# Staying in Porta Venezia & Corso Buenos Aires: Map & Verdict Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/porta-venezia Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md 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. Facts: 25 min walk to the Duomo; 55 min to the airport; price €€; best for budget, first-timers, food, solo travellers, longer stays; lines M1, M2, M4. Safety: Mixed after dark. Piazzale Loreto and the last few blocks of Corso Buenos Aires before it are named in Milan's own safety guidance as unpleasant at night. Book south of Lima, towards Porta Venezia, and the problem does not arise. The district is Corso Buenos Aires and the streets either side, running north-east from Porta Venezia to Piazzale Loreto. The corso is one of the longest shopping streets in Europe, which makes it loud and useful in equal measure, and the side streets behind it are quiet nineteenth-century blocks with the cheapest genuinely central hotel rooms in Milan. Transport is the argument for it. Porta Venezia, Lima and Loreto are M1, Loreto is also M2, and Tricolore at the southern tip is on M4, so Linate, the Duomo and Centrale are all a short ride away. The walk to the Duomo is about twenty-five minutes through the Giardini Pubblici, which is a pleasant way to arrive and not a fast one. The eating is the other argument: this is where Milan's Eritrean and Ethiopian restaurants are, along with the city's main gay bars around Via Lecco and Porta Venezia. The direction matters, though. Quality falls off as you go north, and Piazzale Loreto at the top of the corso is one of three places Wikivoyage names as unpleasant after dark. Rooms get cheaper towards it, and that is what you are paying less for. What works: - M1, M2 and M4 all serve the district; the Duomo is seven minutes by metro - The cheapest three-star rooms with a genuinely central address - Eritrean, Ethiopian and Middle Eastern kitchens Milan otherwise lacks - Twenty-five minutes to the Duomo on foot through the Giardini Pubblici What does not: - Corso Buenos Aires is a six-lane chain-store canyon, not a pretty street - Rooms facing the corso hear traffic from 07:00; ask for a courtyard - The northern end towards Loreto is grim and gets grimmer after dark - Nothing to see in the district itself beyond the shopping Hotels in Porta Venezia & Corso Buenos Aires: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DPorta%2520Venezia%252C%2520Milan%26latitude%3D45.4778784375%26longitude%3D9.2113724875%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. - [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.