25 min
45 min
M1 · tram 16
7.8 / km²
0
4
308
+11% vs city
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Staying in Pagano
Pagano is the residential quarter west of the old walls, hung on Corso Vercelli - the shopping street Milanese use when they cannot face Corso Buenos Aires - and reaching out to Piazza Piemonte and the Fiera edge. It is nineteenth and twentieth-century apartment blocks with porters, and it is one of the wealthiest addresses in the city.
Booking here is a transport decision. M1 runs under Corso Vercelli with two stations inside the district, so the Duomo is six minutes and San Siro is fifteen, and rooms cost about a third less than the equivalent in Brera. If you are here for a match, a trade fair or a concert at the Ippodromo, it is the obvious base.
Otherwise it is unremarkable. Nothing historic survives here, the restaurants are competent neighbourhood places rather than destinations, and the district goes to sleep early. It is a 25-minute walk to the Duomo along a busy road, and if you want to be somewhere in the evening you will be taking M1 back into town.
What works
- Two M1 stations in the district - six minutes to the Duomo
- Halfway to San Siro, which matters for a match or a concert
- Corso Vercelli is a real shopping street with food halls and markets
- Quiet, safe, well-kept streets with porters on the doors
What does not
- Nothing historic or notable to see anywhere in the district
- About 25 minutes on foot to the Duomo, along a traffic road
- Restaurants close early and the area is dead by 23:00
- You will use the metro every evening to go anywhere
One of these is Corso Vercelli (MM1 Pagano, MM1 Conciliazione subway stations), another one is Corso Buenos Aires (MM1 Porta Venezia, MM1 Lima, MM1/MM2 Loreto subway stations), reputed as being the longest shopping street of Europe.