Travel Reference
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The opera season runs from November through July, but you can see theatre, ballet and
concerts at Teatro alla Scala year-round, with the exception of August.
San Siro Stadium
(Stadio Giuseppe Meazza; 02 404 24 32;
www.sansiro.net
;
Via dei Piccolomini 5, museum admission
€7, plus guided tour adult/reduced €13/10; nonmatch days 10am-6pm; Lotto)
The city's two
football clubs are the 1899-established AC Milan, owned by former prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi, and the 1908-established FC Internazionale Milano (aka 'Inter'). They play at
the stadium on alternate Sundays during the season. Guided tours of the stadium, built in
the 1920s, take you behind the scenes to the players' locker rooms and include a visit to
the
Museo Inter e Milan
( 02 404 2432;
www.sansiro.net
;
Gate 21, Via Piccolomini 5; museum & tour
adult/concession €13/10; 10am-6pm, tours every 20 mins; ; Lotto, 16, shuttle from Piazzale
Lotto to the stadium)
, a shrine of memorabilia, papier-mâché caricatures of players, and film
footage. Take tram 24, bus 95, 49 or 72, or the metro to the Lotto stop, from where a free
bus shuttles to the stadium.
FOOTBALL
Shopping
Beyond the hallowed streets of the Quadrilatero d'Oro, designer outlets and chains can be
found along Corso Buenos Aires and Corso Vercelli; younger, hipper labels along Via
Brera and Corso Magenta; while Corso di Porta Ticinese and Navigli are home of the Mil-
an street scene and subculture shops. For cutting-edge talent and great bargains venture
down the up-and-coming Via Tortona.
DON'T MISS
QUADRILATERO D'ORO
For anyone interested in the fall of a frock or the cut of a jacket, a stroll around the
Quadrilatero
must. This quaintly cobbled quadrangle of streets may have always been synonymous with elegance
and money (Via Monte Napoleone was where Napoleon's government managed loans), but the Quad's
legendary fashion status belongs firmly to Milan's postwar reinvention. During the boom years of the
1950s the city's fashion houses established ateliers in the area bounded by Via Monte Napoleone, Via
Sant'Andrea, Via della Spiga and Via Alessandro Manzoni and by the 1960s Milan had outflanked
Florence and Rome to become the country's haute couture capital. Nowadays, the world's top design-
ers unveil their women's collections in February/March and September/October, while men's fashion
hits the runways in January and June/July.
