# Staying in Magenta & San Vittore, Milan: Map & Verdict Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/magenta-san-vittore Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md 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. Facts: 12 min walk to the Duomo; 50 min to the airport; price €€€; best for couples, sights, quiet, first-timers; lines M1, M2, tram 16, tram 19. Magenta is the strip running west from the Duomo along Corso Magenta to Sant'Ambrogio and the old San Vittore prison: patrician palazzi behind gates, Santa Maria delle Grazie with the Last Supper on its refectory wall, the Sant'Ambrogio basilica, and the Cadorna interchange at the top. It is the best-value central booking in Milan, and the reason is that nothing loud is here. You are ten to fifteen minutes on foot from the Duomo through the Castello park or down Via Meravigli, on M1 and M2, and four minutes from Cadorna where the Malpensa Express leaves. The streets are residential above the ground floor, so it is quiet by 23:00 in a way that Brera and Ticinese are not. What you trade is street life. Corso Magenta has good bars and a couple of serious restaurants and then it stops - the aperitivo crowd is in Brera or on the Navigli, twenty minutes away, and you will walk or take the metro to it every evening. Book the Last Supper before you book the room: tickets go months out and the room is worth much less without it. What works: - Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Last Supper are inside the district - About 12 minutes on foot to the Duomo, and M1 and M2 both stop here - Cadorna station puts the Malpensa Express at the top of the street - Quiet after 23:00 - residential streets rather than a bar strip What does not: - The evening happens elsewhere: Brera and the Navigli are a walk away - Last Supper tickets sell out months ahead, so the sight is not a given - Very little that is cheap - this is an expensive residential quarter - Corso Magenta itself is a busy road with trams and traffic noise Hotels in Magenta & San Vittore: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DMagenta%252C%2520Milan%26latitude%3D45.46502574705882%26longitude%3D9.17219616470588%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. - [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.