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.