As corso Venezia takes you away from the built-up areas of the city centre towards the built-up areas of its outskirts, you'll notice the green expanse of the Giardini Pubblici...

It's little wonder that Napoleon chose to live here in 1802, followed by the Austrian field marshal Count Joseph Radetzky. This recently restored neo-classical villa, formerly...

Fully renovated in 2002, the 18th-century Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini is at once a living museum exhibiting the Countess Bolognini's collection of porcelain, sculptures...

If you fancy spending an hour cruising the canals, Navigli Lombardi organises a tour that takes in the ancient washhouses of vicolo dei Lavandai and San Cristoforo, the...

The courtyard of the Palazzo della Ragione - also known as Broletto Nuovo (from brolo, an old word denoting a place where justice was administered) - is one of the few quiet,...

Although you can't enter the Palazzo Marino (it's been the city government HQ since 1861), you can enjoy its interesting history from all four sides. The architect Galeazzo...

A mansion of utter opulence, and host to a swath of world class art shows. Recent big hitters have included a Canova exhibition, a Francis Bacon portrait show and a Vivienne...

Parks are rare in Milan, and this 47-hectare (116-acre) expanse behind Castello Sforzesco is the city's biggest. Since its 1996 clean-up, it has become a firm favourite with...

A gift to the city from publisher Ulrico Hoepli, this planetarium was built in 1930 by Pietro Portaluppi in faux-classical style. Projections take place in a great domed room,...

Standing out like a sore thumb in the midst of the post-war architecture of piazza San Babila is the church that gives the square its name. The original fourth-century basilica...

One of Milan's most bizarre attractions, the San Bernardino alle Ossa's ossuary chapel manages to create a freakish sort of beauty from a bone-chilling template. The chapel...

Considered to be the final work of the neo-classical movement in Italy, this church was begun in 1839 and completed in 1847. It stands on the site of Santa Maria de' Servi,...

This imposing baroque church is the Milanese headquarters of the Jesuit order. It was designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi in 1569 as an exemplary Counter-Reformation church. Note...

Displaying an almost divine sense of irony, this charming baroque church constructed by the Minimi fathers (a particularly ascetic Franciscan order founded in 1506) lies right...