Guide to Milan & Lake Como with Range Rover

Each year I travel to Milan in April for the world’s biggest design fair, Salone Del Mobile. The city comes alive, historical villas open with incredible installations, restaurants buzz and everywhere you turn there is a design touch point which is why Milan is crowned Italy’s design capital.

When I first visited Italy, Rome, Florence, and Venice were the cities everyone told me to see. But Milan never seemed to be on the list. Big mistake. Big. Huge!

Milan is Italy’s design, media, fashion and financial centre and there is boundless beauty, hypermodernity contrasted with the wonderfully old, quaint neighbourhoods, masterpieces like Da Vinci’s Last Supper and some of the best food in the country.

You may have to dig a little deeper behind the cobblestone streets, but when you know where to go, Milan unveils itself and doesn’t let go.

Milan

Art & Culture

Fondazione Prada
Santa Maria Delle Grazie
Teatro al Scala
Villa Necchi Campiglio
Casa Degli Atellani
Parco Sempione
Monumental Cemetery
Nilufar Depot & Gallery
Rossana Orlandi
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Dimore Gallery

Shop

Antonia

10 Corso Como
A Milan must!

Mauro Grifoni Store

Pineider
Every stationery dream come true

Laboratorio Paravicini

Ginori

Ralph Lauren
Shop, drink and eat all under one very chic roof

La Rinascente
La Double J

Boffi
For interior inspo

Galleria Luisa Delle Piane
Tachen
Wait and See

Stay

Palazzo Parigi

Portrait Milano
The chic new kid on the block

Mandarin Oriental
Gallerie Vik
Casa Cipriani
Four Seasons
Hotel Principe di Savoia
Room Mate Guila

Appertivo

Bar Basso
A Milanese institution!

Lu Bar
Picture perfect garden vibes

Fioraio Bianchi
Four Seasons
Ceresio 7
Rita
Ugo
Pave
Bulgari Hotel
Mag Café

Coffee & Gelato

Marchesi 1824
Visit the orginal on Via Santa Maria Alla Porta

Artico Gelateria
Gelato Giusto
Pasticceria Cucchi
Pasticerria Gatulo
Bar Luce
Orsonero Coffee
Il Cafetero Speciality Coffee
Sissi Café

Romanengo 1780
Italy’s oldest confectionary shop

Restaurants

Rovello 18
My all-time fave. Cacio e Pepe…

Da Giacomo

Latteria San Marco
A MUST!

Bice
Cracco
Antica Trattoria della Pesa
Ratana
Paper Moon
L’Angosteria and L’Angosteria Bistrot
Urbarba
Sant’Ambroeus
Osteria Del Binari
Trattoria Trippa
Horto

Travel less than an hour drive from the city, and you’ll be in another one of my favourite places in the world, Lago di Como. I was lucky enough hit the highway in the new Range Rover sport which tackled the autostrada A9 as easily as the narrow streets of Como. The landscape beauty knows no bounds and your dream to play a lead role in a classic Italian movie becomes reality every single day.

Find out about the Range Rover Sport

Steve CordonyMay 18, 20231 Comment