In Milan, we enjoy tree-lined streets, a charming historic downtown, beautiful parks, safe neighborhoods and great schools. These are just the first impressions of what makes the City of Milan the best city for anyone looking for a great community to buy a home, open a business, raise a family and pursue a wonderful small town life experience. For those who live, work and own businesses in Milan, they most often say that it is the people here that make the experience so special. In the City of Milan, everyone is your neighbor, and we are proud of our welcoming tradition.
In Milan, you'll find shops, restaurants, and services. We have affordable housing, and many wonderful community events, including parades, car shows, movies & concerts in the park and an extremely energetic and vital Senior Community Center. Moreover, Milan boasts 200 acres of beautifully maintained parks to wander through and play.
The City of Milan is a short drive from world-renowned cultural, academic, and sports attractions in Ann Arbor as well as both Detroit and Toledo. The City of Milan was named the “unsung” jewel of Washtenaw County by the Ann Arbor News. We provide big city services with a hometown atmosphere.
Ten must-see attractions in Milan:
Despite being a true cultural mecca—with plenty of museums, restaurants, and things to do—as well as the hub of Italy’s booming fashion industry, Milan is a city that keeps its cards close to its chest. Attractions in Milan don’t necessarily dazzle, aside from a few splashy signatures, like the Duomo, Castello Sforzesco, and the new spire-topped UniCredit skyscraper.
1. Duomo di Milano:
A vision in pink Candoglia marble, Milan's extravagant Gothic cathedral, 600 years in the making, aptly reflects the city's creativity and ambition. Its pearly white facade, adorned with 135 spires and 3400 statues rises like the filigree of a fairy-tale tiara, wowing the crowds with its extravagant detail. The interior is no less impressive, punctuated by the largest stained-glass windows in Christendom, while in the crypt saintly Carlo Borromeo is interred in a rock-crystal casket.
2. Cimitero Monumentale:
Milan’s enormous Cimitero Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery in English) is extremely famous for its numerous beautifully decorated tombs. The mausoleums are so extravagant and original that it is considered by many as an open-air museum with genuine “works of art” from the nineteenth century until the present day. The Cimitero was founded in 1866 to unify several small and unsanitary cemeteries distributed in Milan.
3. Pinacoteca di Brera:
The Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery) houses one of the main art collections of Renaissance art in Italy with over 500 works dating from the 14th- 20th century. Opened to the public in 1809, it is situated in a beautiful 17th-century building alongside the Accademia di Belli Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) in the Palazzo di Brera.Amongst the collection are masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Mantegna, Bellini, Caravaggio, Tintoretto, and Veronese. There is a small section on modern art which includes paintings by Modigliani, De Chirico, and Carrà.
4. Porta Nuova:
Porta Nuova is one of the largest urban regeneration projects all over Europe. It covers an overall area of more than 300,000 square meters and reconnects three different parts of the city as a natural development of the existing neighborhoods. The whole district has been designed through three masterplan schemes for each of the individual projects Garibaldi, Varesine, and Isola, respectively by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, and Boeri Studio. The architecture of the single buildings has been designed by architects selected through international competitions.
5. Hangar Bicocca:
HangarBicocca is a space for contemporary art, located in an area of Milan which used to be dominated by the Pirelli factories. With the completion of the Bicocca Project in 2005, this area has become increasingly urbanised with shops, houses as well as space for artistic initiatives. The prominent feature of HangarBicocca is the permanent installation The Seven Heavenly Palaces by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, made specifically for the site. It consists of seven towers made of reinforced concrete, each weighing 90 tonnes and varying in height between 14 and 18 meters. In addition to the permanent installations, space also regularly hosts temporary exhibitions.
6. Triennale di Milano:
The Triennale di Milano is a center for contemporary art, architecture, and design and has a reputation for being at the forefront on all of these disciplines. Rather than being a museum in the classical sense – one with a fixed collection – it is a space with continuously changing exhibitions. In recent years the Triennale has displayed retrospective exhibitions on major artists like Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein and designer brands like Giorgio Armani and Louis Vuitton. The building which houses the Triennale is located at the edge of the Parco Sempione and was built in 1933 by Giovanni Muzio. Its purpose was to host the international exhibition on decorative arts, industrial arts, and modern architecture, held every 3 years in Milan.
7. Armani Silos:
Silos is Giorgio Armani’s own museum, dedicated to his fashion designs of the last 40 years, displaying around 600 of his works.
The museum is located in the fashionable Tortona area in Milan, in a renovated building that was constructed in 1950 as a granary for the Nestlé company. A total of 4500 square meters is spread out over 4 floors, holding next to exhibition spaces, also a café, a gift shop, and a digital archive. The digital archive can be accessed through workstations and holds a collection of photos, sketches, technical drawings, and illustrations.
8. Castello Sforzesco and Parco Sempione:
Parco Sempione a is green lung in the center of Milan - is also strategic for planning a city visit. It constitutes a gateway to the center, through the Castello, and to other places of interest that are well worth visiting: from the Arena Civica to the Arco della Pace, the Triennale, and the Torre Branca. It is also an advantageous starting point for a stroll through Chinatown. Grandiose symbol of Sforza’s Milan, the Castello is the city’s most important defensive monument. The first nucleus, built by Galeazzo II Visconti between 1358 and 1368, was a defensive fortification of the medieval Porta Giovia. Extended between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it was rebuilt with a quadrangular shape and four towers at the behest of Francesco Sforza (1450-66).
9. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II:
The Galleria, a place of transit for busy managers or a stop for enchanted and curious tourists, expresses the various faces of the city through its many facets. As soon as it was finished, the Galleria became immediately famous for its large size, extraordinary for the time and sign of a new era. The 20th century is synonymous with modernity and progress. It’s an intricate and complex historical period that saw technical accelerations, engineering-industrial products, and, in general, the rise of the work of the human genius.
10. Maurizio Cattelan’s L.O.V.E sculpture:
Nothing is sacred to Maurizio Cattelan, the art world’s resident jokester who has been variously amusing and horrifying viewers since the early 1990s. For his 2012 retrospective at the Guggenheim, “All,” Cattelan hung the full range of his iconoclastic sculptures from the center of the museum’s sanctified rotunda—including waxworks of a miniature Hitler, Pope John Paul II struck down by lightning, JFK in a coffin, and the artist himself hung by his neck, accompanied by several of his trademark taxidermies, including an ostrich burying its head, a squirrel who’s just committed suicide, and Novecento, the dangling horse that is perhaps his most career-defining work. “My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible,” he says. “There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.” A prolific curator and writer outside of his artistic practice, Cattelan is seen by many as one of Duchamp’s greatest contemporary heirs, enacting morbidly humorous transformations on objects and history alike.
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