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3 days in Milan

A complete 3-day Milan itinerary with 15 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
15
Time in transit
205 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 205 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 15 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 60 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 24 min by public transport

    Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie

    09:24–10:54 1 hr 30 min

  3. 15 min walk

    Sforzesco Castle

    11:09–12:54 1 hr 45 min

  4. 8 min walk

    Risoelatte Duomo

    13:02–13:32 30 min

  5. 9 min walk

    Duomo di Milano

    13:41–15:11 1 hr 30 min

  6. 4 min walk

    Piazza del Duomo

    15:15–17:00 1 hr 45 min

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 70 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 30 min by public transport

    Pinacoteca di Brera

    09:30–11:30 2 hr

  3. 8 min walk

    DeRos Restaurant

    12:08–12:38 30 min

  4. 11 min walk

    Parco Sempione

    12:49–14:49 2 hr

  5. 15 min by public transport

    Piazza Mercanti

    15:04–15:49 45 min

  6. 6 min walk

    Madonnina

    15:55–16:25 30 min

Day 3

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 75 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 18 min by public transport

    Piazza Gae Aulenti

    09:18–10:18 1 hr

  3. 23 min by public transport

    Branca Tower

    10:41–11:41 1 hr

  4. 11 min walk

    Taverna Trastevere Milano

    12:11–12:41 30 min

  5. 11 min walk

    Poldi Pezzoli Museum

    12:52–14:07 1 hr 15 min

  6. 12 min by public transport

    Piazza Castello Fountain

    14:19–14:49 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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