Milan Travel Guide

 Milan is a place of contrast and culture, poverty and incredible wealth and so you would think that it is just like any other major City but then if you did that you would be wrong - Milan is different.

Milan is the second largest City in Italy and the richest, and without any shadow of a doubt the home of international fashion. Which makes Milan a bustling busy place, but not in a bad way, Milan is fashionable, fun, fast and furious.

And it gets better, Milan is also achingly Milan sightseeing tickets offers attractive in fact some say that Milan is a cross between sublime Venice and artistic Rome but with one key difference, Milan is not dependent upon tourism for its income.

Milan is the home of most of Italy's major industries and the Italian Stock exchange and so tourists feel less pressured strolling the streets and there are fewer tacky tourist attractions, because the City doesn't depend upon your Dollar, Pound or Yen to survive and neither does its people.

So what is there to see in a place that isn't actually geared to fleece the tourist at every turn you ask yourself? Well the answer is that there is so very much to see and here is just a small taste.

The peerless La Scala Opera House, the incredibly elaborate Cathedral, the Castello Sforzesco and the wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci the Last Supper, which even though it was bombed in the second world war is still in one piece.

And of course Milan is probably more famous for fashion than anything else. So any brand that is a brand calls Milano their home and these brands include Gucci, Versace, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada.

Milan is where you can not only catch a glimpse of these elegant fashion houses' corporate headquarters, in the wild so to speak and gawp at their pencil thin employees, you can do so much more!

You can go shopping in the fashion houses' stores, where you will find the very latest creations at very creative prices, but if your budget won't run to more than three noughts for a scarf well there is hope for you yet. Because in the trés chic Quadrilatero d'Oro, or Golden Square to us mere mortals, you will find last year's label bargains, designer label seconds and better still emerging brands who haven't yet quite mastered the art of adding so many naughts to their price tags.