Itineraries

Plans built around what has to be booked

Every plan on this site starts from the same three constraints, because in Milan they decide everything else:

• ⛔ The Last Supper slot is fixed and unmovable. If you have one, the day it falls on is decided and the rest of the trip arranges itself around it.
• ⚠️ Museums close on Monday. Nearly all of them. A Monday goes to churches, streets and canals.
• ⚠️ August empties the city around Ferragosto, and much of what shuts does not announce it anywhere you will see.

How long you have

• One day — the centre on foot: Duomo, the roof, the Galleria, La Scala, Brera, and the Colonne at dusk.
• Two days — add the Castello, Sempione and the Navigli, and the Last Supper if you have the slot.
• Three days — add the Monumentale and Porta Nuova, and a proper museum.
• Five days — add a lake and a second city; Como and Bergamo are both under an hour.

⭐ Milan is a two-to-three day city that most people give one day to on the way somewhere else. The trips out are in Day Trips & Nearby.

⚠️ The scheduling trap

Do not put the Duomo terraces and the Last Supper on the same day. They are at opposite ends of the centre, both are timed, and a fifteen-minute slot you cannot be late for does not sit comfortably after a queue on a marble roof in the sun.