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By comparison to Turin, I find Milan much more interesting. Milan at least has the Navigli district, which has a great energy at night time. Plenty of food, bars, and people to make a good night out. Turin falls asleep after 7pm, and the population demographics seem to skew towards those persons 45+ year old. Did all the Torinese youth emigrate?
[Disclosure: my favorite city/place in Italy is Bologna].
I don't find Milan "boring and dull" exactly, but compared to other major Italian cities, definitely yes.
The thing is, Italy probably has the best cities on earth (pound for pound) so Milan, with it's boring boxy 1950's structures, wide highways, commieblock highrises and the like kind of looks like Frankfurt South or Warsaw West (which is not a good thing). There's little charm in Milan. It's a businessperson's city, with limited visual appeal.
By comparison to Turin, I find Milan much more interesting. Milan at least has the Navigli district, which has a great energy at night time. Plenty of food, bars, and people to make a good night out. Turin falls asleep after 7pm, and the population demographics seem to skew towards those persons 45+ year old. Did all the Torinese youth emigrate?
[Disclosure: my favorite city/place in Italy is Bologna].
I can't hear you, the music is too high!
Just joking of course
Anyway, It's kinda ironic for me to read your post today, so that yesterday night nearly all the city was awake to see the fireworks.
I have no idea about how the nigh life in Milan is (so I can't say if it is better of worse), but I can say that here in Turin it is not that bad. The area of the Murazzi and Piazza Vittorio, the area of the "quadrilatero romano" and the locals in the "parco del Valentino" and the near neighbor of "San Salvario" are really famous among the young people of Turin who like nigh life. In some of those places there are also some troubles with the residents that complain for the all-night lasting noise.
About the "Turin falls asleep after 7pm" part, I can assure you that it is not true. You should see the faces of my university mates after the "university nights" that are organized weekly by the main discos of the city.
And about the question "Did all the Torinese youth emigrate?", I can say that it is true the opposite. Turin has two big universities, and there are young people from all over Italy (and even from other countries) who move here.
Turin also hosts a lot of good music concerts. For example in the next few months Turin will host concerts of Bob Dylan, Anastacia (in a neighbor town of the metro area), the U2, Madonna (only Italian city of her tour), and several italian singers.
Turin organizes also a lot of funny events addressed to young people, such as the "color run" organized last month.
If Milan were in the US, it would probably win far more tourists than San Francisco or Miami. (on the other hand, if SF and Miami were in Europe, nobody would pay much attention to them).
If Milan were in the US, it would probably win far more tourists than San Francisco or Miami. (on the other hand, if SF and Miami were in Europe, nobody would pay much attention to them).
I generally agree with this. In the Italian context, Milan is kind of boring.
SF and Miami aren't that bad; they have tons of visitors from outside the U.S., so obviously they do have some global appeal (though I agree both are probably a bit overrated).
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