The Milan map shows the detailed map and a large map of Milan. This map of Milan will allow you to orient yourself in Milan in Lombardy - Italy. The Milan map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.

Milan is set in the heart of the Po Basin of northern Italy, halfway across the immense plain spreading between the Ticino and Adda rivers as you can see in Milan map. The site is 400 feet (122 metres) above sea level. To the north lies the great sweep of the southern flank of the Alps. Between this semicircle of mountains and the course traced by the Po River to the south, there lies a zone that is arid toward the north but swampy near the Po, where it turns into an expanse of marshy groves and rice fields. It is at the line of demarcation between these two areas, which are strongly differentiated, that Milan has risen, although now only swamplands mark the site of the ancient city.

Milan population saw a rapid increase after World War II (1939–45); it grew by roughly 400,000 in the 15 years after 1950. The increase was due mainly to the flood of immigrants from the impoverished Italian south and northeast seeking improved conditions in the factories of the industrial north. This mass internal migration peaked during the years of the “economic miracle” (1958–63), when thousands of immigrants arrived daily at Milan Central Station as its mentioned in Milan map. Luchino Visconti encapsulated the drama of this moment in his classic film Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960; Rocco and His Brothers).

For the first half of the 20th century, the mechanical industries dominated the Milanese economy. The production of automobiles (such as those by Alfa Romeo), motorcycles and motor scooters (notably the Lambretta brand), airplanes, major electric appliances, railroad materials, and other metalworking employed almost half the workforce (see Milan map). Other significant production included the massive rubber plant of the Pirelli company, which remains important today. Chemical production was of considerable importance at one time but has now largely moved away from the city.

The map of downtown Milan shows the historical center of Milan. This downtown map of Milan will allow you to easily plan your visit in the center of Milan in Lombardy - Italy. The Milan downtown map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.

Downtown Milan is where you will be close to the major attractions of the Duomo, the beautiful old shopping arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and the fascinating museum and church at Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore as you can see in Milan downtown map. Besides history, the city centre offers fantastic restaurants with delicious cuisine from all over Italy, as well as plenty of high class designer shopping. At night, the city comes alive with bars and nightclubs. Getting around is easy with trams, metros and buses. In addition to many of Milan’s key monuments and buildings, you will find plenty of hotels to choose from, depending on your comfort, amenities and pricing requirements. If you want some retail therapy, you will be delighted with the shopping opportunities in this glitzy city. You will also get to benefit from an excellent choice of places to eat out or to sample the excitement of Milan nightlife.

Experience the heady atmosphere, bright lights and vibrant buzz of Milan, the downtown is definitely the place to stay. This is the very heart of this unique city and will put you within easy reach of the main sights as well as an array of entertainment and visitor facilities. This part of Milan is easy to get around both on foot and via public transport, so exploring all that Milan has to offer will never be an issue. The city centre features a diversity of attractions from the modern to the richly historic and cultural as its mentioned in Milan downtown map, offering the best of all worlds.

In downtown Milan, you are within easy reach of art galleries, museums and elaborate palaces, including the Palazzo Bagatti-Valsecchi and the Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna as you can see in Milan downtown map. Art lovers should pay a visit to the Pinacoteca di Brera, in the Palazzo Brera, home to one of the most important art collections in the country. You can also pay a visit to the historic fortress of Castello Sforzeco, which dates back to the 1360s. If you want to explore both history and culture, you will love the famous Teatroalla Scala Opera House, which plays host to some of the most stunning operatic performances in the world, as well as an opera museum and an academy of performing arts. Visitors interested in history, architecture and the arts should also visit Santa Maria delle Grazie, which was built in the 1460s and is now home to the famous painting ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Milan, Italian Milano, city, capital of Milano province (provincia) and of the region (regione) of Lombardy (Lombardia), northern Italy as you can see in Milan Lombardy - Italy map. It is the leading financial centre and the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial city of Italy. The fact that Milan is at a distance from much of the rest of Italy, that it is peripheral in a geographic sense, does not explain its position of “second city,” a position it has always vainly fought. Indeed, some of the greatest European capitals are peripheral in this sense.

Yet although Rome remains the political capital of Italy, Milan has long been known as its “moral capital.” When the Milanese assert that their city is the moral capital, they not only express the ancient regionalism typical of all Italy and known as campanilismo (a reference to the church bell of each city), but they also refer to the city quality and values, historical as well as contemporary as its mentioned in Milan Lombardy - Italy map. Since the late 1970s, as most traditional industries have either closed down completely or relocated to nonurban locations, Milan has become Italy first and most successful “postindustrial” city, with a concentration of lucrative service industries, such as advertising and wholesale and retail trade, particularly those related to the fashion industry.

Milan, the most important economic centre of Italy, owes this fact partly to its geographical position, which always has given it advantages as a market centre; indeed, the most important wholesale markets of Italy are still in Milan. The city is located at a nexus of the traffic routes of the Po River valley and lies on the borderline between the advanced agriculture of the fertile irrigated plains of the south and the limited agriculture of the north as its shown in Milan Lombardy - Italy map. Milan also sits on the main route connecting Italy with the rest of Europe. Industrial development in the 20th century further stimulated commercial activity in the city.

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Milan city is recognized as a major world fashion and design capital, and it has thus been ranked by GaWC as an Alpha world city in 2010, as well as the 42nd most important global city as you can see in Milan on world map. Thanks to its important museums, theatres and landmarks (including Santa Maria delle Grazie, decorated with Leonardo da Vinci paintings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site) Milan attracts 2 million annual visitors. It hosts numerous cultural institutions and universities, including Bocconi University, which ranks 5th among European Business Schools. The city is also well known for several international events and fairs, including Milan Fashion Week and the Milan Furniture Fair, the largest of its kind in the world, and will host the 2015 Universal Exposition. The city is also home to two renowned football teams, A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano.

In the 1980s, as several fashion firms based in the city became internationally successful (such as Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana), Milan started to be recognized as one of the world fashion capitals as its shown in Milan on world map. The traditionally affordable and practical, yet stylish and chic attire produced by the city stylists made it a serious global competitor, threatening Paris century-long status as the world capital of haute couture. Also the largest and most important example of Gothic architecture in Italy, the Duomo, Milan Cathedral, is the fourth largest cathedral in the world after St. Peter Basilica in Rome, the Cathedral of Seville and a new cathedral in the Ivory Coast. Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world largest collection of marble statues with the widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina (the little Madonna), that became one of the symbols of the city.

On addition to a unique cuisine, Milan has several world-renowned restaurants and cafés. Most of the more refined and upper-class restaurants are found in the historic centre, while the more traditional and popular ones are mainly located in the Brera and Navigli districts. Today, there is also a Nobu Japanese restaurant in Milan, which is located in Armani World in Via Manzoni and is regarded as being one of the trendiest restaurants in the city. The world famous Monza Formula One circuit is located near the city, inside a wide park. It is one of the world oldest car racing circuits. Established in 1902, has been ranked among the top 20 best business schools in the world by The Wall Street Journal international rankings, especially thanks to its M.B.A. program, which in 2007 placed it no. 17 in the world in terms of graduate recruitment preference by major multinational companies as its mentioned in Milan on world map. Forbes has ranked Bocconi no.1 worldwide in the specific category Value for Money. In May 2008, Bocconi overtook several traditionally top global business schools in the Financial Times Executive education ranking, reaching no. 5 in Europe and no. 15 in the world.