35 min
50 min
M1 · M2
13.9 / km²
0
2
985
−16% vs city
Counted from OpenStreetMap and Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0)
Mixed after dark
Wikivoyage names Loreto with Centrale and Porto di Mare as areas that can be unsafe at night. It is the piazzale and the Viale Monza side that people mean; the Corso Buenos Aires side stays busy and lit.
Staying in Loreto
Loreto is the piazzale where Corso Buenos Aires ends and Viale Monza begins, plus the blocks around it. It is a traffic interchange above a metro interchange, and it is where the cheapest rooms with a central-sounding address in Milan are advertised.
The transport genuinely is good: M1 and M2 cross here, so the Duomo is seven minutes and Centrale two, and the whole length of Corso Buenos Aires - the longest shopping street in Europe - starts at your door. If price is the only variable, that combination is hard to beat.
Everything else argues against it. Wikivoyage names Loreto alongside the central station and Porto di Mare as areas that can be unsafe at night, and the piazzale itself is six lanes of traffic with no reason to linger. There is nothing to see, nothing to walk to, and the streets north-east towards Viale Monza get steadily bleaker. If the saving over Porta Venezia - fifteen minutes further down the same street and the same metro line - is small, take Porta Venezia.
What works
- M1 and M2 cross here: seven minutes to the Duomo, two to Centrale
- Cheapest rooms in Milan with a genuinely central metro connection
- Corso Buenos Aires and its shopping start at the piazzale
- Good, cheap and varied eating on the side streets off the corso
What does not
- Wikivoyage names Loreto among the areas that can be unsafe at night
- Piazzale Loreto is a six-lane road junction, not a square
- Nothing to see and nowhere pleasant to walk in the district
- Gets steadily bleaker heading north-east up Viale Monza
Certain areas near Loreto, the central railway station, and Porto di Mare (Southern end of the yellow metro line) can be unsafe at night.Since the Corso Buenos Aires is so long, you have the P.ta Venezia and Loreto stations at either side, and the Lima one more or less in the middle.