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5 towns closer to Milan than Milan's suburbs
Five towns: what each is best for, what a home costs, and the catch. A square meter runs from €950 in Morimondo to €4,300 in Bergamo.
Comuni within a 55 minute drive of Milan, closer in time than much of the city's own commuter belt at rush hour. 5 towns shown, nearest first.
Table no. 7 · Ranked by min · 5 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.Gorgonzola32 minMilano · LombardiaBest for a trip without a car. The train stops in the commune.homes €1,900 to €2,450 a m² in the center · 21,306 peopleThe town that gave its name to the cheese, a 21,000-resident commune 24 km east of Milan, where some sources date the first Gorgonzola to AD 879, with three stops on Milan's M2 metro line.
- 2.Cassinetta di Lugagnano38 minMilano · LombardiaBest for a walk through the old town. It is on the list of Italy's most beautiful villages.homes €1,100 to €1,450 a m² in the center · 1,934 peopleA commune west of Milan with fifteen surviving ville di delizia and Italy's first zero-growth urban plan, adopted in 2007.
- 3.Capriate San Gervasio40 minBergamo · LombardiaBest for a World Heritage site. UNESCO lists a site in the comune.homes €1,250 to €1,750 a m² in the center · 8,286 peopleThe Bergamasco town that holds Crespi d'Adda, the late-nineteenth-century company village inscribed by UNESCO in 1995 as a model workers' settlement.
- 4.Morimondo41 minMilano · LombardiaBest for a small town. 1,000 people live here.homes €950 to €1,300 a m² in the center · 1,000 peopleA Cistercian abbey village on the edge of the Ticino park, twenty-five kilometers southwest of Milano, founded by French monks in 1134.
- 5.Bergamo51 minBergamo · LombardiaBest for everyday life on foot. Nine of the ten everyday services we look for are mapped within 500 meters of the center.homes €1,500 to €4,300 a m² in the center · 120,389 peopleA two-city Lombard capital where a Venetian walled hilltown sits 85 meters above its modern twin on the plain, 45 kilometers northeast of Milan.
We write letters from the Italian towns we visit: the town, what is worth eating there, and when to turn up. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.
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