La Dolce Far Niente in Milan

Before this short Milan trip I had only been to Italy once before and that was in Rome some four years ago. So it was about the time to get to know a little more of this country of art, history, culture, style, food, chaotic traffic and very relaxed concept of time.

Brera district in Milan

Milan is mainly for fashion, design and shopping. I had my share of shops, great food, delicious coffee and ice cream.

One place worth mentioning is ice cream take away bar Cioccolat Italiani, which had wide range of ice creams and delicious coffee. And it was totally packed with people: on Friday evening it was almost 1 hour queue for ice cream after paying and receiving your number in the line. 

In Milan it kind of feels that all roads lead to The Cathedral Duomo, which without a doubt is the main sight of the town. 

Duomo

Just next to The Cathedral is the classic shopping arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

Another famous sight is Leonardo da Vinci's painting Last Supper at Santa Maria Delle Grazie church. But remember to book your tickets at least a week in advance as this venue is extremely popular! 

It is worth going up to the roof of The Cathedral in order to catch view over Milan and see the details of the beautiful building. Options are take either steps or choose the elevator, which is money well spent as you need to walk some steps also in the roof and the corridors are quite narrow.

You can also get a good view from the roof-top terrace of restaurants above department store La Rinascente. We had a lunch at Obika Mozzarella Bar, which is a simple chain and can be found also at Milan Malpensa airport. 

When walking in Brera district we found a charming restaurant Carminio, which had only been open for a week. Adorable little place with extremely frindly staff and gorgeous food. The concept was to concentrate on local produced Italian food. Everything I ate was extremely tasty and gracious service was the icing on the cake. I can highly recommend this place if you want to experience great food in lovely athmosphere.

Via Del Carmine, 3

 

There a quite a few restaurants called Carminio nearby as the street and the square have the same time so do not miss this modest entrance to the Restaurant Carminio.

The best part of the trip was the day tour to Lake Como. Utterly beautiful, so relaxing and therefore absolutely worth a visit! So convenient to take appr. 30 minutes train trip from Milan Central Station to Como and then hop on a ferry and pop into some of the villages by the lake.

Ferry trip from Como to Bellagio.

Arrivederci e Ci Vediamo!