VisitaMilano

 Area C Congestion Charge
Area C Congestion Charge, from January 2012, introduces new access regulations to the city centre for vehicles from Monday to Friday, from 7.30 to 19.30. Access to the area called “Cerchia dei Bastioni” (43 entrance points) will be restricted to drivers purchasing the 5 Euro ticket valid for all vehicles. Special terms will be applied to residents and duty vehicles. For further details see the website.

 ATM - Azienda Trasporti Milanesi
Established in 1931, since 2001 the Azienda Trasporti Milanesi has been a joint stock company owned by the town of Milan and manages public transportation in the urban area and in 87 towns in the province, servicing an area with an overall population of about 3 million.

 Autostradale Travel Agency
Seasonal buses to Italian tourist destinations. Departures from bus terminal Lampugnano (M1 Lampugnano)

 Autostrade carpooling
Autostrade per l’Italia is promoting a new car-pooling initiative on the A8-A9 motorway (Autostrada dei Laghi) in both directions between Como/Varese and Milan. Vehicles carrying at least 4 passengers will have a reserved lane at the Milano Nord toll station and pay a discounted toll fee from Mondays to Fridays (with the exception of mid-week public holidays), during two separate times periods. For further information, visit their site.

 BikeMi
BikeMi is the new Bike Sharing service in the city of Milan that is easy, practical and ecological. Created to encourage people to get on the move, BikeMi is not just a simple bicycle rental service, but a real public transport system to be used for short journeys (maximum 2 hours) together with the traditional ATM means of transport. Those who join just have to think about taking a bicycle, getting to their destination and returning it to the nearest station. The annual, monthly or daily registration can be done online or at the ATM points and payment can only be made by credit card.

 Bresso Airport
The airport has an old tradition: created as a training camp for military pilots, it was one of the main aerial defense centers during WWII when the current airport installations were constructed. Since 1960 it has been used for sports and tourism and as a flight school. The Aero Club Milan is the main user. The area originally occupied by the airport has significantly diminished in recent years following the establishment of the Nord Milano Park.

 Cadorna Station - The Needle and Thread square and monument
The station originated in the last quarter of the XIX century to link-up the train rails to the pre-alpine hinterland, utilizing a design by the Belge Albert Vaucamps. It was completely renovated in 1956; the building underwent a global restyling (Gae Aulenti) to which we owe the new façade, the coluorful metalic bus shelter, and the sculpture Needle-and-Thread by Claes Oldenbur and Coosje van Bruggen.

 Eurolines
The coach network covers the whole of the continent, including Morocco. Departures from M1 Lampugnano

 Fix fares from/to the airports
The agreement signed by the Lombardy Region, the Provinces of Milan, Varese, Bergamo and towns in the airport area has introduced fixed fares from and to the airport.

 How to reach Milan by car

 Milan - Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport BGY
Orio al Serio - Bergamo airport is in the Province of Bergamo, 50 Km far from Milan.

 Milan Linate Airport LIN
The airport of Milano-Linate (LIN), named after Enrico Forlanini, is the second most important airport. It is a veritable "city airport" (given also its vicinity to the Lombardian city) and as such, it only welcomes short-range domestic and European traffic. Several low-cost airlines also depart from this airport. The airport has a single terminal and two runways, one for commercial traffic and one for general aviation. Although its official name is "Enrico Forlanini airport", after the name of the pioneer of aviation and inventor who was born in Milan, this Milanese airport is more well known by the name of the area near which it is located (Linate, near the municipalities of Segrate and Peschiera Borromeo).

 Milano Central Railway Station
The Central Railway Station of Milan is one of Europe's main railway stations, Italy’s second largest station in terms of size and traffic volume, with around 600 trains per day, two metro lines, the nearby Railway Link, the terminus of a number of urban bus and tram lines and shuttle buses to the airports. The terminal was officially inaugurated in 1931 to replace the old Stazione Centrale (1864), which was a transit station and which could not cope with the new traffic caused by the opening of the Sempione Tunnel (1906).

 Milano Malpensa Airport MXP
Milan-Malpensa is the largest airport in Northern Italy: it is the second largest in Italy after Rome-Fiumicino for number of passengers serviced but the first in cargo and international traffic. Although it is located in the province of Varese, Malpensa has been one of Milan's airports, along with Linate, since the end of the Second World War. In 1909, the first airplane manufacturers, Agusta and Caproni, created a runway near the Malpensa farmhouse to test their prototypes. Later transformed into a military base, it was destroyed during the Second World War but, in 1948, thanks to Lombardy industrialists and investors, the airport and runway were extended and restored, then called the "Città di Busto Arsizio" airport. After the Town and Province of Milan joined the airport management company, the "Società Esercizi Aeroportuali S.E.A." was incorporated in 1955. Since the 60's, Malpensa has been the capital of Lombardy's international airport until the large Malpensa 2000 project.

 Navigli Lombardi
The navigation on the first defense ditch in Milan dates back to 1387, when the transport of marble from Candoglia to the Cathedral building site, began. Navigation, however, was extremely difficult up to 1439 when the Conca di Viarenna was built to allow for continuous navigation from Lake Maggiore to the Fossa Interna in Milan. It was linked up to the Naviglio della Martesana around 1497 with the internal circle maintaining its function of link between the waters of the Ticino and the Adda up to the '30's when it was completely covered.