On the western edge of Milan, a short drive from the centre, Acquatica Park is a summer water park that has been a favourite escape from the heat for residents of the city for more than thirty years. Eighteen attractions are spread across landscaped grounds, with slides, pools and shaded lawns laid out around two main areas geared respectively to young children and to thrill-seekers. The largest pool, the Aztec Lagoon, has a rocky waterfall feature and shallow areas suited to relaxed bathing, w.....

Opened to the public on 1 April 2025 in the restored Liberty-style buildings of the former De Montel stables in the San Siro district of Milan, De Montel Terme Milano is the largest urban thermal park in Europe, covering sixteen thousand square metres with ten geothermal pools fed from a hot spring nearly four hundred metres below ground. The site has an unexpected back story. The original stables were built in 1921 to designs by the architect Vietti Violi for the engineer and textile industria.....

Formally the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza but known to almost everyone as San Siro after the district of Milan in which it stands, this great cylindrical stadium is the largest football ground in Italy and the home of both AC Milan and Inter Milan, an unusual sharing arrangement that has lasted since 1947. The stadium currently seats around seventy-five thousand spectators across three steeply pitched tiers. The original ground on the site was built in 1925 to a much more modest design with a capacit.....