Place 3 of 23Italy, Italy
Milan
The history
Italy's money and fashion capital, with the most extravagant Gothic cathedral in the country at its centre and Leonardo's Last Supper on a refectory wall nearby.
In brief
Milan is the regional capital of Lombardy, in northern Italy, and the seat of the Metropolitan City of Milan. It is the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with a population of 1,362,863 in 2026. The city's wider metropolitan area is the largest in Italy, and the fourth-largest in the European Union, with an estimated population of 6.55 million. Milan is considered Italy's economic capital, and its metropolitan area accounts for about 20% of the country's GDP.
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