This is the ultimate apartment to stay in Italy, it topped my list of the 5 places I stayed at when I was in Italia for the last 4 weeks. The area is safe, 1 minute walk to the tues and sat morning local markets where the streets are closed to cars and you can buy everything you need to cook up an Italian feast in the great kitchen in the apartment! You must try the roast chicken from one of the shops at the markets! Walking distance to train station Zara, yellow line metro which will take you to Duomo station in less than 15mins (I think it is 5 stops)... If you prefer less walking to the train station then it is a shorter walk to Milano Porto garibaldi station, or walk to get the 82 bus to Milano Centrale, takes about 10mins. Great restaurants in the area, great icecream a few doors down at Leonard, they have a delish zero latte cioccolato flavour which is great! Walking distance to explore the new area in Milan Porto nuova with new opening shops including Costume Nationale and you can easily 10 min walk over to railway tracks of Milano Porto garibaldi to 10 corso Como - designer shopping and lots of new bars and eateries in this area also! The apartment is spotlessly clean. Everything works! The host is a great communicator, Carlo has lots of information about Milan and other parts of Italy in his lovely Library in the living room. There is information on all of the galleries in Milan and other regions too including Firenze etc and some useful maps. The style of the apartment is very close to my own individual style and I absolutely love the mix of Art Deco period pieces and modern contemporary art mmmm Kartell! - it was a delight and inspiring coming back to the apartment every day after a busy day in Milan. The queen bed is comfortable, 2 choices of pillow types, the shower has good water pressure and instantaneous gas hot water means no cold spots which is fairly common in Italy :(((( Milan is organised, full of style and lovely people, has great food, much more reliable to get a great meal here at a walk-in restaurant than compared with Roma! My favourite food places were: the isola markets, Peck near duomo, Osteria Borsieri local near apartment, Biancolatte via Turati metro stop, Papermoon next to San Babila metro, Osteria del Binari otherside of Milano - get a taxi here. Overall this apartment is an amazing one to see Milan. And I would highly recommend using it as a European base for a month or two, rent it out and explore the rest of Italy and some other parts of Europe whilst having the convenience of coming back to a great base! You may not ever want to leave, I felt like a local! I will be telling all my friends :))) Thanks Carlo and Marcelo -...