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10 towns closer to Milan than Milan's suburbs
Comuni within a 55 minute drive of Milan, closer in time than much of the city's own commuter belt at rush hour. 10 towns shown, nearest first.
Table no. 7 · Ranked by min · 10 towns
At rush hour, parts of Milan's own hinterland take longer to reach than these towns do. Each sits within fifty five minutes of the city by road, which puts them inside the commute radius of half the Lombard workforce.
The difference is what you find on arrival: a lake shore, a moraine hill, a walled centro that never got absorbed into the sprawl. Same commuting time, different century.
- 1.Bergamo13 minBergamo · LombardyA two-city Lombard capital where a Venetian walled hilltown sits 85 meters above its modern twin on the plain, 45 kilometers northeast of Milan.
- 2.Capriate San Gervasio23 minBergamo · LombardyThe Bergamasco town that holds Crespi d'Adda, the late-nineteenth-century company village inscribed by UNESCO in 1995 as a model workers' settlement.
- 3.Sarnico32 minBergamo · LombardyA medieval lake town at the southern tip of Lago d'Iseo, where the Oglio leaves the lake and Liberty villas line the shore.
- 4.Gorgonzola37 minMilano · LombardyThe town that gave its name to the cheese, a 21,000-resident commune 24 km east of Milan and the documented birthplace of Gorgonzola DOP since AD 879, now the eastern terminus of Milan's M2 metro line.
- 5.Predore38 minBergamo · LombardyA small village on the Bergamo shore, sitting on a Roman villa with intact thermal baths underneath.
- 6.San Pellegrino Terme38 minBergamo · LombardyA Liberty-era spa town in the Val Brembana, built around sulfur springs that give the world its mineral water.
- 7.Iseo40 minBrescia · LombardyThe main town on the southeast shore of Lake Iseo, gateway to the Franciacorta sparkling wine country.
- 8.Soncino44 minCremona · LombardyA walled borgo on the Oglio, held by a brick Sforza fortress and a printing house that once worked in Hebrew.
- 9.Clusone49 minBergamo · LombardyAt 648 meters, capital of the macabre fresco and the 1583 planetary clock above its civic tower.
- 10.Lovere51 minBergamo · LombardyAn amphitheater town at the north end of a Lombard lake, in Borghi più belli since 2003, holding Canova plasters inside the Accademia Tadini.
TEN OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN LOMBARDY
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