Milan is a capital of Lombardy & the fiscal capital of Italy, though superseded by Rome in part of national Gross Domestic Product at the municipal level (Sestet.Five percent vs. Quatern.8 percent), & is at about at a equivalent level at a provincial level (€104 billion vs. € 126 billion). Milano is at a heart of one of a richest regions of the globe. A Milano Fair is one of a top leaders of a globe by using a Hannover, Los Angeles & Paris fairs; the recently Fair of Milano, opened inside July 2005 is globe large by using 460.000 square meters of handle surface & thomas more of Ii.V Hundreds to thousands of square meters of amount surface.

Milan's title hwhen for several centuries been recorded as Mailand, which is however a German name of the city today. It comes from either a Celtic Mid-lan (meaning "in the middle of the plain")& was referred to as Mediolanum by the Romans.

Its province lies in the american a portion of Lombardy; it covers an area of 1,98Ii kilometre² & has a people of 3,707,210 (2001 nosecount); inside 1991, the people was 3,738,685. A province is 18Eighter from decatur communes, ranging within people (2001) from either Milan Municipality (1,256,211) to Nosate (638); a city of Milan has misused 113,084 indweller (8.Three percent), from either 1991 to 2001. A todays city manager of Milan is Gabriele Albertini.

A town is far-famed for fashion firms and shops (via Montenapoleone) and a Galleria Vittorio Emanuele on the Piazza Duomo, reputed to be the world's oldest mall. Milan is one of the world upper case of fashion, like New York City, Paris, London and Rome, and design. A second celebrated product of the city is the traditional Christmas sweet cake called Panettone. Milan is likewise far-famed for the Alfa Romeo and its silk production.

History
These are presumed Milan was originally founded per Celts of Northern Italy around 600 BC and was conquered around 222 BC by the Romans, who gave it a title of Mediolanum. In the 4th century The.D., at a instance of the bishop Saint Ambrose and emperor Theodosius I, a city was briefly the capital of the American Roman Empire. At that instance Milan was a 2nd big city inside Europe, using to a higher degree 300,000 indweller.

In a 11th century, when the Ostrogothic and Lombard periods, a city regained its importance & led more Italian cities inside gaining semi-independence from either the Holy Roman Empire. In a period of the Plague of 1349 Milan was one of the couple pages within Europe that was untouched per epidemic, however it was deeply affected per plagues of 1402 (50,000 deaths), 1542 (80,000), 1576 (17,000) & 1629 (70,000). In a period of the Renaissance Milan was ruled by dukes of the Visconti and Sforza families, who got creative person such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bramante at their service. Fallowing trying to conquer a rest of northern Italy in the 15th century, Milan was conquered by France, and then by Spain, in the early 16th century.

In the 18th century Austria replaced Spain as Milan's master, however a French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars saw a city annexed into the French satellite states of the Cisalpine Republic, which later became a Kingdom of Italy. When this period of time, Milan was a portion of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, under Austrian rule. Milan sooner or later became one of a independent centers of Italian nationalism, claiming independence & a unification of Italy.

Around 1859 (fallowing a 2nd of the Wars of Italian Independence) Austrian rule was ended by the Kingdom of Sardinia (which transformed into the kingdom of Italy in 1861).

As a critical industrial center of Italy, Milan was target of continuous carpet bombing during World War II. A city was bombed potentially when Pietro Badoglio surrendered to the allied forces in 1943. In point of fact Milan was a portion of Mussolini's puppet state Italian Social Republic and an important command centre of the German Army stationed within Italy. Whilst war within Italy was eventually assibilate, April 25 1945, Milan was heavily damaged & entire neighborhoods like Precotto & Turro were destroyed. Fallowing a war a city was reconstructed & has once again be an significant fiscal & industrial centre of Italy. Understand likewise: Rulers of Milan.

Demographics
Milan occurs as super diverse city, because these are a 2nd big city inside Italy however these are probably a virtually all industrial centre in the united states. Tremendously of the immigrants come from either Asian and North African nations. The super little percentage comes from either Latin America. A city is 91% Italian, and a leftover groups include Egyptian, Filipino, Sri Lankan, Peruvian, Chinese, and Albanian.

Economy
Milan is the centre of several fiscal businesses, & its hinterland is an avant-garde industrial area. [http://www.fieramilano.com/ Fiera Milano], a city's Exhibition Center & Trade Fair complex is one of a first in the globe. A freshly fairground, northward-american suburban area of Pero & Rho (opened inside April 2005) is Europe's big open construction plan & makes Fiera Milano a big trade fair complex in the globe.

Milan is considered an Alpha city in the economic report:

The - ALPHA Globe CITIES (good service globe cities)

12: London, Future York, Paris, Tokyo 10: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

B - BETA Globe CITIES (major globe cities)

9: San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zurich 8: Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, Sao Paulo 7: Moscow, Seoul

C - GAMMA Globe CITIES (minor globe cities)

6: Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Montréal, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington 5: Bangkok, Beijing, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw 4: Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai

Famous Businesses of Milan
Giorgio Armani Dolce & Gabbana Prada Gianni Versace Pirelli Telecom Italia Fiera Milano Alemagna Alfa Romeo Motta Mediaset Bugatti Corriere della Sera/RCS Feltrinelli Editore Mondadori Editore ENI Ferrovie Nord Milano Banca Intesa Mediobanca

Architecture & Places
Principal churches
Duomo (Milan cathedral) Sant'Alessandro Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio Santa Maria delle Grazie (with Leonardo's "Last Supper") San Babila San Bernardino alle Ossa Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio Basilica di San Lorenzo *San Marco Santuario di Santa Maria dei Miracoli Santa Maria del Carmine Basilica di San Nazaro Maggiore Santa Maria presso San Satiro San Sebastiano San Simpliciano Santo Stefano Maggiore

Famous monuments
Alessandro Manzoni in Piazza San Fedele Colonne di San Lorenzo Disc of Pomodoro Fontana del Piermarini in Piazza Fontana Mazzini's monument in Piazza della Repubblica Monumento Cinque Giornate Napoleone of Canova in Brera Statua di Oldrado da Trasseno del Palazzo della Ragione San Carlo Borromeo in Piazza Borromeo Leonardo's monument in Piazza della Scala Roman amphitheatre (scant remains) Archi di Porta Nuova Leonardo district attorney Vinci's Horse Statue at Hippodrome "The Needle and the Yarn" around Plaza Cadorna

Notable architecture
Duomo Castello Sforzesco (Sforza Castle) Ca' Granda (University of Milan) Palazzo della Ragione Palazzo Reale Teatro alla Scala Central Station (the large Italian station) Palazzo Serbelloni Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Velasca Tower Pirelli Tower (seat of Lombardy Region & a greatest italian skyscraper) New Milan Fair Complex of M. Fuksas (inside Rho-Pero)

Culture & Art

Milan is one of a first centres in the globe for Opera lirica, with its notable Teatro alla Scala (La Scala, theatre).

A Biblioteca Ambrosiana contains drawings and notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci among its vast holdings of books, manuscripts & drawings & is one of a independent repositories of European culture. A city is as well a house of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.

In the church Santa Maria delle Grazie can be found one of a best known paintings of Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper (it: "Cenacolo").

Milan is easily known for is its tremendous grafitti condition. These are internationally regarded when with one of a worst problems around Europe, chiefly from either a city's local youth. These are layered around several area of a towns & has processed its impact throughout the city. This is believed to become from either Milan's anti-grafitti laws, which Milan residents largely repute a joke.

Museums & Exhibitions
Pinacoteca di Brera Pinacoteca Ambrosiana Galleria five hundred'Arte Moderna Triennale di Milano Castello Sforzesco Museo Egizio Museo Poldi Pezzoli Museo della Preistoria e Protostoria Museo 500’Arte Antica Palazzo Reale Museo Teatro alla Scala Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea Museo di Storia Naturale Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica "Leonardo da Vinci" Galleria Vinciana Museo Bagatti Valsecchi Museo degli Strumenti Musicali Museo delle Arti Decorative Museo Archeologico Museo di Milano Museo di Storia Contemporanea Museo del Risorgimento

Theaters
Teatro alla Scala Arcimboldi Piccolo teatro Teatro Lirico Teatro Carcano CRT - Teatro dingle'Arte Manzoni Ventaglio Nazionale Nuovo Nuovo Piccolo Teatro Piccolo Teatro di Milano San Babila Smeraldo Ciak Della 14a Filodrammatici Litta Olmetto Out Off L'Elfo Porta Romana Franco Parenti Teatro Studio Verdi

Universities
Politecnico di Milano Università Statale Università Statale Milano-Bicocca Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Bocconi Scuola Superiore di Direzione Aziendale - Bocconi Università We.U.L.M. Università C.Cattaneo L.I personally.U.C. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele L.U.C. Beato Angelico Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Conservatorio Superiore "G. Verdi" di Milano Istituto Europeo di Design I.S.E.F.

Transportation
Airports
the city has a big international airdrome called Malpensa International Airport (MXP), located in Varese, Italy and connected at a business district sustaining a railway service known as "Malpensa Express" (from either Cadorna Station). Milan has likewise a Linate Airport (LIN) within a city limits (for european-national traffic) & attached by having BUS line 73 (from either S. Babila).

Subways, tramways, and buses

Milan has Deuce-ace subway lines (M1 - red, M2 - green, M3 - yellow) and a patterns, known as Milan Metro - "M", runs for supplementary than Eighty kilometre. There exists as well the lightly metro-service known as "Metrò S. Raffaele", that connects a S. Raffaele Hospital by having a Cascina Gobba station (M2). Extensions of line I, Two & Three come under construction, yielding further than Fifteen kilometre of track using X fresh stations. Line Five is too under construction & is finished in the foremost half of 2008. Line Four (hyperlink by using business district & Linate Airport) & Half a dozen come within planning stages.

Milan besides has one of a virtually all extensive tramway systems in the globe, sustaining other than 286 klick of tracks & Twenty lines copulative Greater Milan.

There are 93 bus lines covering all over 1,070 kilometre amongst the babies. A local transport authority (ATM) transported further than 600 million rider within 2003 .

National Railway
Milan is one of a first railway hubs of Italy, and a Fin major stations of Milan come among Italy's occupy: Milano Centrale (passenger station - a 2nd italian station) Milano P.ta Garibaldi (rider station) Milano Lambrate (rider station) Milano Rogoredo (rider station) Milano Greco (rider station) Milano San Cristoforo (rider & payload station) Milano Porta Romana (rider & shipment station) Milano Certosa (rider station) Milano Smistamento/Scalo Farini (cargo-trains).

3 newly stations for rider service come under construction: Milano Romolo Milano Tibaldi Milano/Rho Fiera

High speed train lines come under contruction completely through Italy, & in the next Ternary years up to date lines is opened from either either Milan to Rome & Naples & from Milan to Torino. A stations for the TAV (Treni ad Alta Velocità - High Speed Trains) is: Milano Rogoredo (for the south) Milano Certosa & Milano/Rho Fiera (for the West)

A line from either Milan to Venice so to Trieste is partly under construction. At a prevent of a function the station for the TAV from either Milan to the East is: Milano Pioltello

Regional-Metropolitan Railway services
A Suburban Railway Service (known as "S" Lines, a service similar to the French RER & German S-Bahn), composed of Eight suburban lines (Decade scheduled for 2008), connects the "Greater Milan" & more cities, such as Como or Varese. A Regional Railway Service (known as "R"), instead, links Milan by having a rest of Lombardy and with a national railroad line. A "Passante ferroviario" is an underground railway serving a few "S" lines & is a great deal such as an additional subway line (& is possibly marked per se in subway maps), except that these are attached to the FNME & Trenitalia suburban networks.

Taxis
Milan has an effective Cab service, operated by personal corporations & licensed per City of Milan (Comune di Milano). Everthing hack come a equivalent color: white. Price levels come according to instance elapsed & few feet away traveled.

Sports
Football is the first sport inside Italy, & Milan is residence of Ii globe-famous football teams: A.C. Milan and Internazionale. Milan is a single city inside Europe in which teams own won two a Champions European Ventral suction Ventral suction cup & the Intercontinental Cup. Each teams play at Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium (85,700). Numbers of of the strongest Italian players of Football were born around Milano or even in the nerby Area: Valentino Mazzola, Renzo De Vecchi, Paolo Maldini, Giuseppe Meazza, Giacinto Facchetti, Gianni Rivera, Valentino Rossi, Luigi Riva, Gaetano Scirea, Giuseppe Bergomi, Walter Zenga, Antonio Cabrini, Roberto Donadoni, Gianluca Vialli, Silvio Piola, Virginio Rosetta, Giampiero Boniperti, Giuseppe Dossena, Gabriele Oriali, Giuseppe Signori, Ugo Locatelli, Giampiero Marini, Aristide Guarneri, Paolino Pulici, Marcello Lippi, Giovanni Trapattoni, Franco e Giuseppe Baresi, Luigi Cevenini, Virgilio e Giuseppe Fossati, Giovanni Ferrari...

The famed Monza Formula One circuit is located in the suburban area. It one of the world's oldest auto racing circuits, & one of a best known. A capacity for the F1 races is about 137,000 population. Olimpia Milano is a successful European basketball team that have won Three European Cups, the Globe Ventral suction cup, Trine Winners' Cups, Deuce Korac Cups & Twenty-five National Championships. These are a first Italian team & one of a top Phoebe around Europe. Olimpia play at Forum (capacity of 14,000 population). The Amatory Rugby Club Milano have won 18 National Championships & come a best known and significant Rugby football team of Italy. Different ice hockey teams from either Milan own won 30 National Championships between the children. within todays world a Vipers Milano st& won a survive Tetrad national championships, a Alpenliga & many Coppa Italia, and come a leaders of that sport in Italy. It play at a Agora Stadium (capacity 4,500) in a period of a regular year & at a Forum when you took the playoffs . Every season within Milan is played a Bonfiglio Trophy of Lawn tennis for Under Eighteen. These are a first youth tournament in a globe, & is played at the Milan Tennis Club. the Central Court has a capacity of 8000 humans. (It used to be that it has been won by Tacchini, Kodes, Panatta, Barazzutti, Moreno, Borg, Smid, Lendl, Forget, Curier, Ivanisevic, Kafelnikov, Coira)

Milan & Lombardy are candidate for the Summer Olympic Games of 2016 (Milan-Lombardy 2016).

Stadiums
Autodromo Nazionale Monza - car and moto racing - 137,000 San Siro - only football - 85,700 Arena Civica - Athletic, Rugby, Football, 30,000 Brianteo - Athletic, Football - 18,568 Ippodromo del Trotter - Horse Racing - 16,000 Ippodromo del Galoppo - Horse Racing - 15,000 Forum di Assago - Basket, Hockey, Volley, Music - 13,000 to 16,000 MazdaPalace - Basket, Volley - 13,500 Velodromo Vigorelli - Cycling, American Football - 12,000 PalaLido - Basket - 5,000 Agorà - Ice Hockey - 4,000 Nuovo Giuriati - Rugby - 4,000

More bowl & multiuse palaces come in the Area. A biggest come a Monza Brianteo Stadium (18,000 seats), a PalaDesio (10,000) & a Geas Stadium (8,500).

Communication & media
Newspapers
Corriere della Sera (daily) Il Giorno (daily) Il Giornale (daily) Libero (daily) Il Only 24Ore (daily) Milano Finanza (daily) La Padania (daily) La Gazzetta dello Sport (daily) Metro (daily)

Magazines
Panorama (weekly) La Settimana Enigmistica (weekly) TV Sorrisi & Canzoni (weekly) Oggi (weekly) Marie Claire (weekly) AnnaBella (weekly) Explora (monthly) Focus (monthly)

TV and radio
Mediaset (National Hdq) RAI (Milan Regional Hdq) MTV (South-Europe Hdq) Sky Italia (National Hdq) Radio Deejay (National Hdq) Radio 1o1 Radio 105 Radio 24

Famous residents
100% 6 members of Lacuna Coil, a gothic heavily metal band

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister in 1994 and 2001-?

Sister cities
Milan has Fourteen sister cities: Bethlehem, Israel Birmingham, England, [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/twins Birmingham's Partner City page] Boston, USA Chicago, Illinois, USA Krakow, Poland Dakar, Senegal Frankfurt am Main, Germany Lyon, France Melbourne, Australia Osaka, Japan Saint Petersburg, Russia São Paulo, Brazil Shanghai, China Tianjin, China Tel Aviv, Israel Thessaloniki, Greece Toronto, Canada