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Admiral Hotel

ClassHotel 4 star

Area Fiera Milano City

HotelThe Admiral Hotel was created in 1972 by the carburetor genius: cav. Luigi Dell'Orto...

Teatro Litta

Located in the historical centre of Milan, in the very core of the Roman area, the aristocratic Arese-Litta theatre has its premises in a wing of the homonym aristocratic mansion. Originally built to entertain the Arese-Litta family and its guests, the illustrious work of Lombard Baroque commissioned by Bartolemeo Arese is currently the oldest operating theatre of the city. Rapidly rose to success, the theatre is by now well-established: alongside seasons of performances and concerts it also hosts many cultural events.

Public Gardens

Placed at the end of via Manzoni, the Public Gardens represent Milan's favourite family park. There you will see swans, swings, ponies, and the craggy landscaping lacking in the rest of the city. You will also find a Planetarium, a natural-history Museum, and a charming 1960s-style chalet bar, the Bar Bianco, run by the city's dairy cooperative, Centrale del Latte di Milano. Here generous filled rolls and salads, milkshakes, and Mr Whippy-style ice creams will take the edge off any appetite.

Villa Reale Gardens

Heading for via Palestro, just behind the imposing neoclassical palace of Villa Reale, you will find the so called Gardens of Villa Reale. Landscaped in the English style of the late 18th Century, in the gardens you will admire sweeping lawns (popular for wedding photos) and also a small lake complete with Doric temple.

Fiera Milan City

Established in 1920 along the Spanish bastions of Porta Venezia, it was originally held by a group of pioneers in a stretch of about a hundred booths. Three years later it was transferred to the present exhibition area, and attracted an increasing interest in the mid-war period. Closed for three years during World War II, since 1946 its activity has been in constant growth. It has become a symbol of Milan and of its productivity. With an exhibition complex of 600 thousand square metres, it is now the site of a series of shows and events running all year round.
Most part of the main trade shows take now place in the brand new complex out of the town in Rho - Pero.

Navigli

Legitimate pride of the Lombards and regulators of the water network of Milan , the Navigli or waterways are the result of widespread works of canalisation, irrigation and exploitation of all the territorial waters. Started by the monks of the larger medieval orders (Benedectines, Cistercians, Umiliati), and intensified under the Visconti' s and the Sforza's rulers, the Navigli were improved and perfected under the Spanish and Austrian rulers. The water was then used for defending the town and also for transferring the merchandise arriving on the docks. The only safe thoroughfares of the time, the Navigli were also used by diplomats, master craftsmen and women to safely leave the city. Many Milanese aristocrats chose to build their sumptuous villas in this area transforming it in the so-called Riviera di Milano. They are:

All of them, after furrowing through the Padana plains, converge into Milano and connect the city to the Adda, the Ticino and the Po rivers. Even Leonardo applied his dock system to the Navigli, consisting of great basins necessary to ensure a perfect flow of the waters from the rivers to their destination. Nowadays almost all the Navigli have been covered over. Only the Naviglio Grande, the Naviglio Pavese and part of the Darsena survive in a romantic and bohemian neighborhood.
Metro: Porta Genova.

Cimitero Monumentale

The huge Cimitero Monumentale hosts several family mausoleums not so dissimilar from the sumptuous dwellings of the rich Milanese bourgeoisie resting there. Some of them, such as the Civico Mausoleo Palanti, used as an air-raid shelter during World War II, or others works of art -sculptors such as Arturo Martini, Giacomo Manz and Lucio Fontana, are really beautiful. One of the most moving tombs is the temple erected in honour of to composer Arturo Toscanini's infant son, decorated with moving scenes of the child.
Open 8.30am-5pm Tues-Sat, 8.30am-1pm Sun, closed Mon.

Tram rides

Pick a tram, any tram: there are still dozen of lines to choose from. If you're heading towards the city centre the better option will probably be the tram number 1, running along via Settembrini before cutting through the centro storico along via Manzoni, through piazza Cordusio, and back up towards piazza Cairoli and the Castello Sforzesco. This line still uses the original, single-coach orange trams, with lovely wooden seats and fittings. 75-minute or 24-hour tickets, both valid on the whole ATM bus, tram and metro network, should be purchased before boarding and stamped in the so-called obliteratrice as soon as you get in.