One Day in Milan: A Quick List of Things to Do

“One day in Milan is enough,” my Italian Airbnb host shared, as I peppered her with questions upon check-in.

I was excited to hit the ground running having spent the last two days at airports and up in the air with Norwegian Air and another budget carrier.

It was a friend’s wife who’d given Milan a positive plug when I mentioned I was heading back to Italy for the fourth time. She’d studied there when she was younger.

At a minimum, I knew Milan’s cathedral was one of the largest in the world, and so with a personal recommendation and a UNESCO World Heritage Site to visit, I gave myself a few nights in Italy’s fashion capital before continuing to Florence, Tuscany, and Bologna.

Due to jetlag, I ended up needing two days to see what I mentioned in this article. However, I’m confident travelers already in the region can comfortably see everything in a single day.

The historic area is walkable, however, to get there, you’ll likely want to take the metro train as…