# Is Brera a Good Area to Stay in Milan? Map & Verdict Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/brera Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md Ten minutes north of the Duomo, cobbled and low-rise, with the Pinacoteca and the best-looking streets in Milan. It is also the district that fills up loudest on a Friday. Facts: 10 min walk to the Duomo; 55 min to the airport; price €€€€; best for couples, sights, food; lines M1, M2, M3. Brera is the small grid between La Scala and the Moscova, and it looks like the Milan people expect before they arrive: narrow streets, shuttered palazzi, art shops and the Pinacoteca di Brera, which holds one of the two or three best painting collections in Italy. The Duomo is a ten-minute walk south and the Castello five minutes west. It is a good district to sleep in as well as to walk through, which is not true of everywhere central. Lanza and Moscova on M2 and Turati on M3 are inside it, the streets are residential above the ground floor, and the food is aimed at people who live here as much as at visitors - though the two are not always easy to tell apart on Via Fiori Chiari. The catch is the price and the evenings. Rooms cost what Duomo rooms cost, hotels are small and book out early, and the bar streets in the middle of the district are one of the two places Milan's own nightlife guidance names as overcrowded. If you want Brera's mornings without its Fridays, book on the northern side towards Moscova rather than around Via Brera itself. What works: - Ten minutes on foot to the Duomo and five to the Castello Sforzesco - The Pinacoteca di Brera is one of the best collections in Italy - M2 at Lanza and Moscova, M3 at Turati, all inside the district - Residential above street level, so mornings are quiet and ordinary What does not: - Priced with the Duomo, without the Duomo's choice of hotels - Via Brera and Via Fiori Chiari are packed and loud from Thursday to Saturday - Hotels are small, so late booking usually means no availability at all - Aperitivo on the main streets is tourist-priced for what arrives Hotels in Brera: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D5229%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1 ## Other districts in Milan - [Duomo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/duomo): Recommended. The whole core inside the old canal ring, not just the cathedral square: the Castello, Sant'Ambrogio and the Colonne di San Lorenzo are all this district. You pay Milan's highest rates and walk to everything. - [Magenta & San Vittore](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/magenta-san-vittore): Recommended. Corso Magenta and Sant'Ambrogio, ten minutes west of the Duomo. The Last Supper is in it, and it is the quietest central district in Milan. - [Sarpi & Chinatown](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/sarpi): Mixed. Milan's Chinatown, on a pedestrianised Via Paolo Sarpi fifteen minutes north-west of the Duomo. The best cheap eating in the city, and no sights at all. - [Pagano](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/pagano): Mixed. Corso Vercelli's shopping street and the wealthy blocks behind it, one metro stop past Magenta. Safe, dull, and cheaper than it looks. - [Ticinese](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/ticinese): Recommended. The strip running south from the Colonne di San Lorenzo to the Darsena. Close enough to walk to the Duomo in under twenty minutes, close enough to the canals to skip the taxi home. - [Navigli](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/navigli): Mixed. Two canals lined with bars, and the best evening in Milan if you are out in it rather than asleep above it. Half an hour on foot from the Duomo and short of daytime reasons to be here. - [Guastalla & Porta Vittoria](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/guastalla): Recommended. The quiet blocks south-east of the Duomo: the Besana rotunda, the botanical garden and the courthouse. Ten minutes in, and nothing loud in it. - [Porta Romana](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/porta-romana): Recommended. The old Roman gate and the streets behind it, twenty minutes south-east of the Duomo. Where Milanese eat, with Fondazione Prada at the far end. - [Porta Venezia & Corso Buenos Aires](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/porta-venezia): Recommended. A shopping avenue with three metro lines under it and Milan's best value rooms along it. Book the Porta Venezia end; the discount at the Loreto end is the discount for a reason. - [Isola](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/isola): Recommended. A former working-class pocket behind the tracks, now the district under the Bosco Verticale. Good food, real evenings, and a thirty-five-minute walk from anything historic. - [Centrale](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/centrale): Mixed. Milan's densest block of cheap hotels, wrapped around the country's second-busiest station. Two metro lines, every train, and the one part of the centre that people are warned about after dark. - [Loreto](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/loreto): Avoid. The cheap end of Corso Buenos Aires, on an M1/M2 interchange. Wikivoyage names it among the areas that can be unsafe at night, and the rooms are priced accordingly. - [San Siro](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/san-siro): Avoid. Cheap rooms 5 km west of the centre, next to a stadium you will visit once and a racecourse you will not. One metro line, and an hour and a quarter on foot to the Duomo.