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More "intense" feeling city (structural density, population density, congestion, size, scale): Madrid or Milano?
I have never been to Milano, I don't know off first hand experience how it would compare but on paper these two seem to be an appropriate match. Both anchor metropolises of over 7 million people. Both experience high structural density and population density levels, and staggering human population traffic on its streets and walkways.
Which one feels like a much more intense city though? By size, scale, scope, congestion, structural density, human population density, infrastructure (railways, roadways, airports), geographic barriers, so on and so forth.
Lived for 6 months in Madrid and lived in Bologna for a year (with frequent trips to Milan).
Madrid is by far the more "intense" city on almost all measures. Milan maybe wins on airports and railways (but only barely since Spain has fantastic infrastructure in general, but Renfe is a lot more expensive than Trenitalia)
Madrid has the 5th busiest airport in Europe (6th if we count Istanbul as Europe). Just after Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt & Schiphol-Amsterdam.
About the trains if I don't remember bad Spain is the 2nd country in the world with the biggest extension of High Speed trains, the 1st of Europe. And most of those trains are linked to Madrid.
So from Madrid you can go to barely any big Spanish city in a dozen of minutes/a couple of hours. Madrid offers a more intense feeling of big city.
Madrid and Milan are not comparable. It is a absurd thread .-They are in different competitions from cities
MADRID WAS Capital of a immense Empire during Centuries in which even Milan was also dependent of madrid
Madrid for its history even today only in Europe it is comparable with the other Capitals of the Great Countries of Europe ,London Paris Berlin.etc
For his Royals Palaces,his extraordinary Museums ,by the millions of visitors of every year of countries of Spanish speech that before were colonies of Spain,By be the Capital politica Financial and Economic of Spain etc etc etc etc.-
Milan is an Regional Capital of industrial character of Great level Economic ,with fame for its fashion designers by its famous Opera etc .But even in art and architecture and as Political Center there are other italian cities much more important than Milan.-
But between Madrid and Milano, edge to Madrid for sure, for reasons some have already cited.
But urdiales is deliriously shortchanging Milano, it is more than a regional capital and it radiates power and intensity in subtle ways.
Nevertheless, Milano is certainly on the decline along with the rest of Italy over the past 25 years and counting, while Madrid and Spain have been on the relative ascendant over the past 35.
Madrid around Atocha
Milan around Galleria...Domo...in general, Madrid
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