Chinatown (Via Paolo Sarpi)
Via Paolo Sarpi, Porta Volta-Fiera-Gallaratese-Quarto Oggiaro, Milan, 20154, Italy
Milan's Chinatown is the oldest and most established Chinese community in Italy — centred on the pedestrianised Via Paolo Sarpi between Porta Volta and Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale, where Chinese-Milanese families (many descended from immigrants who arrived from Wenzhou in the 1920s) have created a neighbourhood that blends Italian and Chinese commercial culture with a fluency that only a century of coexistence can produce.
Fondazione Prada
Largo Isarco 2, 20139 Milan
Fondazione Prada is one of the most ambitious contemporary art institutions in Europe — a 19,000-square-metre campus designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA that combines seven existing industrial buildings (a former gin distillery from the 1910s) with three new structures clad in aluminium foam, mirror-finish gold leaf, and white concrete.
Navigli District
Alzaia Naviglio Grande, Porta Genova-Giambellino-Lorenteggio, Milan, 20144, Italy
The Navigli is Milan's canal district — a neighbourhood of two surviving canals (Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese) lined with bars, restaurants, vintage shops, and artist studios that becomes the city's aperitivo headquarters every evening.
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