# Is Loreto a Good Area to Stay in Milan? Map & Verdict Verdict: Avoid. Cheap for a reason. Read the cons first. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/loreto Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md 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. Facts: 35 min walk to the Duomo; 50 min to the airport; price €; best for budget, solo travellers; lines M1, M2. Safety: 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. 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 Hotels in Loreto: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DPiazzale%2520Loreto%252C%2520Milan%26latitude%3D45.49367911818182%26longitude%3D9.220037872727273%26nflt%3Ddistance%253D1000%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. - [Brera](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/brera): Recommended. 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. - [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. - [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.