Milan Attractions

Milan "No Ashtray" Malpensa

Advantages: Clean, Loads of restaurants, comfy seats
Disadvantages: No where to smoke

...on full pelt, welcome to Milan Malpensa. The Airport that doesn\'t accommodate the needs of the smoker, (And the staff almost start laughing when you ask where the smoking area is!) brings to you the largest Duty free shop Ive ever seen in the EU, quite a few restaurants and cafe\'s and several bathrooms (Where the occasional smoker hangs out waiting to be handcuffed and pinned to the floor by the Italian Police) The airport is connected to Milan ...
...a scheduled bus service. The Milan airport system has a third international airport, Orio al Serio Airport, which serves low-cost and charter traffic. Malpensa handled over 21.7 million passengers in 2006 (over 31 million with Linate, the second airport of Milan, closer to downtown and over 36 million with Orio al Serio Airport, Milan\'s low cost airport). Malpensa is the top Italian airport in terms of international traffic, while the second busiest ...

gt5952 19.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Milan - Malpensa (MXP)

Bonola: please come in! You'll find everything!

Advantages: Satisfy curiosity
Disadvantages: Perhaps boring

Bonola is the first shopping center ‘born’ in the town of Milan, while the other previous shopping centers were all out of the borders of the town. THE QUARTER Bonola lies in a quarter of the outskirts of the town, at the north west of Milan, not far from the soccer stadium. You can easily find it, because Bonola is also a stop of the red line, the oldest line, of the underground. The center lies quite in the middle between two underground stops, ...
...main entrance of the center. Bonola exists since 1988, and I saw its development from the beginning, because I live at approximately one hundred meters from it. So, if you want, you should came with me to visit this shopping center: I’m sure it is something quite different from the shopping centers in your country. THE SHOPPING CENTER The shopping center is composed from a great number of shops and offices (200 or more), and an hypermarket called ...

shaoli2 17.10.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Bonola Shopping Center Milan, Italy

A breathtaking experience

Advantages: Art can only have advantages
Disadvantages: Don't see any

...only 50 x 70 cm., Il Cenacolo is quite big and this is one of the reasons why I felt so astonished when I walked into the small refectory room. I was about 18 when I first saw it and I really didn’t expect it like that. I had always seen it on magazines and books. Believe me, it’s not the same. Maybe because it’s something made in the 15th century, maybe because it’s situated just where Leonardo painted it, but I can assure you that once inside ...
...floor, I was there. Il Cenacolo represents the last supper, the famous scene in the Bible with Christ that sits at the table in the center and his disciples sit around him. This painting is probably the most important one among all works of art representing Christian subjects. It has always been in our imagination. Maybe some of you will remember for instance the film Jesus Christ Superstar. The Last Supper scene was taken from Il Cenacolo. All ...

totempole 22.10.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Il Cenacolo - Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper"

The Truth

Advantages: Shopping
Disadvantages: Brutal racism, Dirt, Cost,

I have lived in Milan for 3 months. I hated every minute of it. The city was the most brutal and nasty place I have been too. First -The people, a snooty toffee nosed people, with an intimidating and forbidding air to them. Not as wealthy as north Europeans, not as poor as southern Europeans, you can see where their allegiance lies. The pervasive racism of the place is brutal and wears you down, daily. Italy is NOT a diverse country, nor with am ...
...in the country, from every corner of the world. But all you see them doing, is either cleaning this or that. They are brutally stigmatised and unfairly taken advantage of. Listen, Italy, you're not making any more babies, and before you disappear altogether, give a thought to those, who will ensure you're well fed and taken of in the future. What I liked-the shopping, though it is very concentrated in a small zone in the centre of town. Though you ...

samhu 02.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Milan - Linate (LIN)

Family experience

Advantages: Very modern facilities for kids
Disadvantages: Seems very out-of-date and forgotten compared to other places in Milan

We visited the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in 2007. We had a job finding it as many locals we asked hadn't heard of it or didn't know where it was, and even one road away we saw no indications that it existed at all. We eventually found it (via San Vittore 21, about 5 minutes walk from S. Ambrogio station on M2, the green line). Entry cost €8 each which, after looking around, we thought was a bit excessive. ...
...the museum modern and interactive as the labs for schoolchildren, maybe we will go back. You get a little map of the museum with contact details on the back (would have been helpful in finding the place). It's probably a good idea if you're planning a visit to have a look on their website to get the map and travel directions first. Also note that the whole museum is closed on Mondays. The building itself is quite nice. It used to be a monastery and ...

CG1anon 27.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan