Day trips
Day trips from Milano
24 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Gorgonzola is 32 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
Gorgonzola
Province: Milano · 132 m
32 minutes from Milano. The 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.
Cassinetta di Lugagnano
Province: Milano · 120 m
38 minutes from Milano. A commune west of Milan with fifteen surviving ville di delizia and Italy's first zero-growth urban plan, adopted in 2007.
Capriate San Gervasio
Province: Bergamo · 190 m
40 minutes from Milano. The Bergamasco town that holds Crespi d'Adda, the late-nineteenth-century company village inscribed by UNESCO in 1995 as a model workers' settlement.
Bergamo
Province: Bergamo · 249 m
51 minutes from Milano. A two-city Lombard capital where a Venetian walled hilltown sits 85 meters above its modern twin on the plain, 45 kilometers northeast of Milan.
Sesto Calende
Province: Varese · 198 m
53 minutes from Milano. The town at the southern tip of the lake where the Ticino starts toward the Po, the type site of the pre-Roman Golasecca culture.
Angera
Province: Varese · 205 m
60 minutes from Milano. A Lake Maggiore town on the southern shore, anchored by a fortified castle on a limestone spur above the water, with a museum trail running from prehistory to the medieval period along the waterfront.
Morimondo
Province: Milano · 109 m
60 minutes from Milano. A Cistercian abbey village on the edge of the Ticino park, twenty-five kilometers southwest of Milano, founded by French monks in 1134.
Cernobbio
Province: Como · 201 m
63 minutes from Milano. The town where Villa d'Este has been a luxury hotel since 1873.
Torno
Province: Como · 225 m
64 minutes from Milano. A medieval village on the eastern shore of Lake Como, built around a spring whose rhythm has drawn attention for centuries.
Porto Ceresio
Province: Varese · 271 m
66 minutes from Milano. The Italian port on the southern shore where the Swiss border runs through the water below Monte San Giorgio.
Pizzighettone
Province: Cremona · 46 m
67 minutes from Milano. A walled town on the Adda below Cremona, where Francis I of France was held for fifty days in the Torre del Guado after Pavia.
Soncino
Province: Cremona · 88 m
67 minutes from Milano. A walled borgo on the Oglio, held by a brick Sforza fortress and a printing house that once worked in Hebrew.
Sarnico
Province: Bergamo · 197 m
70 minutes from Milano. A medieval lake town at the southern tip of Lago d'Iseo, where the Oglio leaves the lake and Liberty villas line the shore.
Laveno-Mombello
Province: Varese · 200 m
74 minutes from Milano. The eastern Lake Maggiore port town that produced Lombardia's industrial ceramics for a century, under the cliff that hangs over it.
San Pellegrino Terme
Province: Bergamo · 358 m
75 minutes from Milano. A Liberty-era spa town in the Val Brembana, built around sulfur springs that give the world its mineral water.
Bellagio
Province: Como · 229 m
76 minutes from Milano. On the promontory where Lake Como splits into three arms, with Villa Serbelloni on the high ground and Villa Melzi on the western shore.
Predore
Province: Bergamo · 198 m
76 minutes from Milano. A small village on the Bergamo shore, sitting on a Roman villa with intact thermal baths underneath.
Iseo
Province: Brescia · 198 m
78 minutes from Milano. The main town on the southeast shore of Lake Iseo, gateway to the Franciacorta sparkling wine country.
Dervio
Province: Lecco · 220 m
82 minutes from Milano. A peninsula on upper Lake Como's eastern shore at the Varrone delta, with a Romanesque bell tower and one of the lake's best sailing winds.
Varenna
Province: Lecco · 220 m
82 minutes from Milano. A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Montesegale
Province: Pavia · 400 m
83 minutes from Milano. A 258-person hill village at 400 meters, built around a castle that today holds a contemporary art collection.
Fortunago
Province: Pavia · 482 m
84 minutes from Milano. A 365-resident village on a 482-meter ridge, with stone façades, porphyry streets and the production zone of Salame di Varzi at its doorstep.
Tremezzina
Province: Como · 209 m
84 minutes from Milano. The 2014 merger of four Lake Como villages that holds Villa Carlotta, Isola Comacina and the UNESCO Sacro Monte di Ossuccio.
Menaggio
Province: Como · 203 m
89 minutes from Milano. On the western shore of Lake Como at the mouth of the Senagra, the lake's old Roman crossing point between Como, Bellagio and the Valtellina.
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Giano dell'Umbria
Province: Perugia
A hill commune between Foligno, Spoleto and Todi, anchored by a Romanesque abbey built over the tomb of a fourth-century martyr.
Assisi
Province: Perugia
A pink limestone town at 424 meters on the western flank of a mountain above the plain, the birthplace of Francis and a UNESCO site since 2000.
Servigliano
Province: Fermo
An eighteenth-century ideal city at 215 meters in the Tenna valley, rebuilt by papal commission on a 137-by-144-meter quadrangle after the old hill village collapsed.
Labro
Province: Rieti
A 355-person stone borgo at 628 meters, restored since the 1960s by a Belgian architect and his descendants.
San Nicola Arcella
Province: Cosenza
A cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where a sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.