How to get to Milano

Milano is easy to reach by all means of transport, but is one of the most accessible cities in Europe in terms of air links:

3 international airports
87 direct destinations (72 from European Cities)
92 airlines
680 flights per day
30 million passengers per year

Access by air

Milano’s three airports, Malpensa, Linate and Orio al Serio, have flight connections to all gateways in the world.
Malpensa airport lies in the north-west, about 40 minutes from the city centre. All the international and most domestic flights take off and land here.
Linate airport, just 15 minutes from the centre, is the city airport. It is used by smaller aircraft, flying domestic and European routes.
Orio al Serio airport is located on the north-east border of the city, about 60 minutes form the city centre. It is Italy's first low-cost airport with many flights for Italian and European destinations.

Intercontinental flights

Airports-city connections

Connections to/from the airports are very convenient:

Malpensa
- 40 min by Malpensa Express train to the downtown (11 €)
- The Malpensa Shuttle Coach Buses connect each 20 minutes the Milano Central train station with Malpensa Airport (7.50 euro)
Linate
- just 15 min from the Duomo (city bus 1 €)

Orio al Serio
- 50 min by shuttle bus (6 €)

Access by rail

Milano has the major railway system in Northern Italy, at the center of important national and international lines. The main station is Milano Centrale, which is found very near to the center of the city. From here trains leave for all parts of Italy and so do international connections to France, Switzerland, and Germany.
The station of Milano Cadorna serves the Malpensa Express for the airport and the FNM regional direct trains to the north of Milano. The renovation of the Central Station is being planned Stazione Centrale

Access by road

Road distances to/from Milan	In Kilometers	In Miles
Amsterdam	1029	639
Barcelona	1045	649
Berlin	1174	729
Brussels	935	581
Copenhagen	1387	861
London	1167	725
Luxemburg	620	385
Madrid	1723	1070
Paris	887	551
Prague	873	542
Vienna	860	534
Warsaw	1594	990
Zurich	289	179

Milano has the biggest Italian highway system. Milano's ring road is the end point of highway A4 coming from Turin, of the A4 from Venice and Verona; of A1 connecting Milano and Bologna, Florence and Rome; the A7 coming from Genoa and Liguria; and the A8/A9 that go to Switzerland and to Lakes Como and Maggiore. The ring road is divided in Tangenziale Est and Tangenziale Ovest.

Transport within the city

tram Milano’s efficient and far-reaching public transport system makes moving around the city fast and easy:

4 subway lines (70 km of subway network)
2 subway lines under construction
1,300 km of public transport network
6,000 taxis

The Suburban Railway Service ( "S" Lines, a service similar to the French RER and German S-Bahn), composed of eight suburban lines with ten more scheduled for 2008, connects "Greater Milano" to cities such as Como and Varese. The Regional Railway Service ("R"), on the other hand, links Milano with the rest of Lombardy and the national railway system. The Passante ferroviario is an underground railway serving a couple of "S" lines and functions essentially like another subway line (and is even marked as such on subway maps), except that it is connected to LeNord and Trenitalia suburban networks.

Milano has three subway lines (M1 – red, M2 – green, M3 – yellow) in a system called Milano Metro – La Metrò or sometimes Il Metrò, with a network size of more than 80 km. There is also a light metro line, "Metrò S. Raffaele", connecting the San Raffaele Hospital with Cascina Gobba station (M2). Extensions of lines 1, 2 and 3 are under construction, which will create more than 15 km of track with 10 new stations. Line 5, linking San Siro sports stadium (in the west) with Viale Fulvio Testi (in the northeast), through the new City Life complex, is also under construction, and is expected to be finished during the first half of 2012. Line 4, merged with a proposed line 6, linking San Cristoforo railway station (southwest) with Linate Airport is in the planning stage.

The "Passante" is a railway tunnel under the city centre used by suburban trains, allowing passengers coming from the suburbs to change directly to the three (soon to be four) metro lines at Garibaldi, Repubblica, Porta Venezia and Rogoredo stations.
Greater Milano also has one of the most extensive tramway systems in the world, with more than 286 km of track and 20 lines.
Milano also has four trolleybus routes; included in the fleet are ten air-conditioned Cristalis trolleybuses.
Ninety-three bus lines cover over 1,070 km. The local transportation authority (ATM) transported more than 600 million passengers in 2003 .
Milano has a taxi service operated by private companies and licensed by the City of Milano (Comune di Milano). All taxis are the same color, white. Prices are based on a set fare at the beginning and an additional fare based on time elapsed and distance traveled. As the number of licences is kept low by lobbying of present taxi drivers and finding a taxi may be difficult in rush hours or rainy days, and almost impossible during public transportation strikes, which occur often.