# Is Navigli a Good Area to Stay in Milan? Map & Verdict Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/navigli Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md 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. Facts: 28 min walk to the Duomo; 60 min to the airport; price €€€; best for nightlife, food, solo travellers; lines M2, tram 2, tram 3, tram 9. The Naviglio Grande and the Naviglio Pavese meet at the Darsena, and both banks are bars, cheap restaurants and, on the last Sunday of the month, a 400-stall antiques market. From about 18:00 the towpaths fill and stay full; this is where Milan drinks, and it is genuinely good at it. By daylight it is a different proposition. Beyond the water there is little to see - the district is residential, the buildings are ordinary, and every sight on your list is a metro ride away rather than a walk. Porta Genova on M2 is inside the district and gets you to the Duomo in about ten minutes, which you will use, because the walk is nearly half an hour. Book here if the evening is the point of the trip. Book one street back from the water, on Via Casale or Via Corsico, unless you want the towpath noise until 02:00 through a single-glazed window. And check the dates: the canals are drained for cleaning in the spring and autumn asciutta, and for those weeks the view from the room is an empty concrete channel. What works: - The best concentration of bars and cheap kitchens in the city, on the doorstep - M2 at Porta Genova reaches the Duomo in about ten minutes - The antiques market on the last Sunday of the month is worth planning around - Rates undercut Ticinese and Brera for a room of the same size What does not: - Twenty-eight minutes on foot to the Duomo, so you commit to the metro - Canalside rooms hear the drinking until about 02:00 from Thursday on - Little reason to be in the district before the evening starts - The canals are drained for weeks in spring and autumn for cleaning Hotels in Navigli: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D5227%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. - [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. - [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.