City Centre Hotels
Milan is a chic, prosperous destination and boasts such treasures as the Duomo cathedral, La Scala Opera House and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Its reputation dwells in its status as Italy's financial, media and fashion centre.
Milan is something of an oddity among Italian cities. It doesn’t boast the overpowering sense of antiquity you find in Rome. Nor is it as achingly beautiful as Florence or Venice. Outside of the historic centre, most of the architecture is comprised of soot-laced concrete – a legacy of the city’s industrial past. None the less, it remains a prosperous epicentre of chic and boasts such treasures as the Duomo cathedral, La Scala Opera House and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Its reputation dwells in its status as Italy’s financial, media and fashion centre. Small wonder, then, that Milanesi are reputed to greet visitors who have arrived from the south of the country with the salutation, “You’ve left Italy. Welcome to Europe.”