitalia and Italo timetables for the day trips, and the Comune di Milano for events, museum-free days and civic schedules. Prices are quoted in euros with the year attached, because Milan revises them often and a figure without a date is worthless.

Where a guide makes a judgement — that a particular outlet mall is not worth the coach ride, that the Cinque Terre as a day trip from Milan is a long day for a short look — it says so plainly and explains the reasoning, rather than hedging. Recommendations are not ranked by commission, because there is none.

Keeping things current

Milan changed a great deal around the 2026 Winter Olympics, and a lot of published advice about the city is now out of date. Guides carry the year they were written for, and are revisited when something material shifts — a fare rise, a museum closing for restoration, a new metro extension opening. If you find something here that is wrong or has gone stale, the contact page is the fastest way to tell us, and corrections get made.

How the site is funded

Running the site costs money — hosting, domains, research trips, time. The plan is to cover that with display advertising. Advertising, if and when it appears, will be clearly identifiable as advertising and will never determine which hotel, restaurant or attraction gets recommended. Nothing on this site is a paid placement or a sponsored review. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on the page in question, not buried here.

A word on what this site is not

It is not a booking service. It does not sell tickets, take reservations, or hold your money. When a guide tells you to book The Last Supper the moment tickets are released, it is pointing you at the official vendor, not at itself.

It is also not a substitute for checking. Opening hours change, strikes happen, and Milan closes a surprising amount of itself in August. Use the guides to plan, then confirm the two or three things your day depends on.

Questions, corrections and suggestions are welcome — see the contact page.