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Milan Metro · 5 lines · 125 stations

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Stations worth a stop

  • M1

    Conciliazione sits at the western end of Corso Magenta, a street of old palazzi and churches. The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, whose former refectory holds Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, is about ten minutes' walk east along the same street.

  • M1M2

    Cadorna connects lines M1 and M2 with Milano Cadorna, the terminus of the Ferrovienord regional railway, from which the Malpensa Express runs to Malpensa Airport. The Castello Sforzesco is a short walk to the northeast.

  • M1

    Cairoli faces the main gate of the Castello Sforzesco, the brick fortress of the Visconti and Sforza dukes that now holds several civic museums. Behind the castle the large Parco Sempione stretches towards the Arco della Pace.

  • M1

    Cordusio lies under a curved square lined with large former bank and insurance buildings from around 1900. The pedestrian Via Dante runs from here straight to the Castello Sforzesco, and the Duomo is a few minutes' walk to the east.

  • M1M3

    Duomo opens directly onto Piazza del Duomo, in front of the Gothic cathedral that took several centuries to complete. On the north side of the square the glass-roofed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II leads through to Piazza della Scala and the opera house, and Palazzo Reale stands on the south side.

  • M1M4

    San Babila is an interchange between M1 and M4 at the eastern end of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, a pedestrian shopping street that leads to the Duomo in about five minutes. The fashion streets of Via Montenapoleone and Via della Spiga begin just to the north.

  • M1

    Palestro lies between the public gardens of Giardini Indro Montanelli and Villa Reale, an eighteenth-century residence that now houses the Galleria d'Arte Moderna. The contemporary art space PAC stands next to the villa on Via Palestro.

  • M1

    Porta Venezia marks the start of Corso Buenos Aires, one of the longest shopping streets in the city, and the surrounding blocks keep many early twentieth-century Liberty-style buildings. The Museo di Storia Naturale is inside the Giardini Indro Montanelli, a few minutes to the south.

  • M1

    Sesto 1° Maggio FS is the northern terminus of M1 in Sesto San Giovanni, a town that grew in the twentieth century around large steel and engineering works. The station connects with Sesto San Giovanni railway station and with bus routes to the northern suburbs.

  • M1

    Rho Fieramilano is the northwestern terminus of M1, connected to the Fiera Milano exhibition centre where the city's large trade fairs are held. The adjoining Rho Fiera railway station is served by regional and some high-speed trains.

  • M2

    Porta Genova is the station for the Navigli, where the Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese canals meet at the Darsena basin and the banks are lined with bars and restaurants. The former industrial streets around Via Tortona, just west of the station, now hold design studios and showrooms.

  • M2M4

    Sant'Ambrogio connects M2 and M4 beside the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, founded in the fourth century by the city's patron saint and rebuilt in Romanesque form. The Università Cattolica occupies the cloisters next door, and the national science and technology museum is a short walk west.

  • M2

    Lanza is the nearest station to the Brera district, an area of narrow streets with galleries and cafés around the Pinacoteca di Brera art museum. The Piccolo Teatro Strehler, one of the city's principal theatres, stands right beside the station.

  • M2M5

    Garibaldi joins M2 and M5 with Porta Garibaldi railway station at the edge of the Porta Nuova business district. Piazza Gae Aulenti with the UniCredit Tower is a short walk away, as are the two residential towers of the Bosco Verticale planted with trees on their balconies.

  • M2M3

    Centrale links lines M2 and M3 with Milano Centrale, the city's main railway station, whose monumental stone building opened in 1931. Across Piazza Duca d'Aosta rises the Pirelli Tower, a slender office skyscraper designed by Gio Ponti.

  • M2

    Piola is the station for Città Studi, the university quarter where the main campus of the Politecnico di Milano surrounds Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, about five minutes' walk away. Many faculties of the University of Milan are also located in the same area.

  • M2

    Lambrate connects the M2 line with Milano Lambrate railway station on the eastern side of the city, served by regional and some long-distance trains. The university quarter of Città Studi lies a short distance to the southwest.

  • M2

    Assago Milanofiori Forum is the terminus of the southern M2 branch, outside the city boundary in Assago. It serves the Forum, an indoor arena used for concerts and basketball, and the Milanofiori office and shopping area.

  • M3

    Repubblica sits beneath Piazza della Repubblica, a wide square of hotels and offices between Milano Centrale and the old city. The station also connects to the Passante suburban rail tunnel, and the towers of Porta Nuova are within walking distance to the west.

  • M3

    Montenapoleone serves the Quadrilatero della Moda, the block of streets around Via Montenapoleone and Via della Spiga where many fashion houses have their shops. The Museo Poldi Pezzoli, a private collection shown in its owner's former home, is on nearby Via Manzoni.

  • M3

    Lodi TIBB is the closest M3 station to the Fondazione Prada, an art centre set in a converted early twentieth-century distillery with new buildings added by OMA. The station's name comes from Piazzale Lodi and a former electrical engineering works nearby.

  • M3

    Rogoredo links the M3 line with Milano Rogoredo railway station, where high-speed and regional trains to the south and east stop. The surrounding Santa Giulia area in the southeast of the city is a newer residential and office district.

  • M4

    Linate Aeroporto is the eastern terminus of M4, located at Milan Linate, the city airport used mainly for domestic and European flights. The line runs from here through the eastern districts to San Babila in the centre and on to San Cristoforo.

  • M4

    Sforza-Policlinico is an M4 station next to the Ca' Granda, the fifteenth-century hospital built for Francesco Sforza that is now the main seat of the University of Milan. The Policlinico hospital continues the site's medical role, and the Duomo is about ten minutes' walk to the northwest.

  • M4

    Vetra lies on the M4 line beside the Parco delle Basiliche, a green space between two old churches. To the north stand the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore and the row of Roman columns in front of it, and to the south the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio.

  • M5

    Bicocca serves a district built on the site of former Pirelli factories, now home to the University of Milano-Bicocca and modern office blocks. The Teatro degli Arcimboldi and the contemporary art space Pirelli HangarBicocca are in the same area.

  • M5

    Isola serves a former working-class neighbourhood that was long cut off from the centre by railway lines and now has small restaurants, workshops and galleries. The Bosco Verticale and the Biblioteca degli Alberi park lie just to the south.

  • M5

    Monumentale is named after the Cimitero Monumentale, a nineteenth-century cemetery whose family tombs and chapels form a large open-air collection of sculpture. Via Paolo Sarpi, the main street of Milan's Chinatown, begins a few minutes to the southwest.

  • M5

    Tre Torri sits in the middle of CityLife, built on the former trade fair grounds, where three office towers by Arata Isozaki, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind stand together. A shopping arcade sits at the foot of the towers, and a public park extends around the district.

  • M5

    San Siro Stadio is the western terminus of M5, beside the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, the football ground shared by AC Milan and Inter. The San Siro horse-racing tracks are close by, and the station is busiest on match and concert days.

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