The 18th-century Indro Montanelli City Gardens are frequented by joggers and flaneurs throughout the day. Kids come here for the bumper cars and the little train, or the guided tours at the Civic Museum of Natural History and the workshops of the Ulrico Hoepli Civic Planetarium, which organizes guided observations and special evenings.

Two of the city's unmissable art institutions, GAM and PAC, are just across the road in Via Palestro. GAM, Gallery of Modern Art, houses masterpieces such as the eponymous Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, and the Lullaby by Maurizio Cattelan, the monumental work the artist created out of the rubble recovered in the aftermath of the bombing of 27 July 1993.

Adjacent to the Gallery, there is PAC, Pavilion of Contemporary Art, one of the most attractive art spaces in the city, offering performances and exhibitions for all ages.

A refined art collection in a modernist villa and a luscious garden that can be admired in all seasons: Villa Necchi Campiglio is one of the most fascinating places in Milano. A new space has recently opened to visitors: it is called "An environment for the Environment", and is a new multimedia space with free entry which tells the story of the old Milano of vegetable gardens, fields and waterways and takes us to the contemporary issue of sustainability.

During the summer, special guided tours and aperitifs are organized by the pool in the shade of the magnolias in the splendid garden.

We'll tell you a secret, but keep your camera ready. Walking from Villa Necchi Campiglio towards the Palestro Gardens, stop and peek between the hedges surrounding the building of Via Cappuccini 7: a mysterious colony of pink flamingos lives in the garden of Villa Invernizzi!

Porta Venezia is a neighborhood built around Art Nouveau architecture. This is where you must come to discover the jewels of Liberty Style in the city: Casa Galimberti in Via Malpighi, with its magnificent decorated facade, Casa Campanini in Via Vincenzo Bellini 11, with the iconic door, and the palazzos around Piazza Eleonora Duse with its rose garden: the Berri-Meregalli houses in Via Mozart 21, Via Barozzi 7 and Via dei Cappuccini 8.

When you have reached Casa Campanini, look around: right in front of you is Basilica of Santa Maria della Passione, one of the largest churches in the city, dating back to the 15th century.

The Luigi Rovati Foundation hosts an incredible collection of Etruscan archeology next to modern art works in this patrician neoclassical building in the heart of Porta Venezia which has been recently opened to the public, complemented by a garden and a bistro in the inner yard and a restaurant on the roof manned by chef Andrea Aprea.

Visitors can admire 200 works including vases, votive offerings, cinerary urns, Etruscan bronzes are exhibited alongside masterpieces by Lucio Fontana, Arturo Martini, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol.

Porta Venezia is an eclectic neighborhood capable of being glam, pop and geek at the same time. A demonstration of this is MEET, the center for digital culture located in Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, in an elegant building from the early 20th century. Here the gaze is focused on the electronic present and the artificial future, with talks and exhibits at the intersection of art, science and technology.

An aperitivo in Porta Venezia is the perfect ritual. You can get a Spritz in one of the LGBTQIA+ bars in Via Lecco and the surrounding maze of streets, or go for a Negroni Sbagliato in its signature glass right where it was invented, Bar Basso, at the end of via Plinio (M1 Lima).

Then it’s time for dinner. Eritrean or Italian cuisine? Indian or Argentinian? In this neighborhood, there is one of the highest concentration of bars and restaurants you can find in the city. And all the nations and tastes of the world are represented.

Corso Buenos Aires is one of the longest shopping avenues in Europe: there’s a smorgasbord of stores for all pockets and two cycle tracks in both directions until you reach Piazzale Loreto, which is waiting to be completely transformed.

M1 P.ta Venezia and Lima