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Our picks

Eating and drinking in Milan

FT readers: your favourite places to eat and drink in Milan

Traditional local fare, the tastiest pizza in town and gorgeous gelato and aperitivi: the city’s best restaurants and bars, as selected by you

Shopping in Milan

Grazie mille! Where to buy great festive gifts in Milan

An insider guide to one of Europe’s best cities for Christmas shopping

Things to do in Milan

Hidden depths: a guide to Milan’s most inventive interiors

Step into spaces where some of Italy’s greatest architects and designers — as well as Wes Anderson — let their imagination run wild

Things to do in Milan

La Double J founder JJ Martin’s perfect day in Milan

From morning meditation to an evening train to Lake Como, via museums, markets, eateries and the city’s answer to the Sistine Chapel

Interiors

The history of the folding screen unfolds in a Milan exhibition

The show celebrates these decorative objects as both artwork and furniture, from traditional Chinese models to versions by Picasso and Hockney

Fitness in Milan

Running in Milan: five great routes

From beloved landmarks to showstopping starchitecture via lush green spaces and a main waterway, these runs reveal everything that gives the city its grande brio

Things to do in Milan

Brave new world: an architecture tour of central Milan

The city has long been a byword for forward-thinking building, from the Neoclassical glories of the world’s first shopping mall to Modernist masterpieces galore

Things to do in Milan

My ideal day in Milan: Gildo Zegna

The chair and CEO of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group loves to lose himself in the city’s abundance of artistic and historic treasures, as well as its urban oases

Things to do in Milan

Milan’s cinematic style

A muse to the greats of Italian film’s Golden Age, this urban beauty continues to inspire cineastes

Eating and drinking in Milan

Power dining: the restaurants where deals are made in Milan

The lowdown on the top tables in the Italian finance and fashion capital

Milan travel

Portrait Milano: a secret piazza is reborn as Ferragamo’s latest hotel

After a decade of restoration, a 16th-century seminary in the heart of Milan’s fashion district has been opened to the public for the first time

Milan travel

The best of Milan, with Carla Sozzani

The founder of the cult store 10 Corso Como on the city she has loved and lived in for more than 60 years

Shopping in Milan

Cult Shop: the plant matchmakers of Milan

Wild Milano will find the perfect houseplant for you

Things to do in Milan

Matthew Williams’ insider guide to Milan

The co‑founder of fashion brand Alyx shares his favourite spots in the Italian city

Eating and drinking in Milan

Five Milan restaurants where style is on the menu

Innovative design is a vital ingredient at these dining establishments

Things to do in Milan

Antonio Citterio’s perfect weekend in Milan

The architect and industrial designer explores the city’s paintings, porticos and botanical gardens and Brera backstreets

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Your city secrets

Eating and drinking in Milan
FT readers: your favourite bars in Milan

Top spots for an aperitivo, from a rooftop eyrie to a secret speakeasy and a flower shop that moonlights as a watering hole. Cin cin!

Things to do in Milan
FT readers: your Milan highlights

From the roof of the Duomo to a canalside club, taking in gorgeous villas and green spaces, here are some of your favourite places to hang in the city

Where is your favourite place in Milan?

Where is your favourite place in Milan?

Tell us all about it and help us shape our new FT Globetrotter guide

Talking points

  1. Design

    The duo turning old Milan into a snapshot of contemporary design

    From a former panettone factory to a disused slaughterhouse — Alcova’s vision breathes new life into old spaces

  2. Design

    Milan’s taste for zero-waste

    Food scraps, soapy water, every drop of golden sun – the city is on a mission to use it all to fuel its new circular economy

  3. Fashion shows

    As Milan Fashion Week looks inwards, Bottega Veneta strides ahead

    A slick showing at Ferragamo and a surprisingly good debut from Bally’s Simone Bellotti were among the week’s highlights

  4. Jewellery

    Fashion and design kudos makes Milan a magnet for jewellers

    Luxury brands are not only expanding their retail presence in the city but are also drawing on the region’s artisanal traditions

  5. Visual Arts

    James Lee Byars, Milan — outsize ambitions in gold and glass

    The Pirelli HangarBicocca’s show captures the spirit of an artist who wanted to send a rocket to Mars in 1969

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