Venues similar to Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio

Milan's great art gallery in the Palazzo di Brera

Italy's largest science museum in a 16th-century monastery

David Chipperfield's culture museum in a former Ansaldo factory

Rem Koolhaas-designed contemporary-art campus (skip Bar Luce)

A former factory turned one of Europe's great free contemporary-art spaces

Family gelateria since 1930, classic craft and Milanese flavours

Giorgio Armani's own fashion museum in a 1950s grain silo

Cinque Vie's risotto-alla-milanese benchmark since 1933

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

Milan's 1817 caffè-pasticceria, on Montenapoleone since 1950

The original 1824 pasticceria, Belle Époque intact

Fourth-generation Milanese trattoria, since 1921

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

Milanese classics on a site serving food since 1885

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

Liberty-style wine house with a cheese bar, since 1952

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

The home of the Milanese aperitivo, since 1915

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964