# Is Ticinese a Good Area to Stay in Milan? Map & Verdict Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/ticinese Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md 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. Facts: 18 min walk to the Duomo; 60 min to the airport; price €€€; best for food, nightlife, couples, solo travellers; lines M4, tram 3, tram 9, tram 15. Corso di Porta Ticinese runs from the edge of the centre down to the Darsena, and the district is essentially that street and the blocks either side of it. It is the compromise most people are actually looking for in Milan: eighteen minutes on foot from the Duomo, five minutes from the canals, and rooms priced below both. It has more of interest than its length suggests - Sant'Eustorgio and the Basilicas Park at one end, the Porta Ticinese gate and the Darsena at the other, and the second-hand and independent shops along the corso in between. The aperitivo route that Milan is known for starts at the Colonne di San Lorenzo and works south into this district before it reaches the canals. The weakness is transport. No metro station falls inside the district; Vetra and Santa Sofia on the new M4 sit on its northern edge, and everything else is trams 3, 9, 10 and 15, which are frequent but slow in traffic. The other weakness is the same as its strength: you are on the drinking route, so a room over the corso will hear it until the small hours on a Saturday. What works: - Eighteen minutes on foot to the Duomo and five to the Darsena - Cheaper than Duomo or Brera for a comparable walk into the centre - Sant'Eustorgio, the Basilicas Park and the Porta Ticinese gate are all here - Trams 3, 9, 10 and 15 run through it, and M4 Vetra is on the northern edge What does not: - No metro station inside the district, only trams and the M4 edge - Rooms over Corso di Porta Ticinese hear the aperitivo crowd until late - Hotel stock is thin - mostly apartments and a handful of small hotels - The Darsena end fills with drinking crowds every warm weekend Hotels in Ticinese: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DPorta%2520Ticinese%252C%2520Milan%26latitude%3D45.45150028%26longitude%3D9.180748326666667%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. - [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.