Milan's Women's Fashion Week changes format

After 30 years, Milan’s women’s fashion week has changed its format. Taking place from 22 to 28 September, the fashion week this year forms part of a three-week festival which begins on 8 September, and celebrates not only fashion but...

Milan’s historic shops to receive subsidies

Small historic shops in Milan are to get subsidies from the city if they stay open for two consecutive weeks in August. The city council has approved €350,000 in grants not only to encourage crafts and traditional trades in the...

Third Ikea Store Opens in Milan

Ikea has inaugurated its third store in Milan in San Giuliano, a workers’ district with 32,000 inhabitants south of the city. The others are in Corsico and Carugate. The new store is located in Via Po and has 350,000 sqm...

New map of drinking fountains in Milan

Milan city council has produced a map of the 417 drinking fountains in the city. The initiative is part of a larger project to re-launch the fountains and promote the public water supply in Milan. So far 10,000 maps on...

Milan history lecture cycle

Milan’s culture department in conjunction with the publisher Laterza and Corriere della Sera Foundation are promoting a special weekly appointment with recent Milanese history in the basilica of S. Maria delle Grazie. Every Wednesday at 21.00 from 21 April to 30...

Milan’s Via Brera to get makeover

The stretch of Via Brera in front of the historic Palazzo di Brera, seat of the art gallery and academy of fine arts, is to be pedestrianised as part of plans to promote the area as a key cultural and...

Formigoni retains Lombardy presidency

Roberto Formigoni of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà (PdL) has won a convincing victory in the regional elections on 28 and 29 March. The incumbent president of the Lombardy region took 56.10 per cent of the vote against...

New bicycle lanes for Milan

Milan city council has announced the creation of 23 km of dedicated bicycle lanes as part of efforts to reduce traffic pollution and promote environmentally friendly transport in the city. Some of the bicycle lanes are to be created from...

Milan opens centre to commercial traffic

Milan city council has lifted the ban on commercial vehicles from circulating in the central city area between the hours of 07.30 and 10.00 and 14.00 and 19.00. Under the new rules diesel trucks and vans in the Euro 4...

Marathons in Milan

The annual non-competitive Stramilano marathon has been moved to Sunday 21 March because of regional elections in Lombardy on 28 March, which was the original date for the run. The event starts at the Duomo at 09.00 and finishes at the...