75 min
60 min
M5 · tram 16
0.9 / km²
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Mixed after dark
The public housing blocks around Piazzale Selinunte and Via Micene have an established drug-dealing problem, and the streets around the stadium empty fast after a match. Stick to the Ippodromo side and use M5 rather than walking after dark.
Staying in San Siro
People book San Siro for one of two reasons: a match at the Meazza, or a rate that looks like a bargain next to the centre's. Neither survives contact with the district. The stadium is on M5 and tram 16, so you can sleep anywhere central and be in your seat in half an hour, and the saving on the room is spent on the journeys you make instead of walking.
The district itself is arterial roads, the ippodromo, and the Quartiere San Siro, a large inter-war public housing estate that is one of the poorest parts of the city. There is no restaurant street, no square worth sitting in, and nothing on any visitor's list except the stadium and the horses. The Duomo is 5 km east - about seventy-five minutes on foot, or twenty-five on M5 with a change.
The honest version of the argument for it: if you are driving, it is outside Area C, parking exists and the western ring road is close. That is a real advantage and it is the only one, and it is not usually worth what it costs in time for the rest of the stay.
What works
- Outside the Area C congestion charge, with parking, if you are driving
- M5 has three stations in the district and reaches Garibaldi in 15 minutes
- Rooms are among the cheapest in the city on non-match nights
What does not
- Seventy-five minutes on foot to the Duomo; 5 km with nothing on the way
- One metro line and one tram, and both are slow branch services
- Nothing to eat or do in the district outside the stadium's own bars
- Rates spike and the streets fill on the sixty-odd match days a year
They share the San Siro stadium, capacity 80,000, which is 3 km west of city centre with its own metro stop.