Francesca's apartment is a lovely nest to rest in after spending the day exploring Milan. At the top of a mid-century residential building, it has balconies on both sides – from the western one, you can see a large part of the city skyline and even find a few spires of the Duomo. The fog didn't let us see the Alps, but they would certainly be visible in the summer.
This apartment is beautiful and comfortable, it has been lived in by its owner; it has a soul, a quality getting rarer by the day on Airbnb. You can browse the books – lots of classical and contemporary literature, most of it in Italian, some in English –, check the rock and roll records, admire the engravings of 19th century composers on the vestibule's wall. You can hear the rain on the window and the old tram passing by on the boulevard below. You can cook a nice meal in a gorgeous kitchen and sip tea in a sofa that will engulf you in its warmth. In the midst of the Northern metropolis, you can at last feel home.