This largish site doubles as a disco and concert venue (mainly on Monday and Thursday nights). It's in a converted industrial space away from the city centre, but is still...
Via Valtellina 25This relatively new addition to Milan's classical music scene was built in Largo Mahler, which was appropriately enough named after composer Gustav Mahler, near the Navigli....
Largo Mahler 1The Blue Note club, restaurant and bar is the largest and most prestigious of the Milan jazz venues, and part of a venerable international franchise. The range of music is...
Via Borsieri 37This prestigious institution was founded in 1808 in a former Lateran convent. Many key figures in Italian music studied here - although, funnily enough, the young Giuseppe...
Via Conservatorio 12This sports and music venue was built for the 1990 World Cup, and is one of the most love-it-or-hate-it cement structures in the city. It's very hard to get to by public...
Via G di Vittorio 6This multifunctional place seems to play host to just about everything: concerts, DJ sets, exhibitions, conferences and private parties. Its music selection features...
Via Ripamonti 139This venue, whose name means 'the delicatessen of music', prides itself on having been listed by Down Beat magazine among the world's 100 best jazz clubs from 2003 to 2006....
Via Pasinetti 4This cosy club and restaurant in the Navigli area rightfully describes itself as 'the temple of Milan jazz', although, in a generous ecumenical gesture, it recently started...
Via Ascanio Sforza 49Once known as Transilvania (probably Milan's only death metal bar), this venue has recently been recast as a Swinging London-style place. A pretty weird choice, if you consider...
Via Paravia 59This pleasant wine bar hosts local and international jazz artists on Wednesday and Thursday (from 10pm in winter and from 7.30pm in summer). Entrance is free, although the...
Via Borsieri 35In 1985, Milan was hit by a freak snowfall, which destroyed the city's indoor sports arena. The 9,000-seat PalaSharp (originally called the Palatrussardi) was rapidly built to...
Via Sant'Elia 33This three-floor club hosts several concerts a month. With a top capacity of 2,000 and the ability to close off different floors depending on the size of the act, it bridges...
Corso XXII Marzo 32This iconic city-owned soccer stadium (known as San Siro throughout the football world) is shared by the city's two, fiercely competitive soccer clubs, Milan and Inter,...
Viale Piccolomini 5The world-famous opera house is still coming to terms with the return to its old home. Getting tickets for Italian opera here is extremely difficult, but if you're prepared to...
Piazza della ScalaBuilt in 1872, this theatre became a cinema after World War II. It finally reopened as a music venue in 2001, after a slow but steady, Italian-style 20-year renovation, by...
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