10% off your stay when you book with Booking.com? Use my link (and I get cashback, too). I stayed at Milano Ostello, Viale Monza 38.

Just one day in Milan, which took me on a run in the North West, from Pasteur metro station NE then back down through Parco Lambro, and then a walk from Pasteur into the centre, via Indro Montanelli Park (one of Milan’s many beautiful and spacious parks – seriously, just wander from park to park on a warm day and you’ll be happy). I managed to drag myself from the park before the day ended and headed past the Cathedral (Il Duomo), then West because Cairoli Castello distracted me as I meant to head South. The sightlines are much more Paris (long, clear roads with sights at the end) than London (buildings everywhere with gems hidden behind them).

River Lambro.

Parco Lambro.

Indro Montanelli Park.

Colours in Indro Montanelli Park.

Tall tree, Indro Montanelli Park.

Statue, Palazzo del Senato, Milan.

Il Duomo, Milan.

Statue of the first king of a united Italy who ruled from 1861-1878.

Cairoli Castello and Decathlon.

A series of small walls.

Sculpture museum in deconsecrated church.

Basilica San Lorenzo Maggiore.

Milan through a gateway, Corso di Porta Ticinese.

Archway on pillars.