Milan is definitely is a very tourist’s first choice when he comes on a tour of Italy. And it is advisable to people to spare more than one day while visiting on a tour of Milan. In this bustling city of business, fashion and banking there is more to do just then touring and roaming. Below are given ideas of some innovative things to do in Milan.

•    Window Shop in the Quadrilatero d’Oro: As Milan is the fashion capital of Italy, so it is very obvious it is a fit city to do some great shopping.  Watching the beautiful people parade up and down the streets of the Quadrilatero d’Oro carrying their goods and products in pretty bags is a good example of having enough past time and leisure. One can do ample window shopping at places like  Prada, Armani, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferragamo, and Valentino.

•    Look around the City from the Duomo Roof: There is an elevator at the famous Duomo to reach at its roof and can have a view of the entire city from its top as Duomo is located in the center of city and provides a  proper view of the entire city. As Milan has gone to smoggy so you need to stay at the roof even for an hour and so to get the best view of the faraway mountains and there is no better way to spend out your time in Milan.

•    Visit Santa Maria Church: Another smarter way to have an idea about the culture of Milan is to watch see and praise Leonardo’s masterpiece, a visit to the Santa Maria delle Grazie church to see “The Last Supper” is definitely a treat to see. However it is bit difficult to get tickets for last supper and sometimes it is radical to have an advance booking before months for event. However, yet there is facility to book tickets online that can save you from standing in long  queues.

•    Try to peep into local football clubs in Milan: Milan has the two most famous football clubs to its credit which are AC Milan and Inter Milan. You should at least should watch the match of soccer teams situated in the city AC Milan and Inter in the world’s most well-known stadiums as they are good enough. Even if there is no game you even can tour the San Siro Museum in place.

•    Chew a Panzerotto from Luini: Many Italian cities are popular for the particular culinary treat, and Milan by any mean is no different to it. In Milan even one can stop at Luini for a panzerotto over a traditional osso buco any day. This hard-to-describe treat is very appeasing and favorite among locals as they stand their before the shop even for an entire year.

•  Navigate through the Milan’s Canals: Contrary to believe and faith, you can see many canals in Milan which are designed by the Leonardo da Vinci himself. The Navigli district of Milan has two canals where you can walk around even without watching them out.  The Navigli is one area that in Milan is less beautiful and has become favorite spot even for artists too. So in and around these areas you can have cute shops, small art galleries, and charming restaurants.

•  Visit at the Pinacoteca di Brera: If you are an art lover then despite being  too much busy you can make a trip of the lovely Pinacoteca di Brera that is a world class museum Here you can have a good collection of primary Italian paintings as to view and praise. Here one can have opportunity to see masterpieces from        Caravaggio, Raphael, Mantegna, Hayez, Rembrandt, and Tintoretto. After visiting the museum you can stroll through the Brera neighborhood that is filled with picturesque streets lined with cute shops and corner restaurants.

•    Enjoy yourself in solace of parks in Milan: For many good reasons Milan is a place that remains busy and crowded for most part of the day and by any mean is not indifferent from any urban center or metro at any other corner of the world. However despite of this hustle bustle in Milan, it is its parks that keeps it some how calm and soothing despite of being of dwelling place for urban crowd.  There are many good sized parks in the Milan where a person can enjoy himself to full as in spots like Parco Sempione, Giardini Pubblici and others.

Milan to a comparison is known to be the fashion capital of the world and it is there a lot can be offered to people there in trend setting of fashion and luxury in Milan. As with perspective of shopping there are multiple places and activities in Milan that can be carried out by a person. Milan has all for one’s enjoyment from the designer’s prestigious emporia, retail giants’ outlets, and small entrepreneur small and funky boutiques to second hand average shops.

There are many shopping areas in Milan which are popular by the name of Fashion Quadrangle that is a set of centers like Duomo Square, Cavour Square and San Babila Square. More the Montenapoleone Street at Della Spiga Street, Vittorio Emanuele Street, Sant’ Andrea Street, Porta Venezia avenue and Manzoni Street keeps the most prestigious boutiques and showrooms in the world. Everything there reeks of ostentation and the splendor of a chic, fashionable lifestyle. There shop windows are popular for the all the best luxurious items.

•    Armani Megastore, Via Manzoni 31, near La Scala: Spread around in an area of 8,000 square feet it has outlets and shops for high-fashion creations like the Emporio Armani and Armani Jeans lines and the new Armani Casa selection of home furnishings as well as flower, book, and art shops; a high-tech Sony electronics boutique/play center in the basement.

•    Abercrombie & Fitch, 12 Corso Giacomo Matteotti: This is one of the most popular flagships store in Milan. It is the first mall of the world that contains both Abercrombie kids and A&F together at in a single shop. It is a huge departmental store with three floors that occupy around 30,000 square feet area.

•    Prada, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele: It is one of the Prada’s several boutiques in the city; it is situated close to Duomo and the central square. It sells a good number of high-fashion items like shoes, perfume, handbags, accessories etc.

•    10 Corso Como: Operational from 1990s it is a multi-functional shopping complex and has reputation as a lifestyle emporium that is 13,000 square feet big. The items sale out from here contains fashion shops, design, photography, art gallery, luxury goods, a bookshop, accessories, a cafe and a restaurant. It is situated at Garibaldi district, near the Centro Direzionale. It too has a courtyard, and a European/Oriental inspired interior design.

•    La Rinascente, Piazza Duomo: It is quite a big departmental store in Milan that is situated at the center of city close to Cathedral and Galleria, and very close to the sophisticated shopping zone. Here you can get houseware, design and appliances, male, female and children’s fashion, youthful sports’ clothes, jewellery, accessories, cosmetics, watches, perfumes, glasses, socks, underwear, lingerie, gifts, table decor, a hair stylist, a restaurant, sushi bar, food market, sandwhich and other items.

•    Basement, Via Senato, 15: It is a hidden shopping outlet that cannot be viewed straight from the street over it. In order to reach at this shop a person needs to go at Via Senato no. 15. The shop keeps a good number of designer cloths including from Moschino, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent, to D&G and La Perla provided with massive discount.

•    Serravalle Scrivia, Via della Moda, no. 1: It is one of the biggest shopping outlets in Europe and it contains around 180 stores. It is situated 1 hour’s drive away from the Piedmont region and is worth visiting for every person who is a die hard shopping fan. Its Italian style piazzas and pretty alleyways make it mini town. More it is surrounded with beauty of rolling hills and a lovely country side. There one can have designer names like Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Diesel, Roberto Cavalli, Ferragamo, Timberland, Tommy Hilfiger, Prada, Geox, Swatch, Bulgari, Swarovski, and many others.

For people with a lesser amount in wallet can also have their shopping extravaganza at a number of places like Vercelli Avenue (MM1 Pagano, MM1 Conciliazione subway stations). Another one is Buenos Aires Avenue containing shops like  MM1 Porta Venezia, MM1 Lima, MM1/MM2 Loreto subway stations is reputed as the longest shopping street in Europe. Corso Buenos Aires connects Porta Venezia to Piazzale Loreto.

The Brera district is also not be missed out for trendy and young boutiques. It is also popular for other things like ancient rare art stores and galleries, refined-air cafe, funky disco and exotic furniture. There are lots of young designers in the city who have made less expensive boutiques with high quality fabrics and aesthetics. The Brera district combines Jewelry stores involving Papic oro e argento, Alcozer & J. Bijoux. Fashion shops in the area include Accessori or Laura Ashley, and furniture stores include Zohar or Lucitalia.

For person who like do shopping while wandering around and that even on a downtrodden prices there a flea market takes place at Fiera di Senigallia near the Darsena. This is a unique place to wander and browse, and save money if you’ve have not enough money to spend at Milan’s high end boutiques. At the market one can go through the second hand clothes, old furniture, fake art nouveau lamps and perfumed candles.

Another popular market in Milan is the Mercatone Del Naviglio Grande. This takes place along the Alzaia Naviglio Grande on every last Sunday of each month.  The market is dedicated to antiques, having round about 400 exhibitors, with sure items something indeed catch your eyes. Serravalle Scrivia considered being the first designer outlet in Italy is the biggest in Europe.  It has around 3000 parking lots a children play grounds, bars and restaurants. Corso Buenos Aires is the best street in the city for outlet shopping, since it contains many of the big shopping centers and department stores.

Milan is one of the fashionable cities of Europe and has many historic and attractive places to look at.  It has the largest monument of Gothic architecture in the world. It also houses Last Supper painting and the famous La Scala Opera house. Below is given brief some of the attractive places of Attraction in Milan.

• Duomo (Cathedral): It is the main Cathedral Church of Milan and is seat of Archbishop of Milan, presently Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi. This Gothic cathedral entirely took five centuries for it to be completed and it is the fourth largest church in the world.  Milan’s layout with expansion of streets suggests that the Duomo cathedral has possession of about the most central site in Roman Mediolanum, that of the public basilica facing the forum. Saint Ambrose’s ‘New Basilica’ was constructed on this site at the start of the 5th century with an adjoining basilica added to it in 836. When a fire damaged both buildings in 1075, they were later on reconstructed as the Duomo.

•    La Scala Opera: It is world famous opera house in Milan that has unparallel reputation for cultural activities being organized over here. The theatre was inaugurated on 3rd August 1778 and is presently operates under the name New Royal Ducal Theatre at La Scala. The most memorable performance at the opera was of Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta. Presently, the theatre is being recognized as one of the prominent opera and ballet theatres across the world and is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and La Scala Theatre Orchestra. It also has an associated school being known as the La Scala Theatre Academy that provides professional training ogn de a  s Ti The theatre also has an associate school, known as the La Scala Thea in music, dance, stage craft and stage management.

•    Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II: This is a typical 19th century “Galleria”, a typically 19th-century public building which is now used for events and activities like a series of competitions for the design won by Giuseppe Mengoni. Its 47 meter high dome is made of iron and corrugated glass. It has aesthetically rich telamons and caryatids on the interior façades and the Neo-Renaissance-style stucco work and graffiti. Its floor in shape of the octagon was completely restored in rich1966 in rare marble mosaic showing the emblems of Italian cities. The art nouveau Bar Zucca towards the Piazza Duomo is the traditional stop for an aperitif and neighbours the elegant restaurant Il Savini

•    Corso di Porta Venezia: It is one of the best and beautiful streets in the city of Milan and is situated close to magnificent Montenapoleone area and thus is bordered by state-of-art beautiful villas, museums and palazzo showing the history of the city from times. It also contains areas of the Giardini Pubblici, an old and leafy garden and park.

•    Piazza del Duomo: It is the primary square in the city of Milan in Italy. It derived its name from the domineering Milan Cathedral. The place is gets equally crowded by humans as well as pigeons and aesthetics of the place makes it suitable for photography. The square was developed by Azzone Visconti in circa 1330 for business purposes. For expanding the square Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1385 demolished some houses and other Baptistery. It was again extended in 1458 and 1548. The huge central square situated across the Milan cathedral has always been a reference point for Milan’s town planners. In history and even today at present time it is a meeting point for important roads. In the 4th century, it developed as center for religious congregation since the construction Basilica of Santa Tecla, and the Baptistry of San Giovanni alle Fonti however both were razed in course of 14th century and their foundations can presently be viewed in front of cathedral. In present time during 1939, there symmetrical porticoes lines was made in 1939 and the Royal Palace on the south side and Galleria on the north side.  However, by any means, it has become a very important spot for social, cultural and mercantile activities in city.

•    Sforza Castle: Castello Sforzesco in Milan was residence of the ruling family of Milan and it presently serves as Milan’s many museums and art collections. The construction on the site of the castle started back in 14th century. When in year 1450, Francesco Sforza started reconstruction of the castle and simultaneously further modification to castle was provided by successive generations. The rooms of the castle are best known for its interiors and the post recognized room there is by Sala Delle Asse that has an existing ceiling paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci.After the French victory in the 1515-Battle of Marignano, the defeated     Massimiliano Sforza, his Swiss mercenaries and the cardinal-bishop of Sion retreated into the Castello Sforzesco. However, King Francis I of France chased d them into Milan, and his sappers placed mines under the castle’s foundations, and seizure of the castle accomplished and was successful. When in 19th century, Italy unified, then, the restoration of the castle took place and it was being started for civilian use.  Its restoration work was directed by Luca Beltrami. The castle had a severe damage due to the allied bombardment of Milan in 1943 during World War II.

Being a division of twenty distinct zones, Milan operates under the rule of the local council. All these areas have name zone, and each of them plays a very important role in the running of Milan. All these zones are quite important with their history and growth rate being mastered for quite some time.

Just to name but a few, to begin with, these zones include;
The Centro Storico; this is the historical centre from which a lot of incorporation is done with the fashion district. Quite a number of people prefer living in the city centre despite the fact that there are disadvantages. Some of the disadvantages that exist in such a region include insufficient parking spaces, supermarkets; the rent has also proved to be so high for some people to bear with. More to this, there is always so much to be done with so many bars and restaurants that only require a walking distance and the summer in this area during the evening is quite a real bliss.

The Corso Buenos Aires; this is another very famous street which is well equipped with residents involving businessmen and visitors. With its intersecting roads, Corso Venezia is located in a place that has a lot of families which are considered as noble families for this matter. They are some times used as residential houses and other times used as offices of luxury.

Amendola-Fiera and San Siro; Being a residential area, this district can be counted strongly due to its trade affairs. From its location we can see a lot of trees which are lined and exhibitions that support the trade activities. Pallazzi are also widely available and were constructed time back in the 1930 and till this moment they are still in very good conditions. Vittoria has as well been marked as a residential area but one that supports a lot of trade. Middle class people are self sacrifice to make ends meet through hard work.

Last but not the least, there are still other zones in this region which have played a very big role and they include the Ticinese –Navigili which stands out as an old and new residential area. This place is as old as the 20th century but the apartments have been renovated to give the place a new face. The area is fully equipped with people who sell clothes as well as designers. Other zones include Isola, Catta Studi, and Magenta among others.