Milan neighbourhoods
CityLife
Three skyscrapers, a large park and luxury homes on the old trade-fair grounds.
- Market
- None on the street
- Transport
- M5 Tre Torri, M5 Portello, M1 Amendola / Buonarroti; trams 16, 19; bus 78
- District
- 8
What it's like
CityLife stands between corso Sempione, viale Duilio and piazza VI Febbraio, on the site where for almost a century Milan's trade fair was held, before it moved to Rho in 2005.
The district is organised around three skyscrapers with nicknames that have stuck: the Straight One by Arata Isozaki, the Twisted One by Zaha Hadid and the Curved One by Daniel Libeskind.
At their feet is a shopping district, partly underground and partly open-air, and the curving residences designed by Hadid and Libeskind.
Its public heart is the CityLife park, the third-largest in the inner city, pedestrian and cycle-friendly, with contemporary artworks scattered across the lawns.
It is not a historic quarter and has no street market, but it quickly became a place Milanese people go to walk on a Sunday.
The market
This neighbourhood has no weekly open-air street market. The nearest ones are in the neighbourhoods below.
Green space and the outdoors
Dog areas
- giardino Salvador Allende · 945 m²
- piazzale Chiesa Damiano · 337 m²
- piazza Giulio Cesare · 1008 m²
- parco Valentino Bompiani · 4363 m²
- parco Guido Vergani · 2045 m²
- piazza Firenze · 726 m²
Playgrounds
- via Demetrio Stratos · 1267 m²
- piazzale Arduino · 283 m²
- giardino Salvador Allende · 231 m²
- via Gattamelata n. 22 · 943 m²
- piazzale Chiesa Damiano · 403 m²
- piazza Giulio Cesare · 753 m²
Where to eat and drink
CityLife's dining is almost all inside the shopping district: chains, burgers, sushi, a food court and a few restaurants on the upper level with tables facing the park.
For a street market the nearest is Pagano / Piazza Prealpi, towards the centre, or the Piazza Wagner covered municipal market.
Getting there
The lilac M5 stops at Tre Torri, right under the shopping district, and at Portello on the north side. The red M1 passes just to the south with Amendola and Buonarroti.
On the surface there are trams 16 and 19. The whole district is pedestrian, with no cars at street level.
M5 Tre Torri, M5 Portello, M1 Amendola / Buonarroti; trams 16, 19; bus 78
Frequently asked questions
What is there at CityLife in Milan?
The three towers by Isozaki, Hadid and Libeskind, the shopping district with shops and restaurants, the curving residences, a cinema, and the public CityLife park with open-air artworks. Everything is pedestrian.
How to get to CityLife?
By the lilac M5, Tre Torri stop, which comes out directly into the shopping district. Alternatively the M1 at Amendola or Buonarroti, then a ten-minute walk through the park.
Nearby neighbourhoods
Data: City of Milan — weekly open-air markets (DS291), CC-BY. Reviewed .