572km (355 miles) NW of Rome, 140km (87 miles) NE of Turin, 142km (88 miles) N of Genoa
Southern Italians, perhaps resentful of the north's hard-earned prosperity, sometimes declare that the Milanese are like the nearby no-nonsense Swiss. With two million inhabitants, Milan (Milano) is Italy's most dynamic city. Milan is Italy's window on Europe, its ...