Multi-thematic itineraries

This Walking Tour will accompany you as you discover the three emblematic squares of the city of Milan: Piazza Duomo, Piazza della Scala, and Piazza dei Mercanti. It’s here, enclosed within a few hundred meters, that we can feel the beating of the generous and untiring heart of Milan, the city with the millennial past and the eternal future. Let’s go on this pleasant stroll together. It will be up to us to satisfy everyone’s tastes and indulge even the most curious visitors. We won’t be talking strictly history, but legends, technology, fashion, cuisine, and art. Above all, we’ll be telling you the unique adventures of those who experienced the growth of Milan and made it was it is today. Have a good time!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Throughout downtown Milan with Vittorio Sgarbi
One of the most important personalities of the Italian critics will take you through this Walking Tour dedicated to the works of art in Milan. An accurate selection, ranging from the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (next to da Vinci’s Last Supper) to the Pinacoteca (Art Gallery) in Brera, passing by the amazing perspectives of Santa Maria at San Satiro, the priceless collection of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and the vertiginous spires of the Milan Cathedral.

Main themes: Art and culture

How taking part in the Walking Tour:
Download the OpenCITY App, choose the interactive Walking Tour – then activate it through a code – and follow the virtual assistant who will lead you to discover the most suggestive places of the city. You will be able to manage the Walking Tour on your own: you can stop or restart it according to your personal demands.

Walking Tour Languages: Italian and English

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Enrico Derflingher, Executive Chef introduces us to some of the best restaurants, clubs and coffeehouses
Milan is a cosmopolitan city, friendly and constantly transforming itself, filled with unexpected itineraries and magical corners. Our “Spectacular Aperitifs and Dinners” Walking Tour is a unique culinary journey that will guide you in your discovery of some of the most remarkable bars and restaurants of Milan. The restaurants we’ve chosen for you are some of the greatest interpreters of our cuisine, capable of blending tradition and innovation and guiding their guests along an introspective voyage that embraces both science and spirit. To make the most of your Happy Hours, we’ve selected some really special lounge bars that enclose stories from the city and from far away places, guided by Mixology professionals and experts in the art of cocktail. The “Spectacular Aperitifs and Dinners” Walking Tour will allow you to admire Milan from unusual perspectives, experience multi-ethnical contexts, and taste delicate blends of tradition and modernity as you give joy to your palate.

Main themes: History, Legends, Technology, Fashion, Food and Art

How taking part in the Walking Tour:
Download the OpenCITY App, choose the interactive Walking Tour – then activate it through a code – and follow the virtual assistant who will lead you to discover the most suggestive places of the city. You will be able to manage the Walking Tour on your own: you can stop or restart it according to your personal demands.

Walking Tour Languages: Italian and English

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

This Walking Tour is dedicated to all the photography lovers who want to take a look at the city from exciting new angles and perspectives. Photographer Fulvio Bugani, ambassador for Leica Italia, will accompany you as you visit the most fascinating locations of Milan, offering suggestions, advice and technical tips. If you like to play with lights, contrasts and geometries, if you love details, if you want to create breathtaking pics or simply want to let yourself be charmed by the thousand lights of the city, follow us in this pleasant photographic stroll in the midst of social life, architecture, sports, and nature.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city, from a special photographic point of view. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Who says the hectic city of Milano, all asphalt and cement, has no places to relax surrounded by grass and trees? The Walking Tour called “The greenery you weren’t expecting” will reveal to you one of the lesser known faces of the city. Among all the imposing buildings and busy streets, there are lush gardens with ancient trees, pleasant green oases crossed by streams, historic botanical gardens and parks showcasing ultramodern landscaping designs. Treat yourself to a well-deserved break in the company of the advice offered by garden designer Mirco Colzani. No matter whether you’re an amateur gardener, a true expert in greenery and landscaping, or simply someone who enjoys spending time out in the open air, this walking tour will surely offer some magical surprises.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city, from a special photographic point of view. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Fashion is a material form of culture which has taken on a pivotal role in our society since the mid-twentieth century. But fashion has always been tied to the aesthetic and ethical values and to the expressive and artistic forms of each era. It’s an instrument that shapes bodies and suggests the standards of beauty. It’s a form of identity able to communicate messages, express social conformity or the very desire to change it. Our Milan is in Vogue Walking Tour offers a captivating interpretation of the multiple dimensions the fashion system has generated in Milan, from the birth of prêt-à-porter in the aftermath of WWII to the stylists who made Milan one of the world’s fashion capitals. You can develop your own original itinerary and follow it to your heart’s content, trusting your personal taste and aesthetics.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city, from a special photographic point of view. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

“Between Architecture and Design” will keep your nose pointing to the skies and your eyes filled with wonder. In addition to the great icons of contemporary architecture and the glistening new neighborhoods that project Milan into the future, you’ll discover corners of the city containing hidden architectural jewels designed by the pencils of geniuses, bits and pieces of ancient Milan that survived the Milanese fever for building, as well as small peaceful oases where you can treat yourself to a rest, mostly undisturbed. In Milan, surprises are never missing – this Walking Tour will make you discover how creativity can change the face of a city.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city, from a special photographic point of view. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Around with Lisa” is a Walking Tour with Lisa, a very distant relative of Leonardo, the genius who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper in Milan. Lisa is the friend in the cell phone taking the boys to a very surprising tour, to the discovery of the most beautiful stories, legends and curiosities of Milan. This tour and the relating map will allow them to discover the most amazing places of the city: from the Castello Sforzesco to the Museum of Natural History and the Duomo Cathedral. A route to enjoy in one breath, or whenever they wish or they have time enough. A tour they can live again at home or anytime they want to.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Today Milan is a big modern city, that keeps evolving. Here the cultural turmoil and the entrepreneurial spirit create a wide range of activities within the fashion, design and food industries, thus combining tradition and originality. These industries have been able to better read the concept “opening”, a cultural approach that produced the Milanese Renaissance.

We created six itineraries taking to the discovery of six city areas to find out all their secrets, from History of Art and culture to social interaction, from design to fashion.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

So who was the real Leonardo? What did he look like? And his character? What worried him and what was it like to live with these brilliant ideas that were so innovative for his time, perhaps even too innovative?

Choose to discover Leonardo’s genius through the works he left to the city of Milan, you will also discover the tributes that Milan has decided to dedicate to a personality that the whole world recognizes and honors.

This Walking Tour will take you to the most evocative places linked to the figure, history and works of Leonardo da Vinci in the city of Milan, but it will also allow you to discover the Grand Master a little more closely, not only as an incomparable artist and scientist, but above all as a man.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.

Renaissance Lombardy under Ludovico il Moro was populous and industrious, then as now, and the broad backdrop to the daily life of Leonardo da Vinci for about twenty years.

Following in Leonardo’s footsteps in Lombardy: discovering the secret places and their landscapes, between truth and mystery.

The Moor, as he was known, did not require the presence and ingenuity of the great Master only in Milan, but he needed him to travel throughout the Lombardardy, to inspect, assist, verify and solve problems of various kinds.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Free download OpenCITY App and buy the Walking Tour – activated through the code you will receive. Follow the virtual expert taking you to the discovery of the most beautiful and evocative places in the city. You will manage all the routes autonomously, having the chance to interrupt them or listen to them repeatedly. Even at home.

Read the information sheet to find out more about this Walking Tour.