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Metropolitan City of Milan

Coordinates: 45°27′51″N 9°11′25″E / 45.4642°N 9.1903°E / 45.4642; 9.1903
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Metropolitan City of Milan
Città metropolitana di Milano (Italian)
Cittaa metropolitana de Milan (Milanese)
Metropolitan City
Palazzo Isimbardi is the seat of the Metropolitan Council.
Palazzo Isimbardi is the seat of the Metropolitan Council.
Flag of Metropolitan City of Milan
Flag
Coat of arms of Metropolitan City of Milan
Coat of arms
Location of the Metropolitan City of Milan
Location of the Metropolitan City of Milan
Country Italy
Region Lombardy
Established1 January 2015
CapitalMilan
Comuni133
Government
 • Metropolitan MayorGiuseppe Sala
Area
 • Total
1,575 km2 (608 sq mi)
Population
 (March 2022)
 • Total
3,236,472
 • Density2,100/km2 (5,300/sq mi)
GDP
[1]
 • Metro€204.514 billion (2020)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISTAT215[2]
WebsiteMetropolitan City of Milan
Map of Metropolitan city of Milan.
Milan metropolitan area.

The Metropolitan City of Milan (Italian: città metropolitana di Milano; Milanese: cittaa metropolitana de Milan, Lombard: [tʃiˈtaː metrupuliˈtana de miˈlãː]) is a metropolitan city (not to be confused with the metropolitan area) in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is the second most populous metropolitan city in the nation after the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Its capital is the city of Milan. It replaced the province of Milan and includes the city of Milan and 132 other comuni (sg.: comune). It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since 1 January 2015.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19511,929,687—    
19612,494,598+29.3%
19713,087,296+23.8%
19813,139,490+1.7%
19913,009,338−4.1%
20012,940,579−2.3%
20113,038,420+3.3%
20213,214,630+5.8%
Source: ISTAT

The Metropolitan City of Milan is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (sindaco metropolitano) and by the Metropolitan Council (consiglio metropolitano). Since June 2016 Giuseppe Sala, as mayor of the capital city, has been the mayor of the Metropolitan City.

Government

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Metropolitan Council

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Milan is the economic capital of Italy,[3] and is a global financial centre and a fashion capital of the world.

The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better coordinating the municipalities in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection.[4] In this policy framework, the Mayor of Milan is designated to exercise the functions of Metropolitan mayor, presiding over a Metropolitan Council. The Council consists of mayors and city councillors of each comune in the Metropolitan City elected from amongst themselves using partially open list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method.[5] Metropolitan councillors are elected at-large for five-year terms; votes for metropolitan councillors are weighted by grouping comunes of a certain population range into nine groups so that votes of the mayors and city councillors of the more populous groups are worth than those of less populous groups.[5]

The first Metropolitan Council of the City was elected on 28 September 2014. The current Metropolitan Council of the City (2021–2026) was elected on 19 December 2021:[6]

Party Individual
votes 		% Electoral
votes 		% Seats
PD 648 43.14% 41,096 49.31%
13 / 24
FI 309 20.57% 13,729 16.47%
4 / 24
LN 246 16.38% 13,446 16.13%
4 / 24
FdI 181 12.05% 8,983 10.78%
2 / 24
AVS 102 6.79% 6,091 7.31%
1 / 24

The Metropolitan Council is seated at Palazzo Isimbardi, located in Milan.

List of Metropolitan Mayors of Milan

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  Metropolitan Mayor Term start Term end Party
1 Giuliano Pisapia 1 January 2015 21 June 2016 Ind
2 Giuseppe Sala 21 June 2016 Incumbent Ind

Municipalities

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See also: List of municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Milan
Naviglio Grande In Milan
Sesto San Giovanni
Cinisello Balsamo
Legnano
Rho
Paderno Dugnano
Cernusco sul Naviglio
Cologno Monzese

The most-populous municipalities within the Metropolitan City are:

Rank City Population Area
(km2) 		Density
(inhabitants/km2) 		Altitude
(mslm)
1st Milan 1,395,274 181.76 7355.2 122
2nd Sesto San Giovanni 81,750 11.74 6963.4 140
3rd Cinisello Balsamo 74,536 12.7 5869 154
4th Legnano 60,259 17.72 3357.3 199
5th Rho 51,033 22.32 2286.4 158
6th Paderno Dugnano 47,118 14.1 3386.5 163
7th Cologno Monzese 46,707 8.46 5659.6 134
8th Rozzano 41,581 13.01 3196.1 103
9th San Giuliano Milanese 37,235 30.71 1212.5 98
10th Segrate 36,911 17.5 1205.9 115
11th Bollate 36,204 13.1 2106.4 156
12th Pioltello 36,061 13.1 2102.9 122
13th Cernusco sul Naviglio 34,848 13.2 1997 134
14th Corsico 34,373 5.4 11875.6 115
15th Abbiategrasso 32,425 47.8 142 120

The full list is:

Municipal government

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Palazzo Marino, Milan City Hall

Here is a list of the municipal government in cities and towns with more than 15,000 inhabitants:

Municipality Mayor   Party Executive Term
Milan Giuseppe Sala Ind PD • EV • A • IV 2021–2026
Sesto San Giovanni Roberto Di Stefano LN FI • LN • FdI 2022–2027
Cinisello Balsamo Giacomo Giovanni Ghilardi LN FI • LN • FdI 2023–2028
Legnano Lorenzo Radice PD PD • Ind 2020–2025
Rho Andrea Orlandi PD PD • Ind 2021–2026
Paderno Dugnano Anna Varisco PD PD • SI 2024–2029
Cologno Monzese Stefano Zanelli PD PD • M5S • AVS 2023–2028
Rozzano Giovanni Ferretti De Luca LN FI • LN • FdI 2024–2029
San Giuliano Milanese Giacomo Giovanni Ghilardi FI FI • LN • FdI 2021–2026
Segrate Paolo Micheli PD PD • Ind 2020–2025
Bollate Franco Vassallo PD PD • SI 2020–2025
Pioltello Ivonne Cosciotti PD PD • Ind 2021–2026
Cernusco sul Naviglio Ermanno Zacchetti PD PD • Ind 2022–2027
Corsico Stefano Martino Ventura PD PD • Ind 2020–2025
Abbiategrasso Francesco Cesare Nai Ind FI • LN • FdI 2022–2027

Transport

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Main article: Transport in Milan
Carsharing cars in Piazza Duca d'Aosta

Milan is one of the key transport nodes of Italy and southern Europe. Its central railway station is Italy's second, after Rome Termini railway station, and Europe's eighth busiest.[7][8] The Malpensa, Linate and Orio al Serio airports serve the Greater Milan, the largest metropolitan area in Italy.

Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM) is the Milanese municipal transport company; it operates 5 metro lines, 18 tram lines, 131 bus lines, 4 trolleybus lines and 1 people mover line, carrying about 776 million passengers in 2018.[9] Overall the network covers nearly 1,500 km (932 mi) reaching 46 municipalities.[10] Besides public transport, ATM manages the interchange parking lots and other transport services including bike sharing and carsharing systems.[11]

Cycling

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BikeMi station and bikes along Corso Garibaldi

The bicycle is becoming an increasingly important mode of transportation in Milan. Since 2008, the implementation of a city-wide network of bike paths has been initiated, to fight congestion and air pollution. During the COVID pandemic in 2019, 35 km of bike lanes were realized on short notice, to relieve pressure on the subway occupation.[12]

The bike sharing system BikeMi has been deployed in almost all the city and enjoys increasing popularity. Stationless commercial bike and scooter sharing systems are widely available.

Rail

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Underground

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Milan Metro is the largest rapid transit system in Italy in terms of length, number of stations and ridership; and the fifth longest in the European Union and the eighth in the Europe.[13]

The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving the city and surrounding municipalities. The network consists of 5 lines (M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5), with a total network length of 104 kilometres (65 mi), and a total of 121 stations, mostly underground.[14] It has a daily ridership of 1.15 million,[15] the largest in Italy as well as one of the largest in Europe.

The architectural project of the Milan Metro, created by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, and the signs, designed by Bob Noorda, received the Compasso d'Oro award in 1964.[16] Within the European Union it is the seventh-largest network in terms of kilometres.[17]

Suburban

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A TSR train at Milano Porta Venezia railway station on the Milan Passerby Railway

As of May 2023, the Milan suburban railway service, operated by Trenord, comprises 11 S lines connecting the metropolitan area with the city centre, with possible transfers to all the metro lines. Most S lines run through the Milan Passerby Railway, commonly referred to as "il Passante" and served by double-decker trains every 4/8 minutes in the central underground section.[18] The system comprises 12 lines serving 124 stations, for a total length of 403 km.[19] There are 415 trains per day with a daily ridership of about 230,000.[20] The service timetable is based on a clock-face scheduling. Although operated by different companies, the Milan Metro and the suburban rail service have integrated tickets.

National and international trains

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Milano Centrale railway station

Milan Central station, with 110 million passengers per year, is the largest and eighth-busiest railway station in Europe and the second busiest in Italy after Roma Termini.[7] Milano Centrale railway station is the largest railway station in Europe by volume.[21] Milano Cadorna and Milano Porta Garibaldi stations are, respectively, the seventh- and the eleventh-busiest stations in Italy.[7] Since the end of 2009, two high-speed train lines link Milan to Rome, Naples and Turin, considerably shortening travel times with other major cities in Italy. Further high-speed lines are under construction towards Genoa and Verona. Milan is served by direct international trains to Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Lugano, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Zurich and Frankfurt, and by overnight sleeper services to Munich and Vienna (ÖBB).[22] Overnight services to Paris were suspended in 2020 following the COVID lockdown and subsequently discontinued.[23][24]

Milan is also the core of Lombardy's regional train network. Regional trains were operated on two different systems by LeNord (departing from Milano Cadorna) and Trenitalia (departing from Milan Centrale and Milano Porta Garibaldi). Since 2011 Trenord, has operated both Trenitalia and LeNord regional trains in Lombardy, carrying over 750,000 passengers on more than 50 routes every day.[25][26]

Buses and trams

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Intersecting trams under the arcs of Porta Nuova medieval gate. This type of historical trams are also used in San Francisco, United States[27]

The city tram network consists of approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) of track and 18 lines, and is Europe's most advanced light rail system.[28] Bus lines cover over 1,070 km (665 mi). Milan also has taxi services operated by private companies and licensed by the City Council of Milan. The city is also a key node for the national road network, being served by all the major highways of Northern Italy. Numerous long-distance bus lines link Milan with many other cities and towns in Lombardy and throughout Italy.[29]

Airports

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Milan Malpensa Airport
Departures area of the Milan Bergamo Airport

In the surroundings of Milan there are three airports dedicated to normal civilian traffic (Milan Malpensa Airport and Milan Linate Airport, managed by SEA, and Milan Bergamo Airport by SACBO).

Overall, the Milan airport system handles traffic of over 51.4 million passengers and around 700,000 tons of goods every year and is the first in Italy in terms of passenger volume and cargo volume (the second Italian airport system is Rome with 44.4 million passengers in 2023).[30] The Milan Malpensa airport, with over 700 thousand tons, confirms the national leadership, processing 70% of the country's air cargo.[31]

Lastly, Bresso Airfield is a general aviation airport, operated by Aero Club Milano.[42] Since 1960 the airport mostly serves as a general aviation airfield for flying club activity, touristic flights and air taxi.[43] It also hosts a base of the state helicopter emergency service Elisoccorso.[44]

See also

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